By Own Correspondent, Dar es Salaam – The Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday delivered the first ever judgment on one of the high profile External Payment Arrears (EPA) cases, sentencing Farijala Hussein and Rajabu Maranda to jail terms of 19 and 18 years respectively upon convictions on separate counts. Maranda (right) and Farjala being escorted to Prison after the sentence. Maranda and Farjala under police van to Ukonga Prison They will however serve only five years in jail because the sentences run concurrently. The two were charged with eight counts involving stealing of over Sh. 1.8 billion from the EPA... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, May 24th 2011 |
By Kizito Makoye in Dar es Salaam – Tanzania’s anti-corruption bureau has at last released the state-of-corruption report amid mounting pressure from foreign donors- who threatened to withhold aid unless its findings were made public. In his desperate bid to salvage the country from further aid freeze, amid surging financial strains, President Jakaya Kikwete did not take chances-he ordered immediate release of the report ostensibly to ease the existing diplomatic strain with donors. Donors funds Meanwhile donors resolved to dish out aid to the tune of $562million in Tanzania General Budget Support for the 2011/12 financial year. The GBS... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, May 21st 2011 |
By Elias Mhegera – THERE are indications that leaders in Tanzania are now losing the speed that the incumbent president Jakaya Kikwete had earlier promised due to lack of preparation in the top managerial capacity. In 2006 President Kikwete met with cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries and their deputies to chart out what they should do in order to support him in his first five years, but the drastic fall from the over 80 percent of the cast votes in 2005, to 61 percent of the presidential votes during the last year’s General Election sent a strong message that things did... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, May 14th 2011 |
The eLearning Africa conference programme for 2011 features contributions from 260 speakers from 49 countries, including representatives from global organisations such as UNEP, UNESCO/UNEVOC and the World Bank, as well as from national educational institutions across Africa. Berlin, Germany. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. eLearning Africa 2011 has set its sights on unlocking the potential of young Africans, the innovative use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and training for teaching, healthcare, farming and banking professionals in Africa. The conference agenda is now online at http://tinyurl.com/4x82o48. eLearning Africa is the largest pan-African conference about Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development, Education... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, May 12th 2011 |
Written by Kizito Makoye in Dar es Salaam – The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania (ELCT) has introduced telemedicine- a distant diagnosis platform in which health workers use cell phone technology to carry out distance diagnosis through a web-based programme. Cell phone diagnosis-which was initially applied in the field of dermatology (skin disorders) -has apparently come to the rescue of many patients in rural Tanzania- who could not be diagnosed due to lack of expertise necessitated by poor logistics and infrastructures. Through telemedicine- clinical officers could use of their cell phones to capture images and record information of complex... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, May 5th 2011 |
