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By Special Correspondent, Tanga, Tanzania and Mombasa, Kenya THE leading Muslim cleric in Tanzania has condemned the alarming moral decay in the country, particularly homosexual practices, warning of looming disasters from God if the condemned acts are not tamed. “Neither holly religious books nor the laws of Tanzania accept such terrible acts. Religious leaders from all denominations should come out and speak out strongly against the vices,” Tanzania’s Chief Sheikh, Mufti Abubakar Zubeiry bin Ally, preached during the Mawlid celebrations yesterday to commemorate the birthday of Proohet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Mufti expressed concerns that the vices would turn the country into a barren land through destruction from God. Alhaj Abubakar cited destruction of cities narrated in the Holy Books, due to acts of homosexuality. Minister of State in the President Office (Regional Administration and Local Governments,) Mr Suleiman Jaffo, supported the sentiments by the Mufti, u...

By Special Correspondent, DAR ES SALAAM The World Bank (WB) has expressed its content with the way Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli manages the economy and his pursuit of anti graft war. The Bank has now agreed to release a total of 300 million USD for implementation of education projects aimed at improving education standards through construction of classrooms, hostels, and quarters for civil servants and teaching aids. The Bank’s Vice President for Africa, Dr. Hafez Ghanem, who met President Magufuli at Dar es Salaam State House on Friday, commended the President for his economic reforms that have seen the Tanzanian economy maintaining positive acceleration. The African Development Bank (AfDB) just released economic outlook report for 2018, places Tanzania’s GDP growth at second place after Ethiopia in the Eastern Africa Region with Tanzania leading the East Africa sub-region. Dr. Ghanem was also pleased by the President’s unrivalled success and a...

Wednesday November 14 2018 Kenya Airways plane pictured at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the United States after landing on October 29, 2018. PHOTO | COURTESY  In Summary Airline says cuts are part of normal operational decisions. KQ did not disclose the specific days affected by this latest change in flight schedules. It says flight schedules for unaffected months remain same in the long-haul route that was launched two weeks ago Advertisement By ANNIE NJANJA More by this Author National carrier Kenya Airways (KQ) has cut back the number of flights on the recently launched Nairobi-New York route citing low demand during the winter season. KQ, as the airline is popularly known, said it has rescheduled flights for the period covering November to March next year. “The winter schedule for all our flights took effect from Oct 28 (day of the Nairobi New York flight launch) and will run until March 30...

By Staff Writers, DAR and KAMPALA President Magufuli launching the SGR last year Railway trasport is the second most important mode of transport after road and critical for long distance freight along the main trasport corridors in the East Africa’s fastest gworing economy, Tanzania.   By considering so, the reformist President of Tanzania, Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, is doing heavy investement on the construction of   Standard Gauge   Railway   (SGR) and improvement of another Central Rail line sketching for about 2,600 kilometres. Mr. Kadogosa Adressing the media in Dar es salaam on Wednesday, the Director General of Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC), Mr. Masanja Kadogosa, told reporters that   the 3 billion USD standard gauge railway construction from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma which is at 34 percent delivery, is largely financed by the government’s own coffers, thanks to Magufuli’s vision and inspiration. Part of the SGR will be a 2....

By Munir Kalidushi, KAMPALA,  16:30 GMT    Intimidating independent nations across the developing nations is part of what the US defines as international democracy. They have caused endless atrocities in Africa, Asia and Latin America in that name. They have assassinated Presidents, overthrown governments and provoked violence in many places. To them, the argument would be and is always democracy, human rights and countless other meaningless phrases.  What is democracy to the US is something of a mystery; they have sabotaged democratically elected leaders, they have overthrown the leaders who were really transforming their countries and who brought about stability in those nations to destroying national institutions.   The Obama and now Trump administrations were believed to bring about changes to that old but stubborn US policy. Unfortunately, the reality is different. The recent statement of the US Embassy to Ta...

TRIBUTES are flowing for the United Nations’ high-profile and well-respected former Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who has died. Ads by FORMER United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan has died at age 80. Mr Annan died in the early hours of Saturday in Switzerland after a short illness, according to a statement issued by his family. The Nobel Peace Laureate was the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from January 1997 to December 2006, and became the first black African man to take on the top job as the world’s top diplomat. He was founder and Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, which issued a statement on social media, saying: “It is with immense sadness that the Annan family and the Kofi Annan Foundation announce that Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate, passed away peacefully on Saturday 18th August after a short illness...” “His wife Nane and their children Ama, Kojo and Nina were by his side duri...