Magufuli promises to end sugar price fixing

London’s century-old gold price fixing, tainted by a rigging scandal and attacked by critics as old-fashioned, goes under the spotlight this week in key talks aimed at modernising the process.

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The price of sugar has increased by 25 per cent per kilogramme in Moshi as importers are allegedly hoarding the commodity to create an artificial shortage.

Hamad Promises End to Economic Hardships
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Zanzibar — FIRST Vice-President, Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad has said that economic challenges facing many people in Zanzibar will end only if his party takes over leadership. "You need to take bold decision of making sure that the Civic United Front (CUF) ...

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Chadema promises to end shortage of school desks
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Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) parliamentary contestant for Bunda Urban constituency Esther Bulaya has promised to address the shortage of desks in schools. Addressing a rally at the old bus stand grounds here yesterday Bulaya said ...

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Candidate promises to end Kibamba water woes
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Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) parliamentary candidate for Kibamba constituency in Dar es Salaam, Dr Fenella Mukangara has pledged to end water woes in the area within six months soon after election. Dr Mukangara made the pledge at the weekend in Dar ...

TRA vows to end sugar smuggling
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The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has vowed to end smuggling of sugar and various other goods into the country, a crime it believes is the work of a syndicate of dishonest traders and public officers. The watchdog agency has admitted that this is a ...

Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has called for integrated efforts to control current rampant sugar smuggling after it seized 40 bags of the commodity offshore at Kunduchi area last week.

The concern by MPs, especially those who hail from constituencies where sugarcane is a major cash crop, are agitating for a curb in sugar importation and on the outset, their concern makes a lot of sense. Tanzania is blessed with a climate and soils that are optimally good for sugarcane farming, which means we should boast as global supplier of the sweetening product whose global demand is insatiable.