from the Daily News Tanzania This article details a conference happening in Tanzania. - kaleThe Chief Secretary of the Revolutionary Council of Zanzibar, Mr Ramadhan Mwinyi Muombwa, has said the public and private sectors have to join hands in fighting poverty and in addressing other economic challenges facing Tanzania.Mr Muombwa made the appeal in Zanzibar while closing a six-day seminar on leadership attended by senior officials from the Union and the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar as well as representatives from the private sector.The seminar is the first in a two-year series of seminars to be delivered by the Enhancing Public Service Leadership in the Globalised Era (EPSL) programme targeting leaders from the government and the private sector."It is clear to me as it should...
from the Daily News of Tanzania The premier of Tanzania has invited academics to help poor countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals. - Kaleby GODFREY OBONYOPremier Mizengo Pinda yesterday urged academicians and researchers to recommend the best macroeconomic policies that could assist least developed countries (LDCs) attain Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.“Poor policies are detrimental to financial development, economic growth and poverty reduction in the LDCs”, he said. The premier made the comments when addressing participants to a two-day international conference organised by the Institute of Finance Management (IFM) in Dar es Salaam to share development policy experiences.He said that there were some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia that were likely...
from IPP Media This story details the challenges of water and sanitation programs in Tanzania. - Kale By Perege GumboAs 50 percent of Tanzania`s population remains below poverty line living on less than 1 US dollar per day, poverty becomes the number one concern of government.However, with over 80 percent of the poor being in rural areas depending on agriculture for survival, how could good water development and management unlock the majority of people from abject poverty? Staff writer Perege Gumbo reports:THE Tanzania`s Reduction Strategy Paper (PSRP) and the development Vision 2025 testify inalienability of water from the country`s development.The two documents show clearly that for Tanzania to achieve its development aspirations-eradicate poverty, attain water and food security,...
from the Citizen, Tanzania The GDP of Africa increased by 5 percent last year, while the continents world trade declines. A politician from Tanzania speaks out on the importance on trade aggrements with it's neighbors. - KaleBy Polycarp MachiraThe government has said negotiations between the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) zone and the European Union should unequivocally address poverty reduction and wealth creation as key to envisaged economic partnership agreements (EPAs).Finance and Economic Affairs minister Mustapha Mkulo (pictured) made this affirmation while opening a conference on accelerating regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Region (ESA-IO) in Dar es Salaam yesterday.He said deliberations on integration should also recognize...
from IPP Media Tanzania By Deodatus MfugaleMseko sat in front of his humbo house, a hut really, his eight children around him. The children were aged between two and 12 and none of them had started school, even the eldest one, a girl.At 12 years old, there was no hope that the girl would see the inside of a classroom. It was very likely that Mseko would marry her off to get a few shillings in dowry in order to keep things going.His wife was not at home. She had gone to her in-laws in another village to deliver their ninth child and Mseko remained hopeful that all would go well.There was no dispensary in the village and the nearest was 50 kilometres away.It was late morning and the family had only eaten some boiled cassava for breakfast which would also pass for lunch.With a family of...
from the Worcester Telegram and Gazette By Bronislaus B. Kush About two years ago, Nicholas Campolettano, a student at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester who was studying religion and sociology, began developing an interest in the plight of some of the indigenous people of Africa.He researched issues affecting Africans and carefully monitored news developments from the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent.Last year, Mr. Campolettano, a resident of Hicksville, N.Y., on Long Island, even worked with U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, and state Sen. Edward M. Augustus Jr., D-Worcester, to organize a program on the genocide in Darfur.“I did a lot of studying, but you can only read so much,” said Mr. Campolettano, who will be a senior next fall. “I...
from IPP Media By Perege Gumbo, recently from JohannesburgA leading economist has said Tanzania is one of the few African states which command great potential to turning the current global food crisis into gainful opportunity.That is because the country is endowed with huge arable land and has since independence enjoyed unparalleled peace and social-cultural stability, unlike so many other countries in the region.Addressing participants to the second Business Journalism Forum, the Standard Bank Group Economist Yvonne Mhango said that with many African nations facing internal political instabilities, Tanzania could benefit from the current global food crisis.Drawing contrasts, she said that recent Kenya�s post election violence and conflicts in Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),...
from All AfricaByline: Pius Rugonzibwa A majority Tanzanians has sunk deeper into poverty in the past three years despite the country's general economic growth, a recent survey shows.The survey carried over the last year by the Research and Analysis Working Group under the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (Mkukuta) found out that 52 per cent of the respondents, mostly in rural areas felt their economic situation has become worse since 2005.According to the report of the survey, which was announced in Dar es Salaam recently by the Government, the situation could become even worse amid the rising global food and fuel prices.The report, which is entitled the 'Poverty and Human Development Report of 2007', has reinforced the widely believed conception that very few...
from Womens E NewsBy Zoe AlsopPoverty and tradition help fuel a potent business in human trafficking in East Africa, where a girl can sell for $20. Most kidnapped children are not as lucky as Saffi, who returned after her mother bought TV ads. Many disappear without much notice.For five months last year Kim Kitchen, a Canadian expert on sexual violence and community development, lived in a crowded shantytown on the outskirts of the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam while she set up a women's safety program. She began to notice that nightfall was an anxious time for mothers."One of the startling realities for me was as the sun started to set I observed the women would start calling in their daughters," said Kitchen. "As the sun set more and more, and daughters hadn't come, the urgency in...
IPP Media By Staff writer Peter MsunguLast year Mgovano Nyumbi of Mahenge harvested four bags of finger millet, promising good money. He could not get a market.The produce decomposed, shattering Nyumbi`s dreams of becoming rich through his sweat and toil on the land! He is seriously contemplating whether he should continue with cultivation of the cash crop.``Motor vehicles cannot reach my farm tucked 35 kilometres away from passable roads. The road to my place is impassable,`` Says Nyumbi.His cry is echoed by Yuda Mangwada, a peasant farmer: ``I have my five-acre farm at a village, 16 kilometres away from Dabaga in Iringa District, from which point we usually transport our fruits from the farm.``The only available transport is the usual bicycle and on paths, because the rough and bumpy...
from the San Francisco Chronicle Meredith May, Chronicle Staff WriterDr. Frank Artress looked down at his fingers. His nail beds were turning blue. He was running out of oxygen near the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro.A cardiac anesthesiologist, Artress knew the signs of high altitude pulmonary edema. He knew there was a 75 percent chance that he would perish on Africa's highest peak.Artress led his wife to a rock, and they sat together above the clouds. Then it hit him. He wasn't afraid to die, he was ashamed. He had lived only for himself - practicing medicine in a Modesto hospital, traveling with his wife, purchasing luxury vacation homes and collecting art. He felt as if he had nothing to show for his 50 years. He felt as if his life had been a waste.In that moment, Artress and his wife...
from All Africa The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)By Felix Mwera TarimeA women's non government organization (NGO) has assisted in the formation of about 100 women groups to carry out anti-poverty activities among the rural population in Tarime district, Mara region.Some of the groups have already established small-scale economic activities in their respective areas.This was revealed here by the executive chairperson of the association called Tukamilishane Womens Association (TWHA), Ms Leticia Ghati.Addressing a press conference yesterday, she mentioned some of the activities started by the groups as tailoring, brick making, beekeeping, food processing and farming.However, she said, they were in dire need of small-scale entrepreneurs training skills if they are to achieve the intended goal."We...
from the Milwaukee Journal SentinelFormer Green Bay congressman gets word out on America's good worksBy MEG JONESDar es Salaam, Tanzania - Mark Green goes to work every day in a relatively new American embassy where a large stone sits under the shade of a tree. On the stone are the names of more than 200 people.They were killed in twin suicide bomb attacks at the embassies here and in Kenya, Tanzania's neighbor to the north. And that's why the former congressman from Green Bay works in a new building as America's ambassador in this eastern African country.Ten years ago this August, al-Qaida terrorists drove truck bombs into the embassies in carefully coordinated attacks. Kenya bore the brunt of the deaths. A water tanker truck prevented the attackers from getting close to Tanzania's...
from IPP Media By Correspondent Christopher MagolaAt least 578 out of every 100,000 expectant women die of pregnancy-related complications in Tanzania every year while the number of newborns dying is 144 per 1,000 live births.According to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare every year 8,100 mothers die due to child birth related cases and pregnancy complications and that a total of 157,000 children die due to preventable conditions.To address the situation the Government has launched a National Road Map Strategic Plan to accelerate reduction of maternal, newborn and child deaths in Tanzania (2008-2015).The Plan was officially launched by President Jakaya Kikwete during a recent visit to Tanzania by Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.The plan includes introduction of mobile...
from All AfricaThe Citizen (Dar es Salaam)NEWS28 April 2008Posted to the web 28 April 2008By Samuel KamndayaArusha, Kilimanjaro, Manyara and Tanga regional commissioners are planning to fight poverty and ignorance in their regions.They will also improve key sector to increase incomes of people.They said in a statement obtained in Dar es Salaam that entrepreneurial and business education would be spread to householders to enable them to exploit their resources fully.They made the remarks in Arusha at a weekend empowerment workshop.The Tanzania National Business Council (TNBC) organised the event. The regions will also formulate strategies that will allow people to get bank loans easily."We are required to go to the households. Let's talk to them and understand their needs and consider how...
from IPP Media By Lydia ShekighendaThe Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has projected that it will be between three and four decades before ordinary wananchi ``feel`` the country`s economic growth.This is according to BoT Governor Benno Ndulu in a presentation at a forum for researchers and decision-makers in Dar es Salaam yesterday.Prof Ndulu`s presentation centred on the challenges of growth Tanzania was contending with and was made at an annual research workshop organised by Research on Poverty Alleviation (Repoa).The BoT chief argued that it was impossible for the results of economic growth to be felt within a short period, adding: ``Last year Tanzania`s economy was projected to have grown by 7.3 per cent.If we had managed to grow consecutively for a period of 30 to 40 years, then the outcome...
from IPP Media By Felister PeterOver 40 per cent of the people in each of seven regions in Tanzania live in extreme poverty, according to the National Economic Empowerment Council.The council says the worst off region is Singida followed, in a descending order of poverty levels, by Lindi, Mwanza, Coast, Mara, Shinyanga and Ruvuma.Prof Lucian Msambichaka of NEEC revealed this in a presentation on the National Dialogue on Economic Empowerment in the country at a seminar for journalists held in Dar es Salaam yesterday.He said statistics show that 63 per cent the people of Tanzania earn below the national per capita income of 313,362/- a year, adding: ``Singida Region leads by having 55.32 per cent of its people earning 208,812/- per year.It contributes a mere 235,535m/- to the gross...
from AFP via GoogleARUSHA, Tanzania (AFP) — US President George W. Bush unveiled a new plan Monday to hand out millions of bed-nets to defend every Tanzanian child aged one to five from the mosquitoes that spread deadly malaria."This is one of the simplest technologies imaginable, but it's also one of the most effective" to combat malaria, Bush said after touring a maternity ward and meeting with mothers and children at Meru District Hospital.With his top diplomat on a day-long peace mission in neighbouring Kenya, the US president focused on what he called a "campaign of compassion" in Tanzania, the second leg of a five-country swing through Africa.Bush toured the hospital, a complex of stucco buildings with corrugated tin roofs outside Tanzania's safari capital Arusha, in the shadow...
from CNNDAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (CNN) -- President Bush gave Tanzania's president, who played basketball as a youth, a pair of Shaquille O'Neal's shoes Sunday, along with millions of dollars to help combat disease and poverty in the east African country. The gift of the American basketball icon's size-23 hightops spoke to the lighter side of Bush's visit. President Jakaya Kikwete presented gifts, too -- a stuffed leopard and lion, a Zebra skin and a wood carving for the American president who was enthusiastically welcomed on the second stop of his five-nation African tour.The Tanzanian president later artfully dodged a reporter's question on the potential that the U.S. might elect a black president, Sen. Barack Obama, whose father is Kenyan.Kikwete looked at Bush before demonstrating his...
from The Sudbury StarPosted By Rachel PunchA 10-year-old Tanzanian named Michael has inspired Sudburian Ashley Pawlowicz to raise funds to bring education to children in the African country.Pawlowicz, 24, met Michael while she was volunteering at an orphanage in Mwanza, Tanzania last year. The boy scored 295 out of 300 on a test determining if he could get into private school. In private school, he would have classes with about 30 students as opposed to the 150 in the public school he was attending.Despite his high marks, he did not have the $360 needed to pay the annual tuition. Pawlowicz and other volunteers pooled their money so Michael could go to school."We all pitched in. It was such a waste for him to be at the other school," Pawlowicz said.Now, the College Notre-Dame graduate is...
from AfricastMAPUTO, February 11 -- United States President George Bush will spend most of his time during a five-nation tour of Africa later this month in Tanzania, to spotlight development gains in the East African nation."This is a success story," said US embassy public affairs officer Jeffery Salaiz of Tanzania, during a press conference held in the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam on Tuesday.In what will be his second presidential visit to Africa, Bush is to travel to Tanzania, Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and Liberia from February 15 to 21 for talks with their heads of state and to visit projects funded by the US government. Most of the trip -- February 16 to 19 -- is to be spent in and around Dar es Salaam and Arusha, a town in northern Tanzania."It will be an opportunity to see...
from All AfricaThe Citizen (Dar es Salaam)There is need to impart entrepreneurship spirit to all Tanzanians at all levels of society and especially in children as a tool to fight poverty in the country, a UDSM don has said.Dr Donath Olomi of the University of Dar es Salaam Entrepreneurship Centre said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that entrepreneurship as a way of thinking, reasoning, and acting that results in the creation, enhancement, realisation, and renewal of value for an individual, group, organization and society should be well enshrined in children upbringing, early learning techniques up through all levels of education."Integrating entrepreneurship spirit in Tanzanian culture would facilitate empowerment and hence poverty reduction of Tanzanians right from the grassroots. True...
from All AfricaThe Citizen (Dar es Salaam)NEWSThere is need to impart entrepreneurship spirit to all Tanzanians at all levels of society and especially in children as a tool to fight poverty in the country, a UDSM don has said.Dr Donath Olomi of the University of Dar es Salaam Entrepreneurship Centre said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that entrepreneurship as a way of thinking, reasoning, and acting that results in the creation, enhancement, realisation, and renewal of value for an individual, group, organization and society should be well enshrined in children upbringing, early learning techniques up through all levels of education."Integrating entrepreneurship spirit in Tanzanian culture would facilitate empowerment and hence poverty reduction of Tanzanians right from the grassroots. True...
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from IPP Media By Patrick KisemboMore than 13.6 million Tanzanians, equivalent to 36 per cent of the country�s population, can neither read nor write.This is according to Education and Vocational Training deputy minister Mwantumu Mahiza, who warned in Dar es Salaam yesterday that illiteracy was creeping back alarmingly fast and called for urgent measures to arrest it.Opening an Institute of Adult Education workshop, Mahiza cautioned that the level of illiteracy in the country was 22 per cent in the 1970s but had since shot up considerably.�According to the statistics, 36 per cent of Tanzanians, equivalent to 13,680,000 Tanzanians, can neither read nor write as compared to 78 per cent in the 1970s,� she said.The deputy minister directed the institute to conduct thorough research into...
from IPP Media By Guardian ReporterThe US Government`s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has reaffirmed that it will continue supporting efforts by Tanzania to tame the scourge of poverty.Tanzania is among 16 countries the corporation has picked to benefit from the 5.5tn/- it will be disbursing.MCC chief executive officer John Danilovich said in a statement issued in Dar es Salaam yesterday its assistance was directed at initiatives meant to improve the quality of life for the world�s poorest people.He explained that the MCC assistance enabled farmers to be issued with land titles, thus officially qualifying for bank and other loans with which to expand their operations and improve infrastructure and their access to critical social services for the benefit of people living in...
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from the Financial TimesBy Caroline DanielThe sight of more than 900 primary school children arrayed beneath the lilac laburnum trees is both impressive and unsettling. Their uniforms are mismatched. Many of their royal blue skirts or shorts extend to their ankles, held up with white string or oversized belts. They are long because they have to last for all their time at school.Camfed, the British charity that supports girls' education in rural Africa, has helped more than 12,000 pupils in Tanzania stay at primary school through its safety net fund. It does so by offering the most basic aid, helping children - especially those who have lost both parents - by giving them pens, exercise books or uniforms. Even these can be unaffordable to many families."Primary education for girls [offers]...
from Reuters DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Japan has given Tanzania 2.3 billion yen in loans and grants to help the country fight poverty and HIV, Tanzania's Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.Of the total, a 2 billion yen loan will support the east African nation's budget, the ministry said. The rest will pay for medicines and test kits to counter the threat of HIV/AIDS.About 2 million Tanzanians, out of a population of some 40 million, are infected with HIV, Tanzania's government says.The country is among the continent's top recipients of donor aid, with 42 percent of its 2007-08 budget funded by...
from All AfricaEast African (Nairobi)By J. MwamunyangeNairobiTanzania's health sector will receive Tsh80.83 billion ($64.3 million) from its development partners this financial year, a 26 per cent increase over last year's figure."This is in recognition of the important role the health sector is playing in reducing poverty," said Julie McLaughlin, the lead health specialist of the World Bank in Tanzania.The latest tranche will bring the funding to $165 million over the past three years.Donors are supporting the sector through a basket fund sponsored by Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, UNFPA, Unicef and the World Bank.The fund is used in train-ing of health workers, provision of essential drugs, vaccines, contraceptives, medical equipment, and the rehabilitation...