Parliament set to go digital

Protesters angry at plans to allow Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule set fire to parliament and city hall in the capital, Ouagadougou

The East African Community (EAC) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Bill, 2012, will be among three to be tabled during the regional parliament session which starts in Kampala today.

>Parliament reconvenes today with MPs scheduled to debate the current government budget funding crisis.

East African Legislative Assembly
East African Legislative Assembly, Brussels, Belgium, October 8, 2014: A delegation of EALA legislators arrived in Brussels yesterday ready for a five day benchmarking visit.
The benchmarking visit will see the EALA meet and exchange ideas with Parliamentarians and key officials of the European Parliament and the European Commission respectively. The delegation which is headed by the EALA Speaker, Rt. Hon Margaret Nantongo Zziwa, consists of Members of the...

 Since December 31, 2012 Tanzania started migrating from analogue to digital broadcasting. The implementation has been successful by 100% which makes Tanzania the first country in the East African Community (EAC) and Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) to meet the deadline imposed by the International Telecommunication Unity (ITU). In fostering this process StarTimes in partnership with SmartCodes is now running a campaign which offers an added value to digital...

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?.

Bernard Konga
Director Genera, National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF)

The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) Director-General  Bernard Konga has announced that the Fund is finalizing the digital payment system solution that will reduce the Medical Services Providers' settlement claims from 45 to 14 days.
Speaking at an online CRDB Bank webinar branded  "Afya Forum," that brought together all key players of the Tanzania Health sector, Konga who is an economist by trade, revealed that NHIF had...

Unquestionably, Tanzania has done much in expediting information communication technology (ICT) development countrywide. There are key ICT developments that could be discerned. Moreover, Tanzania has considerably reduced the cost of services towards improving affordability of ICT services.

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