:: Habari Duniani: Tanzania

Showing posts with label Tanzania. Show all posts

KWA NINI HIZI SHULE ZIMEPEWA HAYA MAJINA?

SHULE YA MSINGI MADUDU

SHULE YA MSINGI KITOBO

SHULE YA MSINGI MKUNWA

SHULE YA MSINGI KITUMBO

SHULE YA MSINGI MPIGAMITI

SHULE YA MSINGI PENZI

SHULE YA MSINGI SHOGA

SHULE YA MSINGI UFALA

Matokeo ya Kidato cha Sita yametangazwa rasmi na Baraza la Mitihani la Taifa (NECTA).

MATOKEO YA KIDATO CHA SITA

BOFYA HAPA KUYAONA

A LEVEL RESULTS 2015 ACSEE

ACSEE 2015 EXAMINATION RESULTS

CLICK HERE TO SEE RESULTS

ACACIA TAX FEUD: EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN MET WITH TANZANIA PRESIDENT

Tanzania’s President met with Barrick Gold Corp. Executive Chairman John Thornton in an effort to resolve an impasse between the government and Acacia Mining Plc, of which Barrick is a majority shareholder.

Barrick Gold Corp. Executive Chairman with Tanzania President

“As the negotiations have yet to commence, no agreements have been reached,” Acacia said in a statement Wednesday. “The negotiations will seek a resolution that is in the best interests of all stakeholders.”

Earlier, Tanzania’s presidency said Thornton had already had an initial meeting with President John Magufuli in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, and that Barrick is willing to reimburse money that’s owed to the government. Magufuli has accused Acacia of failing to pay billions of dollars of taxes. Acacia surged as much as 11 percent in London.

“Thornton said his company is ready to hold talks with Tanzania that will consider the interests of both sides and is ready to pay all the money it’s expected to pay Tanzania,” Magufuli’s office said. The government welcomes such talks and will establish a panel of experts to negotiate how the company will pay the money and how it will conduct future operations in the country, according to the statement.

Barrick confirmed the meeting but not the details of what, if anything, had been agreed.

Barrick Gold Corp. Executive Chairman with Tanzania President

The meeting took place two days after the Tanzanian leader accused Acacia of operating illegally and demanded it remit unpaid taxes. The accusation followed an audit of the country’s mineral exports over the past 19 years that found mining companies failed to remit taxes of as much as 108.5 trillion shillings ($48.5 billion) since 1998.

Toronto-based Barrick, which owns 64 percent of Acacia, also agreed on Wednesday to help Tanzania build a smelter, according to the presidency’s statement, which didn’t provide further details.

“The meeting was constructive and open, with the parties agreeing to enter into negotiations to seek a resolution that is in the best interests of all stakeholders, including Tanzania, Barrick, and Acacia,” Barrick said in a statement Wednesday.

Today Tanzania newspapers

HabariDuniani brings Tanzania newspaper headlines at your finger tips.

THE GUARDIAN

The Guardian

THE CITIZEN - TANZANIA NEWSPAER

DAILY NEWS - TANZANIA

2ND MINERAL SANDS REPORT:LIST OF MANY TO BE INTERROGATED

Dar es Salaaam. Speaking at the State House yesterday after receiving a report from an eight-member team led by Professor Nehemiah Osoro, Dr Magufuli said he endorsed all its recommendations.

Prof. Nehemiah Osoro submit to President second team report

“ I hereby direct intelligence and security officials to summon all the individuals who have been mentioned in this report and interrogate them, as a preamble to taking appropriate legal actions,’’ he said.

Ex-Minister's AGs and commissioners featured in the President's second probe team's report.

Among them are former cabinet ministers who entered into shoddy Mining Development Agreements (MDAs) with mining companies, occasioning loss to the country in taxes between 1998 and 2017.

Others are former Attorneys General (AGs), their deputies, former commissioners of minerals, directors of contracts departments, lawyers in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals and others who participated in the drafting of the agreements, as well as provision and renewal of mining licences.

Some of the individuals featuring in the report include former ministers for energy and minerals - Daniel Yona, Nazir Karamagi,Wiliam Ngeleja and Professor Sospeter Muhongo.

Others are former commissioners of minerals Paulo Masanja and Dr Dalali Kafumu, as well as Acting Commissioner of Minerals Ally Samaje. Featured too are former AGs (by virtue of which they were chief state legal advisors) Andrew Chenge and Johnson Mwanyika.

The list also includes former deputy AGs, Felix Mrema and Sazi Salula as well as the heads of the contracts department, Maria Kejo and Julius Malaba.

The Osoro-led committee also proposed that legal steps should be taken against workers and owners of the biggest mining companies, Freight Forwarders (T) Limited for contravening the country’s laws.

Dr Magufuli furthermore called for a review of the Mining Act, directing lawyers in the ministries of Energy and Minerals, as well as Justice and Constitutional Affairs to work together to make important amendments that will help the country to benefit from the natural resources.

The mining companies that signed vague agreements with the ministry of Energy and Minerals, according to the report, are Bulyanhulu Gold Mines Limited (Kahama Mine Corporation Limited), North Mara Gold Mine Limited and Pangea Gold Mine Limited - all of which are under the Acacia Gold Mine Plc as well as Geita Gold Mine Limited (AngloGold Ashanti Limited).

“Our country is endowed with a lot of natural resources but our people are still languishing in abject poverty because of some people who subordinate individual gains to national interests,’’ he said. He blamed some officials who ignored potential investors who had shown interest to build smelters in the country.

The Head of State said the country needed investors who were ready for conducting business under win-win arrangements and not exploiters who had been siphoning the country’s resources. He asked the Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Job Ndugai, to explore the possibility of squeezing amendments in the law within the ongoing parliamentary budget session.

“Even if this entails extension of the session for an extra week, I am ready to give you the go-ahead and give you full support, to enable us amend our legislation for the benefit of our country,’’ he added.

Mr Ndugai, who also attended the report’s handing over function, said the House was ready to overhaul the law, adding that he also intended to form a team for overseeing the country’s diamond business as he did relating to Tanzanite.

Yusuf Manji who own Golden Globe, is reported to have acquired the shares in the telecommunications firm for 13bn/-.

But, there are forgery claims shrouding the sale transaction of the shares, with the court warning in a notice published last week that should the Briton fail to show up, the application for revision will be heard and decided exparte, in his absence.

Registrar of Court of Appeal John Kahyoza has indicated in the notice that the application hearing, which has been called on the court’s “suo mottu” (own motion) would be heard by a panel comprising Justices Mbarouk Mbarouk, Augustine Mwarija and Shaban Lila on February 15.

According to the notice, the aim of the hearing is to examine the correctness, legality or propriety of the proceedings, judgment and decree issued by the High Court’s District Registrar Pamela Mazengo on November 10 and 13, 2014.

The applicant to the application is Millicom (Tanzania) NV and Golden Globe, James Bell and Quality Group Limited are the respondents. The application hearing follows the complaint by Millicom to the Chief Justice on case proceedings.

In the January 10, 2017 letter, Millicom NV, a limited liability company registered under the laws of Curacao, claims to be the majority shareholder of MIC Tanzania Limited, which trades as Tigo, the telecom firm registered in the United Republic of Tanzania. Records show that in 2002, James Bell filed a Civil Case No. 306/2002 against MIC UFA Ltd, Millicom International Cellular SA and MIC Tanzania Limited.

In the case, Millicom NV was neither one of the defendants nor interested party. Mr Bell, the plaintiff in the proceedings, got a default judgment against MIC UFA Limited and Millicom International Cellular SA only in March 2005 and nowhere in the judgment is Millicom NV mentioned as the defendant or judgment debtor.

The plaintiff attempted to execute the judgment against shares in Tigo, but could not because the then High Court Judge Laurian Kalegeya, on November 7, 2009 ruled that the shares were not owned by Millicom International Cellular SA, but rather Millicom NV, a wholly separate legal entity.

However, on February 18, 2014, the plaintiff filed another application for execution against the same shares, which he claimed were owned by Millicom International Cellular in Tigo.

On June 17, 2014, the District Registrar, Ms Pamela Mazengo, appointed Mustafa Nyumbamkali of Super Auction Mart & Court Brokers as auctioneer and issued a prohibitory order attaching Millicom International Cellular owned shares in Tigo.

The non-existent shares were purportedly sold by way of an auction on November 5, 2014 to an offshore company, Golden Globe, allegedly controlled and beneficially owned by Manji. On November 10, 2014, the Registrar issued a certificate of sale, concluding the execution in shares of Millicom International Cellular in MIC Tanzania limited.

Tanzania launches Sustainable Energy for All SE4ALL

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania launches Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) today at Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre. Tanzania adopted the SE4ALL initiative in 2012 and started rapid assessment which resulted into the Gap Analysis Report in May 2013. This was followed by the assistance from SE4ALL African Hub to facilitate preparation of the draft Country Action Agenda (AA) under support from AfDB and UNDP.

Tanzania believes that, no development goal can be achieved without appropriate energy input; and that energy is a major culprit in global warming. Therefore, sustainable development needs energy services that meet principles of sustainable development. Thus SE4ALL initiative is a necessary tool to accelerate mobilization of the needed investments into the required energy mix to meet National Development Goals and a platform for sharing experiences on the best practices in achieving SE4ALL by 2030.

$ 92 ML CREDIT FROM INDIA TO IMPROVE WATER ACCESSIBILITY IN ZANZIBAR

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tanzanian
President John Pombe Magufuli on Sunday signed five agreements, including one to provide credit $92 million to improve water accessibility on the island of Zanzibar.

Describing India as a trusted partner in meeting Tanzania’s development priorities, Mr. Modi said he along with President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli “agreed to deepen overall defence and security partnership, especially in the maritime domain.”

“Our in-depth discussions on regional and global issues reflected our considerable convergence on issues of common interest and concern,” he said at a joint press interaction after his bilateral meeting with President Magufuli.

"India is willing to consider an additional $500 million line of concessional credit," Modi said at a joint news conference with Tanzanian president John Magufuli in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.

According to the agreement on water, India will extend a line of credit for the rehabilitation and improvement of the water supply system for the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar.

Tanzania and India also agreed to boost cooperation in health, education, industry and information and communications technology.

1st MAGUFULI'S CABINET RESHUFFLE

Mwigulu Nchemba (MP) and Dr. Charles John Tizeba (MP) have been appointed by President John Magufuli of The United Republic of Tanzania as the new Home Affairs and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Ministers respectively.

Mr. Nchemba, before appointment held the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries docket replaces Charles Kitwanga.

The President sacked Mr. Kitwanga last month after he reportedly showed up in Parliament drunk.

Dr. Charles Tizeba, Member of Parliament for Buchosha Constituency, takes over the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries docket.

The following are pictures of the oaths of office at State House which took place today.

Mwigulu Nchemba new Minister of Home Affairs

Mwigulu Nchemba (MP) right take oath before President John Magufuli

Dr Charles Tizeba new Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries

Dr. Charles Tizeba (MP) right take oath before President John Magufuli

100,000 JOBS TO BE CREATED BY DEWJI

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Last week President Magufuli hosted the President’s Manufacturer of the Year Awards (PMAYA) – an annual event designed to honor the most outstanding manufacturers in the country. At the event, the president assured guests that his government is rallying behind the manufacturing sector to ensure that the sector contributes over 15 percent of Tanzania’s GDP and accounts for 40 percent of all new jobs by 2020.

Tanzania’s richest man, Mohammed Dewji, who carted away several prizes at the ceremony, and received accolades from the President for being the country’s largest private employer of labor, promised the President that he’ll create thousands of new jobs for Tanzanians within the next few years.

“I am going to invest more than $500 million over the next 4 years to employ over 100,000 people across Africa by 2021 with a significant majority of those jobs coming to Tanzanians,” Dewji said in a conversation with this writer.

Dewji, 41, continues to be one of the key players in private sector-led development in the country, well known for being a leader in local employment and manufacturing in East and Central Africa. His conglomerate, the METL Group, now operates in over 35 industries as diverse as trading, agriculture, manufacturing, energy and petroleum, financial services, mobile telephony, infrastructure and real estate, transport, logistics and distribution.

*TANZANIA'S HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER SUSPENDED FOR ALCOHOLISM

President John Magufuli of Tanzania has revoked appointment of Home Affair Minister Charles Kitwanga for getting in the National Assembly when he was allegedly drunk.

Charles Kitwanga

According to a statement issued by the Tanzania's State House's communication unit on Friday evening, the fired minister got into the Parliament and responded to question concerning his ministry, when he was drunk.

In the statement, Tanzanian State House didn't specify the date in which the suspended minister got into the National Assembly when he was drunk.

When asked by some Tanzania's media outlets on Wednesday, Kitwanga insisted that he want resign from the ministerial position due to what he called baseless allegations against him.

WHY KITWANGA SACKED?

For some weeks now, the fired minister was under pressure from members of opposition camp in the National Assembly sitting in Tanzania's capital Dodoma.

MPs from the opposition wanted the minister to step-down voluntarily for allegedly to have been deeply involved in a dubiously-implemented 16.89 million dollars contract between Tanzania Police Force and the privately-owned Lugumi Enterprises Limited Company for supply of finger print scanners to police stations across the country.

MPs from the main opposition Chadema party have lately been at the forefront of growing calls for the minister to step down over implied conflict of interest factor in a deal which has become smeared by allegations of high level impropriety.

This is the first minister to be suspended since President John Magufuli got into power six months ago.

13 NEW FACES IN RC RESHUFFLE

President of Tanzania John Magufuli released the long awaited line-up of regional commissioners (RCs) that has seen 13 new faces grabbing the political portfolios.

Mr Paul Makonda - Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner.

Paul Makonda RC Dar es Salaam (left) and Saidi Meck Sadiki RC Kilimanjaro (right)

Mr Paul Makonda was Kinondoni District Commissioner (DC) replaced Mr Saidi Meck Sadiki, who has been transferred to Kilimanjaro region.

Ms Chiku Galawa - Songwe Regional Commissioner.

Anne Kilango-Malecela - Shinyanga Regional Commissioner.

Others are Dr Kebwe Stephen Kebwe who was former Deputy Minister for Health and Social Welfare who now becomes RC for Morogoro and former Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government), Aggrey Mwanri who has been appointed RC for Tabora region.

The new faces in Dr Magufuli’s list also include Martine Shigela (Tanga), Anthony Mataka (Simiyu), Brigadier General (rtd) Emmanuel Maganga (Kigoma), Major General (rtd) Salum Mustapha (Kagera) and Major General (rtd) Ezekiel Kyunga (Geita).

Also in the list are Daud Ntibenda (Arusha), John Mongella (Mwanza), Amina Masenza (Iringa), Joel Bendera (Manyara), Halima Dendegu (Mtwara), Rehema Nchimbi (Njombe), Engineer Evarist Ndikilo (Coast) and Said Mwambungu (Ruvuma).

Former Mwanza RC Magesa Mulongo has been transferred to Mara region to replace Commissioner of Police (rtd) Zelothe Steven who has been transferred to Rukwa region. Former Kilimanjaro RC Amos Makalla has been moved to Mbeya region.

Dr Magufuli has in the new line-up axed prominent personalities.

They include former Singida RC, Dr Parseko Kone who will now be replaced by Engineer Mathew Mtigumwe, former Mbeya RC, Abbas Kandoro, former Tanga RC, Mwantumu Mahiza, Former Kigoma RC, Issa Machibya, former Geita RC, Fatma Mwasa and Ludovick Mwanzila (Tabora) According to a statement from the Directorate of Presidential Communications, the new RCs would be sworn in tomorrow at 9:30 am at State House.

ENG KIJAZI IS NEW CHIEF SECRETARY

President of Tanzania John Magufuli has appointed Engineer John Kijazi as Chief Secretary to replace Ambassador Ombeni Sefue who will be assigned other duties, according to a statement issued by the Directorate of Presidential Communications in Dar es Salaam.

Engineer John Kijazi

Born on November 18, 1956, Eng Kijazi has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree from the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) and Masters Degree in Highway Engineering from the Birmingham University in the United Kingdom.

Before the appointment, Eng Kijazi was the Tanzania High Commissioner to India.

He previously served as Permanent Secretary in the then Ministry of Works when President Magufuli was a minister in the docket.

He was Tanzania’s Permanent Secretary to the United Nations between 2010; and in 2011, he was appointed Chief Secretary by President Jakaya Kikwete, taking over from Mr Philemon Luhanjo who had retired from public service.

Before that, he served as High Commissioner to Canada from October 2005 to June, 2007. A career diplomat, Ambassador Sefue left the Foreign Service in 1993 to work for over two years as speechwriter and personal assistant to President Ali Hassan Mwinyi.

From the ministry where he started his career, Eng Kijazi was transferred to the then Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation where he was assigned special duties before being appointed High Commissioner to India in 2007. For his part, Ambassador Sefue was born on August 26, 1954 and previously served as Ambassador to the United States since 2007.

Between 1982 and 1986, he was Assistant Engineer in the Ministry of Public Works, becoming Regional Engineer in the same ministry between 1986 and 1996. Eng. Kijazi worked as a Senior Road Maintenance Engineer between 1996 and 1999 from where he was promoted to Director of Regional Roads in the Ministry of Works between the year 1999 and 2002.

The civil servant continued to climb through the leadership ladder to become Permanent Secretary in the same ministry, the post he held between 2002 and 2005.

When President Jakaya Kikwete assumed office in 2005, he changed the ministry’s name to Ministry of Infrastructure Development to which Eng Kijazi continued serving as PS from January to December 2006.

The Special Zone Police Commander, Commissioner of Police (CP) Simon Sirro, addressing reporters in the city, said has collected 1.09bn/- as fine for various traffic offences. The amount was collected from 36,574 offences committed by drivers and riders involving more than 65,056 vehicles and 4,046 motorcycles in three weeks.

“Our goal is not to make profit by collecting huge amounts of money but to make sure road users obey traffic rules and regulations all the time,” CP Sirro told reporters.

Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) have banned for three months fifteen out of the 20 radio stations and one out of six Television stations till have paid their dues.

Innocent Mungy Head of Corporate Communications TCRA said Radio and TV stations that would have not paid their licence fees and meet other conditions set by the TCRA by the end of 18 January 2016, their frequency will be terminated until the payments are made. He said, “I am happy to say that more and more broadcasting stations are making the payments”

Innocent Mungy Head of Corporate Communications TCRA

Banned radio stations in Tanzania

The radio stations that are under the ban include; Kiss FM, Radio Free Africa, Sibuka FM, Uhuru FM, Radio Five, Breeze FM, Country FM, Ebony FM, Generation FM, Kili Fm, Kitulo FM, Huruma Radio, Rock FM, Standard FM, Top Radio, Ulanga FM, Hot FM, Impact FM, Kifimbo FM and Pride FM.

Banned Television stations in Tanzania

Television stations include Star TV, Sumbawanga Municipal TV, Tanga City TV, Iringa TV, Musa Television Network and Mbeya City TV.

Tanzania President Dr. Magufuli sacks Director General of The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB), Dr. Edward G. Hoseah and four others.

Tanzania government has released a circular detailing how the new free education policy will be implemented starting January next year.

Government Circular Number 5 of 2015 is part of implementation of the Education and Training Policy 2014 -- as well as implementation of the promise by President John Magufuli to provide free education to all Tanzanian children from primary to secondary level.

Signed by Tanzania Commissioner of Education, Professor Eustella Bhalalusesa, the directive revokes all other previous circulars that were providing for various contributions that were being made by parents and guardians in public schools.

“Provision of free education means pupils or students will not pay any fee or other contributions that were being provided by parents or guardians before the release of new circular,’’ reads the circular in part. Before the release of a new circular, secondary school students studying in day schools were paying 20,000/- fee while those in boarding schools were paying 40,000/-.

The schools, according to the circular, will continue with their current arrangements until another circular is released. The new system, expected to be a relief to millions of parents and guardians across the country, is a result of the campaign pledges made by Dr Magufuli in the just-concluded general election. The Head of State affirmed that Education would be free from Standard One to Form Four.

Dr Magufuli reiterated his intention for free education when inaugurating parliament last month. “And when I say free education, I indeed mean free,” he vowed, saying effective next year, education will be free with no any contribution in whatever name and form.

Beginning next year, free education will have an impact on the quality of education, according to the circular which directs responsible institutions under the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training to plan for the best education that will foster national development.

Former President of Tanzania has dismissed allegations that he sanctioned the removal of containers from the Dar es Salaam Port before pre-requisite duties for them had been paid.

“I am surprised by rumors that I ordered the exemption of taxes on the containers. I never did anything like that,” he said in Chalinze, Coast Region, where he took part in the clean-up exercise. Dr Kikwete also defended his family saying there was no gain of truth in stories linking them with the businessmen, who own the containers.

The government is said to have lost about Tsh. 80 Billion in unpaid tax in the scam.

President Magufuli recently sacked TRA Commissioner General RishedBade whose administration is being accused of tax management irregularities that occasioned the losses.

9 DECEMBER 2015 UHURU DAY CANCELLED - MAGUFULI

President John Magufuli has ordered the cancellation of 9^th December 2015 Independence Day Celebrations for Tanzania. Aim to reduce unnecessary public expenditure.

President said funds meant for Uhuru Day celebrations would instead be used for a major clean-up campaign at stemming the spread of Cholera in the Country.

“It’s so shameful that we are spending huge amount of money to celebrate 54 years of self-rule while our people are dying of Cholera,” the President said in a statement read by the Chief Secretary Ombeni Sefue.

GOODLUCK JONATHAN TO RECONCILE IN ZANZIBAR POLL STALEMATE

Zanzibar. The Commonwealth has appointed former President Goodluck Jonathan to lead the charge for the resolution of the political stalemate in the semi-independent island of Zanzibar, in Tanzania United Republic.

Goodluck Jonathan

After the October 25 general election which produced John Magufuli as the new President of Tanzania, the Jonathan-led COG and other international observers had endorsed the polling processes as credible. The appointment followed his highly acclaimed leadership of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) to last month’s Tanzania general election.

The government made the nullification of the election results in October even after strong opposition and criticism from the opposition. Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) cited violations of the electoral law as reason for the nullification.

The new appointment was conveyed to Jonathan last week in a letter sent to him by the Commonwealth Secretary General, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma. Jonathan’s new appointment as Commonwealth Special representative is seen as an affirmation of the former President’s towering status as the moral face of democracy and transparent polling in Africa.

Jonathan has now been drafted in to quell the tension brewing on the island of Zanzibar, following the nullification of the presidential election results by the local electoral body, citing irregularities.

International observers have continued to dispute the decision, on the grounds that both the voting and counting processes were held in an atmosphere of peace.