The South African government should not have handed a Tanzanian citizen, Khalfan Mohamed, to the United States for trial without assurances from the US that he would not be executed if found guilty. The May 28 ruling by the South African Constitutional Court was welcomed by the country's human rights lawyers and activists who objected to Mohamed's deportation to the US when he was originally arrested.

The JRS-backed Radio Kwizera has donated 50 solar powered free-play radio sets to schools in the refugee camps of Ngara and Biharamulo districts of Tanzania, the Catholic NGO Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS) reported on Friday. Forty six of the radios would be used by primary schools in the camps of Lukole, Lumasi and Kitali to monitor education programmes produced and broadcast by Radio Kwizera, it said.

The IMF has commended Tanzania for continued impressive economic performance, saying it may soon qualify for extensive debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, AFP reports. Jürgen Reitmaier, leader of an IMF team on a two-week mission to Tanzania, said on Friday that most of the benchmarks set under the Fund's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) have been met.

The World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday played down reports in the Tanzania media of refugees abandoning their homes to escape hungry refugees who were marauding in the community and taking food by force in Kibondo District, Kigoma Region, western Tanzania. The 'Guardian' newspaper on Thursday quoted Kibondo police sources as saying that they did not have enough officers to control the refugees who had abandoned their camps because they did not have enough food.

The Tanzanian government on Wednesday denied and termed as "unfounded" allegations by the Burundian government that it had been offering military training to Burundian rebels. Tanzanian radio quoted the permanent secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Hasan Kibelloh, as saying that Tanzania was not supporting any rebel group fighting the Burundian government.