TAGALILE: Polls are six months away; are we really ready?

South African Broadcasting Corporation
Tanzania getting ready for polls
South African Broadcasting Corporation
Ending Corruption and improving the economy are the two greatest concerns for Tanzanians as they head towards elections on Sunday. Current President Jakaya Kikwete will step down, next week after serving out a two-term limit. But opinion polls show a ...

Get Ready for Polls, Says ZEC
AllAfrica.com
Zanzibar — THE elections are now just around the corner, and although many of Zanzibar residents have registered to vote, a considerable number will miss the opportunity because the registration of new voters has been closed. "It was a successful ...
ZEC increases four more constituenciesDaily News

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Daily News
... Constitution will be ready before 2015 polls
Daily News
THE process of writing the new Constitution shall be accomplished fully before the country goes to the general elections next year, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, has said. Speaking on Thursday, Mr Pinda said it was the intention of the government to ...

>Strife-torn Burundi cannot hold polls now because of security concerns, Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation  minister Bernard Membe said in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

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ACT Zanzibar: Were ready for repeat presidential polls
IPPmedia
Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo) in Zanzibar has said it will take part in the Isles presidential re-election after the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) nullified it late last month. Speaking to 'The Guardian' yesterday on the ...

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First batch of 34 European Union observers arrives ready for polls
IPPmedia
Thirty-four long-term observers from the European Union (EU) Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Tanzania have arrived in Dar es Salaam for the General Election scheduled for October 25. According to a statement availed to The Guardian yesterday ...
EU long-term election observers arriveDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)
Tanzania National Electoral Commission approve 23.7m...

>I was comforted this week when I realised I wasn’t the only one questioning the borrowing of $7.6 billion (Sh14 trillion) for the construction of 2,561km standard gauge railway line to replace the existing Central Line. The Citizen did so through its well-argued editorial in its March 31 edition.

>The Deputy CCM Secretary General, Mr Mwigulu Nchemba, was on Monday this week quoted by The Citizen as saying it was wrong for voters to punish CCM candidates in the just-ended civic elections on account of the escrow scam.

>Since the start of 2015, nothing has dominated the print media more than the race for the Union presidency. Tanzanians seeking the highest post in the country have been turning out very good copy for the print media.