Parliament help sought in ending Uda controversy

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Speaker directs probe into UDA ownership controversy
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A few days after the government and Simon Group - each claimed the ownership of Dar es Salaam Transport Company (UDA); the Parliament has now directed Parliamentary Committee on Ethics, Privilege and Powers to conduct a thorough investigation of ...

Notes from a presentation on June 30 2014 at Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, local seminar for all Zambian Members of Parliament (Lusaka).

Download How can Parliament develop effective ways of dealing with the Media to ensure strong advocacy for coverage of Parliament?.

For the first time in the history and development of Constitutions in Tanzania, a final Draft Constitution has included in it the death penalty and how it can be executed by the Head of State. All Constitutions before and after independence have never included in their Articles a crime of murder or any other crime, whose penalty is death.

Controversy over identity cards continues
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MEMBERS of the Zanzibar House of Representatives from the Civic United Front (CUF) are complaining over the difficulties facing their party members in obtaining the national identity card. Mr Saleh Nassor Juma (CUF-Wawi) said people, particularly those ...

The government has denied reports that MPs will receive Sh160 million each in send-off allowances in 2015. Cabinet Minister William Lukuvi yesterday described the reports as baseless and misinformed.

 Parliament is a House divided over a report in a British newspaper that accuses President Jakaya Kikwete’s government of poaching.

Ugandan row over crackdown on hotels for affairs

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Tanzania's Maasai land sale controversy
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Tanzania has been accused of reneging on its promise to 40,000 Maasai pastoralists by going ahead with plans to evict them and turn their ancestral land into a reserve for the royal family of Dubai to hunt big game. Activists celebrated last year when the ...
Rich Gulf Arabs using Tanzania as a playground? Someone opened the gateThe Guardian
Tanzania evicting 40000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal ...Salon
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Controversy as Cheyo differs with Ukawa on CA suspension
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The call for President Jakaya Kikwete to suspend the ongoing Constituent Assembly (CA) recants what was agreed upon when he last met members of Tanzania Centre for Democracy who include those of Ukawa. This was said yesterday by the Chairman of ...
Cheyo - Ukawa a Bunch of Hypocrites!AllAfrica.com

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