Human body parts dumped in Tanzania

                         

Eight people from a Tanzanian medical institute have been arrested after 85 bags containing body parts were found in the port city of Dar es Salaam.

A police officer told the BBC that human limbs, fingers, ribs and skulls were in the bags, discovered in a landfill site in the Bunju suburb.

Some of the bags contained surgical instruments and used disposable gloves.

Tanzania, Zambia sign Sh128bn Tazara rescue pact

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania and Zambia have agreed to provide the struggling Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) with $80 million (Sh128 billion) in the next 12 months.

At a meeting held in Lusaka last Friday, the Tazara Council of Ministers, which is the fim’s highest policy organ, resolved to make the funds available following months of low productivity and operational disruptions.

Arusha terror ‘is beyond tourism, politics’

                                

                       Arusha/Dar es Salaam. Home Affairs minister Mathias Chikawe said yesterday that recurrent bomb attacks in Arusha were acts of terrorism as new details suggested that the perpetrators had a wider agenda than just targeting the tourism sector.

Speaking to The Citizen by telephone, Mr Chikawe was categorical that the attacks were not linked to politics.

“This is terrorism...the aim of these terrorists is to distrupt peace, to kill, to maim and cause terror in society...nothing else,” he said.

Rural school without toilet since 2009

A total of 584 teachers and pupils of Businda Primary School in Ushirombo Ward are relieving themselves in bushes due to lack of toilets.

The school head, Mr Peter Budotela, told this reporter that since he was transferred to the school in 2009, the school does not have a permanent toilet, saying that once there was a temporary one, but it was destroyed by rains. “For now we have no toilet at all, a situation that compels pupils and teachers to relieve themselves in bushes,” said Mr Budotela.

Traders count losses as fire razes down Karume Market

Mchikichini market traders and members of the public look at what was left of the formers’ merchandise after the Karume Market in Dar es Salaam was razed to the ground on Wednesday night.

Dar es Salaam. Mr Rashid Salum, 22 is lost in thoughts on how he will restart his business after all of his merchandise was razed when Mchikichini Market, popularly known as Karume Market, caught fire on Wednesday night.

2014/2015 BUDGET: No more tax exemptions

Finance minister Saada Nkuya displays the briefcase containing the government’s 2014/15 Budget before tabling it in Parliament in Dodoma yesterday

For those who have benefited from expensive tax exemptions, the 2014/15 budget will be a thorn in the flesh as the state drops that benefit

Dar es Salaam. Finance minister Saada Mkuya yesterday tabled a budget that seeks to rein in lavish spending as it abolishes expensive tax exemptions. But even though the government promised to reduce the cost of living, the budget presented yesterday did not demonstrate clearly how the man on the street would get relief when it comes to daily household expenses.

TANZANIA to enjoy universal cell phone network......

Deputy minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Mr January Makamba

Dodoma. The government yesterday said it was in the process of devising a plan to connect the entire country to mobile phone networks by October, next year.

The deputy minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Mr January Makamba, however, cautioned that lack of infrastructure like roads and electricity as well as a shortage of funds was slowing down the pace of implementing the plan.

He was responding to a main question by Mr Dismas Bwanausi (Lulindi – CCM) on whether mobile phone towers would be constructed in the six wards of his constituency.

How mining firms are milking Tanzania dry??

Report says Tanzania’s mining sector is a major culprit in over-invoicing, which accounts for a big chunk of the estimated $1.87 billion the country loses each year.

Dar es Salaam. As Tanzanians wait for the 2014/15 national budget with bated breath, a new report shows that the government loses about $248 million (Sh415 billion) annually in tax revenue through misinvoicing by mining companies alone.

Falling revenue in the current financial year has led to speculation that the government will raise taxes and impose new ones on consumers in its budget proposals to be tabled in Parliament on Thursday.

DO YOU KNOW THAT Unhappy teachers can only deliver unhappy results?????

The Tanzania Teachers’ Union (TTU) wants the government to pay teachers more than double their current earnings, based on the argument that unhappy teachers cannot work effectively. TTU Acting General Secretary Ezekiah Oluoch spoke with The Citizen staff writer Lucas Liganga on the burning issue in the teaching fraternity.

QUESTION: What is the truth about the working conditions of teachers in Tanzania in terms of hours of work, support structures, salaries and other benefits?