Three journalists were arrested by police in the Mara region while following up on ethnic clashes in the Tarime district. The arrested journalists are Dismas Ayuke of the daily Kiswahili private paper "Majira", Erick Nampesya of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and Richard Mgamba of the Nairobi-based English weekly private paper "The East African".

While the delivery of development services has been made more efficient, and the gross domestic product (GDP) of Tanzania has grown by 5 per cent in recent years, poverty-reduction measures are not yet reaching the rural poor, and HIV/AIDS poses such a threat that it could reverse all the gains recently achieved, according to the UN country team for Tanzania.

A Japanese education grant to provide schooling for Tanzanian children forced to work due to poor economic conditions, has been lying idle for nearly a year now.

The President of the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar, Amani Abeid Karume, on Monday denied accusations by the human rights watchdog Amnesty International that the administration was holding political prisoners. Amani invited Amnesty to send representatives to Zanzibar to "witness what was happening for themselves," according to Tanzanian radio.