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Correspondent,The London Wire The Amnesty International network, respected for her great human rights work, has published one of the most fallacious analysis on its lifetime titled thus: Tanzania: Authorities Rushing to Pass bill to Further Repress Human Rights.” Our analysis of the framing in the article and reality on the ground leads to one single conclusion; the article is a sponsored complaint from one of the NGOs who are not ready to follow the laws of the land. Starting with the misleading headline of the story, the writer says… authorities rushing to pass a bill.   Amnesty International must understand that Tanzania as an independent country sets time and date of its own to discuss and debate on various issues. Issues of “rushing” are non- applicable to any independent country as each country has its legal procedures in place. Our correspondent in Dodoma, Tanzania’s Capital has confirmed that contrary to Amnesty, the public and other civil society e...

16 Juin 2019 DAR ES SALAA et NAIROBI Pour la première fois depuis plus de 50 ans d'indépendance de la Tanzanie, le président John Magufuli et son gouvernement ont décidé de créer l'Ombudsman du Bureau indépendant de la fiscalité des contribuables, qui fonctionnera sous l'autorité du ministère des Finances et de la Planification afin de résoudre les plaintes du secteur des affaires contre le gouvernement tanzanien. Autorité (TRA). Le gouvernement du président Magufuli procède à des transformations rapides dans le secteur des affaires pour éliminer les obstacles imposés par la TRA à la communauté des affaires, ce qui a entraîné la fermeture de nombreuses entreprises et la perte de revenus pour le gouvernement. En présentant à l'Assemblée nationale les prévisions budgétaires du budget des revenus et des dépenses du gouvernement pour 2019/2020 à Dodoma cette semaine, le ministre des Finances et de la Planification, Philip Mpango, a déclaré que le bu...

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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto at the Lake Region Economic Bloc conference in Bomet, in teh Rift Valley, on October 22, 2018. Analysts say the 2019/2020 budget did not factor the needs of smallholder farmers. President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Big Four agenda informed many of the proposals in the budget. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP    The Kenya government’s pet projects under the Big Four Agenda — critical to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s legacy — were allocated $4.3 billion from the $28 billion 2019/2020 budget. In his speech in parliament this past week on Thursday, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich said this year’s budget “lays a strong foundation for achieving the president’s Big Four agenda.” The allocation represents less than 14 per cent of the total budget. The projects are supposed to ensure universal health coverage, affordable and decent housing, to increase the manufacturing contr...

  “Our unity is our strength and foundation for building a strong nation/PSCU By PSCU , NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 16 – President Uhuru Kenyatta has restated his resolve to unite the country and called on leaders to stop unnecessary politics for the sake of national cohesion and progress. The President pointed out that national unity is the foundation for achieving the country’s development targets, saying his main interest is to ensure that Kenyans are not divided along tribal, racial or religious lines. ADVERTISEMENT “Our unity is our strength and foundation for building a strong nation. A nation that will be able to achieve its development targets so that the children of our children will remember that there was a time when Kenyans forgot tribalism, stopped corruption and built a country that provided jobs for the youth, drugs in hospitals and ensured no Kenyan slept hungry,” the President said. He emphasised the need for Kenyans to live together peacefully...

DAR ES SALAA and NAIROBI For the first time in more than 50 years of Tanzania independence, President John Magufuli and his government have decided to establish the Independent Office of Taxpayers Ombudsman that will operate under the arm of the Ministry of Finance and Planning to resolve business community’s complains against Tanzania’s Revenue Authority (TRA). President Magufuli’s government is making quick transformations in the business sector to remove obstacles that TRA has been imposing on the business community that have resulted into many businesses to close down as well causing the government to lose revenues. Presenting to the National Assembly the estimates of government Revenue and Expenditure budget for 2019/2020 in Dodoma this week, the Finance Minister and Planning Dr. Philip   Mpango said the independent office of Taxpayers Ombudsman will receive tax complains from taxpayers and the public in general on how TRA is operating in the country. Specifi...

Le président tanzanien, John Magufuli, a souligné un certain nombre de problèmes qui ont perturbé le climat des affaires dans ce pays d'Afrique orientale et s'est engagé à les résoudre. Le dirigeant tanzanien a critiqué les institutions publiques pour avoir créé un climat commercial défavorable. Le chef de l'Etat s'est adressé à des hommes d'affaires de premier plan dans la capitale commerciale, Dar es Salaam, lors d'une réunion retransmise en direct par la télévision publique Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC ). Selon lui, l'existence de procédures administratives excessivement compliquées au sein du gouvernement était l'un des facteurs qui ont découragé la croissance durable des activités commerciales, comme l'a rapporté Xinhua. Il a en outre déclaré que les hommes d’affaires de tous les districts et régions du pays estimaient que la bureaucratie actuelle au sein du gouvernement empêchait le milieu des affaires de s’épanouir dans...