The ICTR and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), between 11 April and 13 April 2011, jointly organized an Expert Meeting on Complementarities between International Refugee Law, International Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law. The meeting, hosted by the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania, was part of a series of commemorative events organized by the UNHCR in the context of the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. This meeting brought... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, April 15th 2011 |
By Own Correspondent, Dodoma – The draft Constitution Reform Bill, which caused debates across the country has now been officially removed from the Parliamentary process, Speaker of the House, Ms. Anne Makinda confirmed here. Earlier sources close to the government hinted that the government was forced to send it back to the chief drafter following massive resistance to the Bill in both sides of the Union-Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar Isles. The Bill which was under the parliamentary Legal, Constitutional and Public Administration Committee for internal deliberations, the information showed, will be sent back to the government in order to incorporate... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, April 15th 2011 |
By Own Correspondent, Dodoma – The National Assembly yesterday unanimously voted the Manyara Special Seats MP (rulling party CCM), Martha Umbulla to represent the House to the National Governing Council of the African Union’s governance body, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Tanzania chapter amid chaos and confrontations which ushered in the House between legislators from the ruling party, CCM and the main opposition Chadema, Shout-Africa reporter who attended the proceedings witnessed. The fracas started when the House was sitting to select representatives apart from the APRM five others to the Pan African Parliament and three members as House Chairpersons, leaving... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, April 14th 2011 |
By Own Correspondent, Dodoma – Three public leaders yesterday appeared before the now re-invigorated Ethics Tribunal in Dar es Salaam facing various charges of not adhering to the Public Leadership Code of Ethics as stipulated by the 1995 Act. According to our Dar es Salaam sources arraigned to the tribunal before its chairperson, Judge (rtd) Damian Lubuva, all the accused pleaded not guilty to the charges. Those who appeared in the tribunal include the Singida District commissioner, Paschal Mabiti, Mbulu district executive director, Simon Mayeye and Rorya MP (CCM), Lameck Airo. The tribunal has said that a number of 23... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, April 12th 2011 |
By Own Correspondent, Dodoma – The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) last night announced here in the country’s political capital a new secretariat team, with former permanent secretary in the ministry of Water and Irrigation, Mr. Wilson Mukama named as the party’s new secretary general. Mr. Mukama replacing Yusuf Makamba. However the Makamba family name will remain in the Secretariat as his son, January Makamba was appointed to the post of head of foreign affairs party unit. Young Makamba was a foreign service career servant and graduated from the USA in conflict and peace studies replacing Mr. Bernard Membe, the current minister for Foreign... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, April 12th 2011 |
