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CHINA AND TANZANIA

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In addition to its promise of help in the energy crisis Chinese President Hu Jintao told President Kikwete after his arrival from Japan in November that China would also continue its assistance in the Chalinze water project aimed at supplying water to Sangasanga and Ngerengere areas, to boost operations of the Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) until its privatisation, and renovate Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar, Radio Tanzania Zanzibar, and various malaria projects. President Kikwete was in China at a summit of over 40 other African leaders, to discuss sustainable co-operation between China and Africa – Daily News.

THE ENERGY CRISIS

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The crisis in Tanzania’s power sector has worsened during recent months due to a combination of very low water levels in hydropower dams because of poor rains, failures of generators and suspicions that contracts with suppliers of generating equipment may not have been above board. As a result, power rationing became serious for industry and other consumers and this affected revenue receipts and the viability of businesses. TANESCO was plunged into a financial crisis after its power generating costs went up dams produced well below capacity. To solve the problem, it switched to thermal generation, which is expensive to run. Continue reading →

ENGLISH FOOTBALL – TANZANIA’S FAVOURITE TEAMS

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An opinion poll conducted by the BBC has found that the Arsenal team and its captain Thierry Henry are the most admired players in English football. About 90% of the people interviewed confirmed that they regularly watched the English Premier League. Manchester United came second and Chelsea third. However, Drogba was the only African player to make the top ten. Told of the poll, an Arsenal spokesperson said: “As a club we are thrilled so many football fans in Africa pick Arsenal and Henry as their favourite. We work hard to maintain links with supporters worldwide, through community outreach projects and supporter initiatives, and hope that those links grow stronger over the coming seasons.”

ArsenalThe Arsenal squad with Thierry Henry holding the penant

“A HEALTH TONIC FROM GOD”

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This is how Sister Levina describes Moringa Oleifera, a medicinal tree being grown by the ‘Medical Missionaries of Mary’ at their training centre in the Maasai village of Ngaremtoni. Moringa is nutritionally rich, drought resistant and extremely fast-growing, and can be harvested as little as 5 months after being planted. Nutritionally, the plant is at its optimum when the leaves are dried into a powder, which can be added to food or drinks. Gram for gram, Moringa leaf powder contains 10 times the vitamin A content of carrots, 9 times the protein content of yoghurt, 17 times the calcium content of milk, and 25 times the iron content of spinach. Indeed, research in Senegal has found that using Moringa powder reduces levels of anaemia in pregnant women, improves birth weights and development in babies and produces better quality breastmilk. Continue reading →

TANZANIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

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The ECONOMIST wrote at length about Tanzania in its September 28 issue. Brief extracts: ‘For the moment, Tanzania is one of East Africa’s few good-news stories. That isn’t saying much. The country remains wretchedly poor, inefficient, with little medical care in its remote areas, few roads and with frequent power cuts, even in Dar es Salaam. But donors, disillusioned by the corruption and/or brutality that goes on elsewhere, are happy to pour money into somewhere that is, at least, both peaceful and stable. And in Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania has found a president committed to doing his best to cut poverty. Continue reading →

MISCELLANY

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Former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa has been elected chairman of the Board of the South Centre, based in Geneva. He takes over from Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali The South Centre which was established in 1996, plays the role of a ‘Think Tank’ for the South, with the task of defining and implementing analysis, research and consultation programmes; collection, systematising, analysing, and disseminating relevant information concerning South-South and North-South relations. Continue reading →

OBITUARIES

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Father Vincent Bailey (69) who was brought up in a council house in Glasgow and never forgot his roots, has died. He worked in Tanzania from 1976 to 1985 at Catholic missions in Kigoma, Mulera and Kabanga. He also taught at the seminary at Kahangala, Mwanza and served for a few years as Assistant Regional Superior for the western part of the country – Thank you John Sankey for this from ‘White Fathers – White Sisters’ – Editor

REVIEWS

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Edited by John Cooper-Poole (UK) and Marion Doro (USA)

THE AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY NETWORK: REPORTS AND A REVIEW
edited by Felix Chami, Gilbert Pwiti and Chantal Radimilahy. Dar es Salaam University Press, 2004 (distributed in Britain by African Books Collective, Oxford); ix+187 pp. ISBN 9976-60-408(410)-4.

This is the fourth set of papers in the series, Studies in the African Past, produced in as many years by the University Press in Dar es Salaam. That in itself belies the common perception that effective scholarship, and serious publication too, are barely manageable locally. More than that, this series, reporting archaeological fieldwork in several countries of eastern and southern Africa – and in the present volume extending to West Africa – attests a range of recent endeavours directed from a number of universities, including Dar es Salaam, and should be setting an example to academics in certain other disciplines where the spirit of active research has become moribund. Continue reading →

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Tanzanian Affairs is a magazine with news and current affairs issued by the Britain-Tanzania Society. It is published three times a year. The views expressed or reported are those of the person concerned and do not necessarily represent the views of the Britain-Tanzania Society. All the information is copyright – please refer here for more details.