By ROSE MIREMBE A week after the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine for dengue, Dengvaxia, Tanzania is working to contain the spread of an outbreak that was first reported...
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Tanzania boosts Ebola response in border regions
In Summary The ministry sets up special health facility zones in communities near Lake Tanganyika. A team of experts has been dispatched to the six regions bordering DR Congo to help in surveillance...
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Burundian refugees in Tanzania to return home
In Summary UNHCR said that more than 20,000 refugees have registered to return to Burundi in the programme that targets at least 72,000 Burundians. By March 22, at least 20,739 Burundian refugees...
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DR Congo refugees flee to Tanzania
In Summary Political uncertainty has risen after the postponement of elections. President Kabila had already exceeded the constitutional two-term limit, but a court ruled that he could stay in office...
US cancels $472m Tanzania aid deal over Zanzibar election
By Erick Kabendera Tanzania has lost $472 million in development support after a United States agency suspended an aid deal over governance concerns including Zanzibar elections re-run and...
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Burundi refugees live in squalor in Tanzanian camps, but they still prefer life there
By ELIAS MHEGERA IN SUMMARY The United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Unicef have warned of the displacement of people and food insecurity and the risk of a...
Tanzania sends help to region as floods kill 42
The government Thursday sent emergency humanitarian relief supplies to over 900 flood victims in Kahama district, in Shinyanga region, northwest Tanzania, who were affected by Tuesday night’s storm...
Move to boost food security increases risk of plague
By CHRISTABEL LIGAMI, TEA Special Correspondent IN SUMMARY Plague is an ancient disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that continues to infect kill people even in the 21st century. Plague...
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Refugees to call Tanzania home
By ERIC KABENDERA The EastAfrican Posted Saturday, June 7 2014 at 15:26 IN SUMMARY The ministry has also granted citizenship to 162,256 Burundians who migrated to Tanzania in 1972, ending a decade...
Public health nightmare: East Africa put on high alert over dengue fever outbreak
By JOINT REPORT The EastAfrican At the Ubungo bus terminus outside Dar es Salaam’s central business district, a contingent of law enforcers and officials from the Surface and Maritime Transport...
Tanzania to adopt irrigation law to improve food security
By KIZITO MAKOYE Special Correspondent IN SUMMARY Analysts say the National Irrigation Act 2013 should give the country’s agriculture sector a new lease of life, in the face of changing weather...
2014: Poor rainfall, shortage of food for Tanzania
IN SUMMARY The food security report also shows the country experienced a rain shortage during the 2012/2013 season that led to production of food grains totalling 1.8 million tonnes, 435,000 tonnes...
Tanzania’s HIV patients abandon ARVs for traditional ‘cure’
By ADAM IHUCHA, Special Correspondent HIV-POSITIVE patients in Tanzania’s lake area are abandoning their anti-retroviral regimens in favour of traditional therapy, hampering efforts to reduce the...
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Tanzania plans to use bacteria to eliminate mosquito larvae
By JOINT REPORT The EastAfrican Posted Saturday, April 6 2013 at 18:48 IN SUMMARY The government has already provided 75 per cent of the funding needed to complete a $22 million biolarvicide factory...
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Plan mooted to train 15,000 midwives
By CHRISTABEL LIGAMI Special Correspondent In Summary The African Medical Research Foundation (Amref) has partnered with health ministries to execute the three-year programme. The three-year campaign...
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Tanzania gets $897m for food security
By ROSEMARY MIRONDO Special Correspondent Posted Saturday, August 25 2012 at 18:23 In Summary The funds will be used in the Southern zone, Rukwa, Ruvuma, Iringa, Mbeya and Coast, Morogoro, regions...
Tanzania farmers slow to embrace Kilimo Kwanza
Is this the end of Kilimo Kwanza, the Tanzanian project to transform peasant farming into modern agriculture? Two years since the public private initiative was launched, small and middle-scale...
Tanzania caught napping as floods wreak havoc
By JOHN MBALAMWEZI Tanzania was last week left nursing heavy losses after heavy rainfall wreaked hundreds of homes and towns, crippling transport, catching Dar es Salaam off guard and exposing the...
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Tanzania halts resettlement of naturalised Burundi refugees
By MIKE MANDE TANZANIA HAS halted the resettlement of naturalised Burundi refugees to selected regions over security concerns. Shamsi Nahodha, Minister for Home Affairs, said the government needed...
Tanzania security forces warn against election chaos
Tanzania's top security forces have issued a strong warning against the rising cases of election violence saying it had potential of plunging the country into civil unrest. In a joint press...