Tanzania: RITA Issues Over 2,000 Birth Certificates

OVER 2,000 under-five years old in Dar es Salaam, Geita and Shinyanga regions have been registered and issued with birth certificates in a registration campaign launched since November last year.

The Registration Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA), Communication Officer, Jafari Malema, said that the new initiative would help to reduce the backlog of unregistered children and establishing a system for registering all new births in the regions.

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