Tanzania

The Prime Minister of Tanzania, Frederick Sumaye, has said that tough pre-conditions were making it difficult for Tanzania to take advantage of debt relief under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, the 'Guardian' newspaper reported on Tuesday.

President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, where two million people are infected with the HIV virus, has said he is confident the country should be able to reverse the spread of the disease in the next five years, given the current level of nationwide mobilisation against the epidemic. "We are now at a stage of all-round mobilisation that will result in the total reversal of the trend in the next five years," the UNDP quoted Mkapa as saying at a press conference in New York last week to coincide w...read more

A CBI team has seized documents from the Indian mission in Tanzania to probe a visa racket involving an Indian revenue service officer, who has been suspended for alleged cheating and forging of documents.

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A joint communique, issued after a recent meeting between the defence ministers of Burundi and Tanzania, noted that security along the common border had not improved "in spite of the strong political will which exists between the two countries".

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