SA strike forces GM plant closure

East African Business Week
Looting fears forces Tanzania business closure
East African Business Week
STANDSTILL: Voting was relatively peaceful but many business owners said they would resume operations after being assured of peace. (COURTESY PICTURE). DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Quick footed entrepreneurs and bigger enterprises are renting ...

The Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) has suspended its operations between Dar es Salaam and Tunduma following a workers’ strike that started on Monday.

Oscar Pistorius' siblings describe their heartache and criticise media coverage of his trial, on the eve of the South African athlete's sentencing.

New `international` varsity faces closure
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The recently established Tanzania International University (TIU) is ineptly operating under-camouflage of provisional license with university examinations conducted without lectures or tutors setting the papers, it has been learnt. One of the rebelling tutors at ...

The manager of a radio station in Somalia tells the BBC he is in hiding after the authorities took it off air, accusing it of spreading hate messages.

Tanzania MP queries Bologonja closure
East African Business Week
MWANZA, Tanzania – The government has been advised to carry out research in order to establish the advantages and disadvantages of continued closure of Bologonja border post. An in-depth independent research that would involve Tanzania experts ...

Schools in Sierra Leone are to reopen in March, eight months after they were closed because of the Ebola outbreak, officials announce.

AMI Hospital or Trauma Center at Msasani Dar es Salaam is facing imminent closure after it failed to comply by Tanzania Court of Appeal order that wanted it to deposit in court USD 1,514,000 plus a monthly rent to a tune of USD 64,000 per month following a tenancy agreement dispute.
A panel of three Court of Appeal judges, Justices Mbarouk Mbarouk, Salum Massati and Katherine Oriyo ordered African Medical Investments (T) Ltd (AMAI) to make the deposits a month after the ruling which was...

Tanzania Ready to Review Border Closure
East African Business Week
Mwanza — Tanzania government is reviewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in 1985 with Kenya over a tourist border entry point at Bologonja, Northern Tanzania. This is a follow-up from the February 20, 2014 resolution of ministers for ...