WANANCHI wa Gambia wameingiwa na hofu juu ya usalama wa maisha yao baada ya taarifa kusambaa kwamba maji ya chupa ya kunywa yanayodaiwa kutengenezwa Tanzania, yana sumu – na...
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WATOTO wadogo 21 wenye umri wa kati ya miaka mitatu (3) na 11, wanashikiliwa na Jeshi la Polisi, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania kwa kukutwa ndani ya nyumba moja jijini...
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Mwanajeshi, mwandishi watuhumiwa kuua mtu na kuficha mwili Mtwara. Ndugu wataka Sirro, Mabeyo wachukue hatua
IMETIMIA miezi miwili tangu Azizi Juma (40), mkazi wa Ligula katika Manispaa ya Mtwara Mikindani, Wilaya ya Mtwara, apotezwe akiwa mikononi mwa maofisa wa Jeshi la Wananchi wa Tanzania...
BAADA ya yote yaliyotokea, napenda kusema kuwa Job Ndugai, aliyekuwa Spika wa Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano tangu mwaka 2015 hadi tarehe 6 Januari 2022, amefukuzwa kihuni. Hajajiuzulu. Vielelezo...
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NOTES ON PUBLIC DEBT, THE NDUGAI QUESTION AND LUXURY BELIEFS FROM OUR TECHNOCRATS
MY notes follow the public discussion on Sunday 2nd of January, 2022, over a Zoom video teleconferencing that was all about Tanzania’s Borrowing Sustainability, which brought together a good...
“YEAR’S end is neither an end nor a begining but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us”~ Hal Borland It was a very...
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MEMO TO OUR MISLEADERS: TANZANIA’S PUBLIC DEBT WILL SOON BEGIN TO BITE
IT is Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israel diplomat and politician, who said, “men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” This week, one of the...
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TANZANIA PUBLIC DEBT SUSTAINABILITY; QUANTITATIVE OR QUALITATIVE METRICS?
ONE of the interesting topics in the budget discussions at the moment, is the public debt issue. The original part of this debate gravitates on our aspirations as a...
MUCH of government policy in Tanzania is targeting recovery. We shouldn’t forget, however, that even when the economy was growing rapidly, the growth profile remained jobless and barely sustained....
A decade ago, Dr. Azaveli Lwaitama, one of Tanzania’s towering public intellectuals, pronounced, “the Tanzania project is in tatters.” Dr. Lwaitama was reflecting on Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere’s major...