[Tanzania-English]Hefty fines for ‘Viroba’ defiance

THE ban on sachet-packed liquor popularly known as ‘Viroba’ starts today. And, heavy penalties of up to three years imprisonment or fines amounting to 5m/- or both will be imposed on those found consuming, distributing or producing the hard liquor packed in plastic sachets. However, five producers of the liquor have filed a case with the High Court in Dar es Salaam in a bid to prevent the implementation...

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[Tanzania-English]High Court stops Bank from enforcing 300bn/- award

THE High Court yesterday stayed the proceedings for enforcement of award by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), requiring the Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) to pay Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited (SCBHK) over 330bn/-. That was after Judge Ama Munisi took into consideration submissions presented by Advocate Majura Magafu for TANESCO,...

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[Tanzania-Swahili] January Makamba na maagizo ya Serikali kwa wanaotengeneza pombe za VIROBA

Serikali imepiga marufuku rasmi utengenezaji na uuzwaji wa Pombe ambazo hufungwa katika vifungashio vya mifuko ya plastiki maarufu kama “VIROBA” na kuagiza kuanzia sasa watengenzaji wa pombe hizo watafute utaratibu uliotengenezwa na serikali kwa kuzifunga katika chupa zinazoweza kurejeshwa. Agizo hilo linasema zinatakiwa kuwa na ujazo usiopungua milligram 250 ambapo atakayebainika kukiuka masharti...

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[Tanzania-swahili] Freeman Mbowe arudishwa Polisi usiku huu

Sakata la dawa za kulevya bado lipo kwenye vichwa vya habari Tanzania ambapo Jumatatu ya February 20 2017 imemuhusu Mwenyekiti wa Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo CHADEMA Freeman Mbowe aliyefika Polisi kwa mahojiano. Jioni ya Jumatatu Mbunge huyo wa Hai Kilimanjaro alichukuliwa na Polisi kwenye msafara wa magari yasiyopungua matatu ambapo iliripotiwa baadae kwamba Polisi walikwenda...

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[Tanzania]13 on ‘police watch’ over drugs

THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam has placed under police supervision 13 people for alleged involvement in narcotics as Interpol Tanzania hunts for more details of a Tanzanian woman, Pamela David Kiritta (41), recently arrested in India with illicit drugs valued at 11bn/-. Almost all the suspects put under police watch at the court are local music and movie industry stars. Conspicuously...

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[Tanzania]Poor quality of MSD warehouses ignites heated debate in house

THE government pledged here yesterday that it would work on claims that the Medical Store Department’s (MSD) warehouses are in poor standards, jeopardizing the quality of stored drugs. Health, Elderly and Children Minister Ummy Mwalimu, responding to a supplementary question by Ms Halima Mohammed (Special Seats-CUF), said: “We have received the concern of the honourable MP, we will work on it.”...

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[Tanzania]Arusha game firm boss, nine others held for illegal stay

THE Director of Tanzania Game Trackers, Michael Allard, and nine other suspects working for the hunting establishment have been arrested here for allegedly staying and working in the country without the necessary permits. The establishment, abbreviated as TGT, is a hunting concession operating at Ngaramtoni ya Chini section of Arumeru District, Arusha Region, while Allard is said to be a French...

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[Tanzania] Expansion works on four airports for EIB approval

EURORPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is set to decide on a proposal to upgrade and expand four airports, which are lined-up for fund receipt after completing the initial stage of scrutinising the contractors. The EIB had agreed to fund a special programme of transforming transport links to remote regions of Kigoma, Kagera, Tabora, Shinyanga and Sumbawanga by committing 50 million Euros (over 100bn/-)...

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[Tanzania]Muhimbili to start local kidney implants March

MUHIMBILI National Hospital (MNH) by the end of March, this year, will start local kidney transplantations, it has been confirmed. Speaking to ‘Daily News’ yesterday, MNH head of Communication Department, Mr Amiel Eligaesha said the exercise was supposed to start last month but was delayed, adding that it is part of the government’s plan to cut down the number of patients travelling abroad for...

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[Tanzania]Times FM to run FGM campaign every week

THE government has unveiled a special radio programme on anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) campaign that will be aired by a Dar es Salaam based Times FM Station, reiterating that collective efforts are still vital to curb the problem. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Ms Sihaba Nkinga, said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the...

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[Tanzania]Students drop subjects as more aspire to learn

SIX more secondary schools have expressed interest to learn Chinese as a key language for study, which brings to 14 the number of schools teaching the language in their courses of instruction. The Confucius Institute (CI) Director at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Prof Zhang Xiozhen, said here over the weekend that there was growing demand for Chinese language among students across the...

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[France]Former French president faces trial

A French judge has ordered ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial in an illegal campaign finance case. Mr Sarkozy faces accusations that his party falsified accounts in order to hide 18m euros (£15m; $20m) of campaign spending in 2012. Mr Sarkozy has repeatedly denied that he was aware of the overspending. He lost the 2012 race to Francois Hollande, and failed in his bid to run again in...

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[Tanzania]Simba face tricky Fed Cup tie

SIMBA have been handed a fascinating Azam Sports Federation Cup round of 16 tie with African Lyon while holders Young Africans were drawn against minnows Kiluvya United. The draw for the round of 16 of the ASFC, scheduled to kick on February 24, produced some exciting allpremier league fixtures. Last season’s runners-up Azam will host Mtibwa Sugar at Azam Complex in a thrilling all-premier league...

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[Kenya]NASA will change Kenya, says Raila Odinga

Opposition leader Raila Odinga yesterday pledged the National Super Alliance (NASA) will reform the country within 90 days if it wins the next elections. Raila, who addressed members of the Maasai community from Samburu, Kajiado and Narok, and the Ilchamus from Baringo also received Jubilee MP Moitalel ole Kenta who left Jubilee. Ole Kenta was elected on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s TNA party. Speaking...

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[Somalia]Al Shabaab execute four men accused of spying in Somalia

Al Shabaab militants in Somalia publicly beheaded four men accused of spying for the country's Western-backed government, the United States and neighboring Kenya, residents in the south of the Horn of Africa country said. The al Qaeda-linked group confirmed the executions, which took place on Sunday after the men were found guilty by an al Shabaab court in Jamame district of lower Jubba region, some...

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[Tanzania]Tanzanian woman held in Delhi over 11bn/- ‘fine quality’ cocaine haul

A TANZANIA woman identified as Pamela David Kiritta (41) is among two people who were nabbed last Friday in India with four kilogrammes of ‘fine quality Colombian cocaine,’ with a street value of US 500,000 dollars (about 11bn/-), ac-cording to media reports from New Delhi. Ms Kiritta was arrested by India’s Narcot-ics Control Bureau (NCB) alongside a Zambian national Thelma Mkandawire (38) at...

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[Tanzania]TSN scribe, CCM official die in road accident

MOSHI-BASED correspondent for ‘HabariLeo’, Arnold Swai, was among seven people who were killed in a road accident in Rombo District yesterday. The incident occurred at Mwika Mawanjeni area in Rombo District, Kilimanjaro Region; after, according to eye- witnesses, a Mitsubishi Fuso truck with failed brakes rammed onto a Toyota Hilux FWD vehicle in which Swai and six others were in. The truck...

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[Tanzania] Plans to inspect over 35,000 small-scale mines underway

THE government is planning to carry out massive inspec-tion of over 35,000 licensed small-scale mines amid seri-ous shortage of professional mining engineers and inspec-tors. Acting Commissioner of Minerals, Engineer Ally Samaje, told this newspaper recently in Geita that his ministry had around 60 mining engineers countrywide who cannot manage to undertake the task even if they were overstretched. Engineer...

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[Tanzania]Cheats to be flushed out of offices

THE government’s effort to weed out unqualified workers has taken a new turn with the Minister of State in the President’s Office (Public Service Management and Good Governance), Ms Angelah Kairuki, announcing that next month all employees who failed to submit their academic certificates for verification will be sacked. She said in the National Assembly on Friday evening that a major crackdown...

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[Tanzania]Mobile phones ruin academic pursuits

WHILE some school-going youths increasingly spend more time chatting on mobile phones or engage in internet betting games, the two best performers in the recently released 2016 Form Four National Examination results spent their time reading text books. Both Alfred Shauri, the country's top best performer from Feza Boys (in Dar es Salaam) and the second best and top girl performer Cynthia Mchechu...

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