Local banks told to help economic processing zones

Dodoma. Since Tanzania enacted the Foreign Exchange Act in 1992 that allowed individuals to keep foreign currencies, Tanzanians now hold $2.8 billion in foreign currencies deposited in local commercial banks, according to the Bank of Tanzania.

Local govt authorities told to go electronic
Daily News
LOCAL government authorities countrywide have been advised to adopt the electronic revenue collection system, to boost returns and control the habitual carbon-paper cheats. Opening the 31st Annual Meeting of the Association of Local Authorities in ...

The EAC Secretary General Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera make his remarks East African Community Secretariat, Arusha, Tanzania, 19 March 2014: A two-day workshop themed Cross Border Local Economic Development-Synergy Perspectives for Joint Action between Local Governments and Regional Integration Organizations in EAC and West African Economic and Monetary Union (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine - UEMOA) is underway at the Mt. Meru Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania.
The workshop's core...

Teachers told to design relevant local teaching aids
Daily News
TEACHERS attending the Literacy and Numeracy Education Support (LANES) programme here have been challenged to be innovative by designing teaching aids according to their environment. Speaking at the ongoing training, Director of the Centre for ...

>Tanzanian shilling has been declining in relation to the major global currencies such as the US dollar in the recent past. In the week starting January 19, 2015 we observed the exchange rate of $1 for over Sh1,800.

>Rukwa Region, located in south-western Tanzania 1,200 kilometres from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, will throughout this week be in local and international headlines as it showcases its investment opportunities which are in abundance.

Public varsities planned for all zones
Daily News
THE government contemplates the possibility of putting up higher learning institutions in zones where there isn't any public university to speed up development. A statement issued by the Directorate of Presidential Communications in Dar es Salaam ...

Huffington Post
Using DNA evidence to pinpoint poaching zones
Mongabay.com
A study published last week in Science showed that most of the ivory being trafficked today comes from two areas in Africa: savanna elephant ivory from southeast Tanzania in East Africa and forest elephant ivory from the meeting point of Gabon, the ...
Ivory Belongs on the Front of ElephantsHuffington Post
Genetic maps target ivory black marketSciDev.Net

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