Country Profile: Tanzania

TWIGA Stars are set to leave the country on Sunday for Washington DC in the US for a two-week training tour to shape up for the Africa women championship finals planned for October.

THE Tanzania Sports Writers Association (TASWA) Football Club on Thursday received 4, 875,000/- from the Tanzania Breweries Limited to enable its team take part in the forth coming sports bonanza for journalists in Arusha.

THE Tanzania National Business Council (TNBC) will take part in the Nane Nane Agricultural show which begins in Dodoma on Sunday, under theme of Kilimo Kwanza.

TANZANIA hopes for medals at the ongoing 17 edition of the African Senior Athletics Championship were dashed on Thursday after her 800-metres runners were eliminated in the semifinals.

Tanzania's Fabian Joseph Naasi beat the Commonwealth Games 10,000 metre mark easily despite finishing seventh in the African Senior Athletics Championship in Nairobi on Wednesday.

Tanzania has allowed East African Breweries Limited to buy a controlling stake in Serengeti Breweries, handing the Kenyan firm a key weapon in the ongoing battle for control of the neighbouring country’s beer market.

Tanzanian Fair Competition Commission (FCC) has approved East African Breweries Ltd (EABL) acquisition of a majority interest in Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL).

Born Fauz Bashir to a Ugandan mother and a Tanzanian father in Kenya, Faizel MC lived in Uganda all his life where he completed his secondary education until he moved to Namibia.

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who is Asia's richest man, has joined the race to buy the assets of the British Petroleum (BP) Company in Tanzania and three other African countries.

Exaclty how's the economy of Tanzania doing on the ground? What's the truth regarding, say, macroeconomic performance: economics in terms of whole systems, especially as they relate to general levels of output and income - and to the intermediations among the various sectors?

The Tanzania Posts Corporation (TPC) is repositioning itself to challenges posed by the advent of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which saw a significant drop in domestic letter postal volumes in the past two decades. The newly appointed TPC director general, Mr Deos Mndeme, said in Arusha City recently that the state-run institution would embrace necessary ICTs to improve its efficiency.

Priscus Mareshi, 38, no longer runs away from Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) officials, thanks to formalisation of his shoe making business through the Business Development Gateway (BDG) programme.

NATIONAL Microfinance Bank (NMB) has donated 35m/- in support to the Tanzania Agricultural Society (TAS) which is organising the annual Farmers' Day (Nane Nane) celebrations and exhibitions at national level in Dodoma.

TANZANIA exported goods worth 4,983.8 million US dollars for the year ended May, 2010, representing a rise of 11.8 per cent compared to the corresponding period in 2009.

TANZANIA started on a wrong foot its campaign for laurels at the 17th Senior Africa Athletics Champions, after all her 100-metre sprinters failed to qualify for the semi-finals.

As the President of the United Republic of Tanzania from 1961 to 1985 - and even afterwards - until his demise in 1999, Julius Kambarage Nyerere continued to challenge the church and other religious denominations to what he described as 'recognizing their role in social change.'

A TOTAL of 7,121,188.70 kgs of tea was sold on Monday at the Mombasa Tea auction in Kenya, where 264,932 kgs was from Tanzania.