Vol 49 No 24 | TANZANIA Corruption credentials 28th November 2008 Tanzania’s judges have piles of files to read over the Christmas holiday. A flurry of former ministers, high-profile businessmen and ex-employees of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) were...
Vol 49 No 22 | TANZANIA Corruption countdown 31st October 2008 At last President Kikwete is pushing miscreants to return monies stolen from the central bank some might even be prosecuted Judgement day is coming for those individuals and companies who benefited from a 133 billion Tanzania shilling (US$117 million) fraud at the Bank of Tanzania (Central Bank), insis...
Vol 49 No 22 | TANZANIA Islamic alliance 31st October 2008 The government proposes membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference and splits national opinion Foreign Minister Bernard Membe's announcement that the government was considering joining the Organisation of Islamic Conference has reopened a national controversy. A decade ago, ...
Vol 49 No 13 | TANZANIA Graft at the top 20th June 2008 Soon after his December 2005 inauguration, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete replied to critics who said he was too soft to run a country bogged down in corruption: ‘I may be wearing...
Vol 49 No 4 | TANZANIA Cleaning the stables 15th February 2008 Parliament exposed the Prime Minister's wrongdoing and now the President has sacked nine ministers Kizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda, who served as Private Secretary to three Tanzanian presidents, Julius Nyerere, Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Benjamin Mkapa, is President Jakaya Kikwete's surp...
Vol 49 No 2 | TANZANIA 'I know the corrupt' 16th January 2008 President Kikwete says he is giving the grafters one last chance to change After two years of talk, is President Jakaya Kikwete now serious about stamping out corruption? He did sack Bank of Tanzania Governor Daudi Balali on 9 January for corrupt practice...
Vol 49 No 2 | TANZANIA The gang's all here 16th January 2008 President Jakaya Kikwete’s appointments often annoy his colleagues. In 2005, he took almost a month to announce his cabinet, because the stalwarts in the governing Chama Cha Mapind...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 10 | ANGOLATANZANIACHINA Flying higher 3rd November 2008 Chinese investors are to rescue Tanzania's state-owned airline and rennovate Julius Nyerere International Airport Talks on a complex three-party investment deal between China and Angola and the ailing Air Tanzania Company are nearing conclusion, officials have confirmed in Dar es Salaam. The ...
Vol 48 No 14 | TANZANIA Politics of the sieve 6th July 2007 The government has been sitting on a multimillion dollar scandal at the Bank of Tanzania, waiting for it to erupt. It has. The 'government will continue fighting against carelessness and make sure public servants deliver to the expectations of the wananchi [citizens] and the government'. While Presiden...
Vol 48 No 14 | TANZANIA Economics of the sieve 6th July 2007 Millions of dollars in revenue from natural resources slip past the government's coffers due to smuggling, a lack of administrative capacity and collusion with politicians. No less...