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Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) lending to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) customers by 400 per cent between this year and 2004 to Sh13 billion from Sh2.3 billion, a senior official of the bank said at the weekend.
Tabora Region received Sh3.4 billion from the road fund until the end of the fourth quarter of financial year 2008/09.
A human rights activist has asked the Government to trace customers of albino organs in order to end witchcraft-associated killings of melanin deficient persons mostly rocking Lake Zone regions.
The Civic United Front (CUF) has warmly received the speech by Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume on the recent political developments in the Isles.
Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) flouted public procurement rules in awarding a Sh3.6 billion medical insurance tender, according to the Public Procurement Appeals Authority (PPAA).
The Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) plans to use the forthcoming Champions of the Champions tournament to obtain brilliant athletes who will form a formidable national team.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), through the World Friends Korea Programme, has donated 25 computers to support an ICT project at Karume Institute of Science and Technology in Zanzibar.
Kilimanjaro Stars' head coach Marcio Maximo will announce his final squad today, which will travel to Nairobi, Kenya for the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
The government of Cuba yesterday appealed to Tanzania to support its decision to pressurize the United States to free five Cuban nationals currently being held in US jails.
TANZANIA'S former president Benjamin Mkapa will arrive in Uganda on Thursday to officiate at the Makerere University alumni reunion.
Investors looking for fresh natural resources struck deals in Tanzania and Uganda to exploit gold and oil respectively.
As President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of Tanzania was about to leave Dar es Salaam on November 15 to attend the World Food Summit in Rome, he sat down at State House to discuss a range of issues with AllAfrica. One of them was food security.
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan could be the next two states to become members of the East African Community, EAC's secretariat in Arusha has revealed.
Tanzania could become the biggest gold producing country in Africa following new discoveries of gold in the most unlikely areas of Lindi and Nachingwea districts in the south of the country.
THE good relationship between albinos and human rights activists has been strained in recent days. Some albinos complain bitterly saying that some human rights activists ignore their rights and instead defend their arch enemies -- killers who hunt for albino limbs.
Agriculture minister William Ruto has moved to court seeking to expunge his name from a report linking him to post-election violence.
The deaths of four people at a small-scale gold mine in Tarime District points to a worrying trend that is becoming all too familiar.
Zanzibar's Chief Minister Ally Juma Shamhuna has requested the world soccer body FIFA) to recognise the Isles and give the membership.
A Kigali bound Tanzanian registered bus was on Saturday involved in an accident that instantly killed two Rwandan passengers.
The bizarre killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania has evoked deep fear and anxiety in the two countries, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says.
South Africa-based Elgin Engineering and the state-owned Tanzania State Mining Corporation (Stamico) are jointly constructing a $20 million mining equipment manufacturing facility.
The government's plan to introduce a bulk procurement system for petroleum products is threatened by a plot to halt or delay its implementation, even as the relevant consultancy firm presents its final report.
THE Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) is optimistic that Mainland national soccer team, Kilimanjaro Stars, will produce best results in the forthcoming CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup, set to get underway in Kenya from next Saturday.
Barbarians team put up brilliant show to defeat Dodgers by hefty 22 runs in the 10-over cricket match held on Thursday at the Helenic Club court in Dar es Salaam.
European private investors are hungry for shares in unlisted African firms and could provide the needed shot in the arm for a continent that has taken a beating from the financial crisis the West is emerging from, reports LEE MWITIT
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