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Vice President, Dr Mohamed Gahrib Bilal speaks to the Country Director for Restless Development Tanzania, Margaret Mliwa (R) and the Africa Executive Director of the ONE Campaign Dr Sipho S. Moyo. A new study by Brookings researchers shows that ...

>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.

Most Dar es Salaam residents are trapped in the vicious cycle of ill-health, urban-poverty and ignorance. A good testimony to this reality is the recent cholera outbreak, which was first reported in the city before it spread to other regions in the country.

>Anna (not her real name) is a Form One student at Ntuzu Secondary School at Ngulyati Village in Bariadi District.However, she is in pain after being raped, something which has spoiled her dream of acquiring a better education to safeguard her future.

>Most of the more than 1,600 most vulnerable children (MVC) in Pemba and Unguja islands are now able to access education following a resource mobilisation training carried out by the Building Organizational Capacity for Results (Bocar)

>“Knowledge is at the heart of social and economic growth. Knowledge relies heavily on shared cultural heritage and on openness to the unknown. To that end, artists have a special role as social barometers, as promoters of change and as repository of tradition…” – (Marina Galvani, ‘Tanzania Knowledge is at the heart of development’—A letter from the head curator of the World Bank art program to the National Arts Council).

>Rukwa Region enjoys tropical climate with mean temperatures ranging between 13 degrees centigrade in some places for the months of June and July to 27 degrees centigrade in the hottest months of October to December.

>The thriving but unregulated local brick-making business, currently a matter of major concern among builders, is driven by lack of a national housing and building policy, experts have said.

>Internet users all over the country have reason to rejoice, as they can look forward to something groundbreaking. The next big thing in terms of communication- and Internet service provision –the 4G LTE technology – was recently introduced in Tanzania, the first country on the continent.