This morning, something momentous occurred in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa at the African Union headquarters! The African Heads of State alongside our dear Vice President Maj. Jessica Alupo converged at Julius Nyerere Peace and Security building at the African Union headquarters and unveiled a special monument in honour of Dr Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. Nyerere…
The International Monetary Fund has agreed to a funding program with six East African countries. So far, the global lender has approved the payment of $620.65 million in budgetary support for them including Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This is a small part of the commitment that totals $1.92 billion. The…
Africa should strive and start a continental media outlet that would promote African interests, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said. He said this while delivering a lecture on opportunities to a visiting delegation of Senior Military Officers from the National Defense College of Kenya led by the Deputy Commandant of the College Major General Kahariri.…
Senior officials from Uganda’s petroleum authority (PAU) and Tanzania’s energy and water utilities regulatory authority (EWURA)—the agencies that have regulatory powers over the oil industry in the two countries—have renewed their commitment to secure the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). The officials have agreed to jointly cooperate in the regulation and monitoring of the…
Uganda Airlines is planning to acquire its first narrow-body jets, interim chief executive Jenifer Bamuturaki has disclosed. The state-owned airline currently operates four two A330-800s and four CRJ900s, the ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows, on flights that connect its Entebbe/Kampala base with Burundi, Tanzania, South Sudan, Kenya, the DRC, and Somalia regionally as well as South Africa and the United Arab Emirates…
In a televised address on Thursday night, Tanzania vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan said that Magufuli had died of heart complications. “It is with great regret that I inform you that today, 17 March 2021, at 18:00, we have lost our courageous leader, President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania,” said Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania Vice President.…
Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has declared his country free of Coronavirus, saying prayers and fasting by Tanzanians is reason for the country to defeat the killer virus. President John Magufuli attributed the claimed success over the worldwide pandemic to prayers and fasting that the people of Tanzania have offered to God. “It gives me…
Tension is rising at the Taveta-Holili border after Tanzania blocked Kenyan drivers from crossing into the neighboring country amid Covid-19 measures row. A Report by Citizen TV in Kenya on Sunday morning, showed that Tanzania blocked entry of Kenyan Cargo trucks at Taveta – Holili border causing heavy traffic as truck drivers remained stranded without…
Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli is now casting aspersions on the COVID-19 testing kits donated to Africa by donors. In a viral video, President Magufuli claimed samples taken from a paw paw, qail and goat and sneaked in the country’s laboratory tasked with carrying out coronavirus test had turned out positive. Magufuli said he instructed security agencies to investigate the results…
Tanzania’s Minister of Constitutional and Legal Affairs Augustine Mahiga 74, has died today Friday May 1 in Dodoma after a short illness, The Citizen reports. The Directorate of Presidential Communications announced the Minister’s death in a statement released on Friday May 1, 2020. The statement said Dr. Mahiga died suddenly at his home in Dodoma. “By the…
