London, Feb. 18, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Tanzania has overtaken Nigeria as the African leader in rural electrification projects. READ ALSO: AFDB GIVES MOROCCAN YOUTHS A NEW FUTURE IN AGRICULTURE This is because the electrification programme being implemented through Rural Energy Agency (REA), in the East African country has yielded sub substantial achievements, placing Tanzania in the top ...

London, Feb. 2, 2020(AltAfrica)-Twenty people have died and a dozen others were injured in a stampede during a church meeting in the northern Tanzanian city of Moshi, the government said Sunday. It was not immediately clear what prompted the stampede, which took place on Saturday. But it occurred when church faithful were being ushered through ...

London, Feb. 2, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Tanzania’s new rail line, the standard gauge railway (SGR) will undergo its first formal testing in May, after the completion of the construction of the first phase in April. Speaking to The EastAfrican in Dar es Salaam this week, SGR project manager Machibya Masanja said construction is going on around the clock to ...

London, Jan. 23, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nine Universities in Tanzania have been deregistered by The Tanzania Commission for Universities for failing to take corrective measures aimed at improving the standard of education in their campuses. “The deregistered universities have failed to take remedial measures given to them in 2018 to improve the standards of education they offered,” ...

London, Jan. 20, 2020 (AltAfrica)-From today, Monday, January 20, 2020 Tanzania government is expected to switch off about 10 million unregistered sim cards in bid to crack down on rising crimes Officials say the move is aimed at cracking down on cybercrime, which jumped by 82% in Tanzania in 2017. Among the victims is Gift ...

London, Jan. 9, 2020 (AltAfrica)-About 5,000 Vanilla farmers in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania have been able to access new markets in Europe, Asia and some African countries courtesy of SourceTrace, a player in digital innovations in the agriculture and allied segment READ ALSO: IRAN FINDS BLACK BOXES OF CRASHED UKRAINIAN AIRLINE, SAYS WON’T GIVE ...

London, Dec. 10, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Tanzanian President John Magufuli has pardoned more than 5,000 prisoners in a move aimed at reducing congestion in prisons. The president made the announcement on Monday as the country marked its 58th anniversary of independence. READ ALSO: KWARA GOVERNOR, ABDULRAZAQ VOWS TO JUMP START STATE ECONOMY WITH INFRASTRUCTURE He ordered that ...

London, Nov. 27, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Police in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, has arrested a lady identified as Halima Juma with 23 ATM cards allegedly tucked inside her private parts. According to k24TV the 23-year-old was suspected of stealing money from bank users after illegally obtaining their ATM cards. READ ALSO: 83 YEAR OLD AMERICAN WOMAN WHO ...

London, Nov. 19, 2019 (AltAfrica/Tazara)-The history of railways in Africa is simple and straight forward. Railway lines in Africa are some of the lasting legacies of colonialism. They are one of the few lasting structures and very few goodies (Even if the missions were exploitative) of that very sad era Great Britain, France, Germany, and ...

London, Nov. 13, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Tanzanian parliament on Tuesday passed amendments designed to allow HIV/AIDS self-testing and lowering the age of HIV testing without parental consent to 15 years. “These amendments will significantly accelerate our intentions to meet the 90-90-90 goals which aim at ending the AIDS epidemic by 2020,” Ummy Mwalimu, Minister for Health, told ...