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Tanzania: Post-election crackdown and intimidation underway with ‘arrest and release’ of opposition leaders
30 October 2020 Authorities in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar have mounted a campaign of intimidation, arbitrary detention and subsequent release of opposition leaders from the...
Secretary-General Urges United Republic of Tanzania Stakeholders to Ensure Peaceful, Inclusive Participation in Upcoming Elections
SG/SM/20370 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary‑General António Guterres: As Tanzanians prepare to take part in the general elections scheduled for 28 October,...
Tanzania: Opposition politicians arrested as crackdown escalates ahead of elections
In response to the arrest of opposition leader Zitto Kabwe, leader of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT), along with seven other officials of the party, Seif Magango, Amnesty...
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Burundi Situation: UNHCR Regional Update (January-February 2020)
337,179 Burundian refugees residing in the main hosting countries (United Republic of Tanzania, Rwanda, the DRC, Uganda). 1,247 Burundian refugees assisted to voluntarily return in February 2020 – no...
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Good Neighbors International Celebrated the last graduation of Maloregwa Vocation Training in 2019 at Nduta Refugee Camp
Maloregwa Vocational Training Center is located in between the host community and Nduta refugee camp in the Kibondo district, Kigoma region of western Tanzania. Good Neighbors International...
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Good Neighbors International celebrates graduation of vocational training programs in Nduta refugee camp
Maloregwa Vocational Training Center (MVTC) located in the vicinity of Nduta refugee camp, Kibondo district, Kigoma region of Tanzania, has been equipping Burundian refugees and Tanzanian host...
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Good Neighbors promotes self-reliance and peaceful coexistence through a vocational training program at Nduta refugee camp
Nduta refugee camp is located in Kibondo district, Kigoma Region, Tanzania, accommodating 93,743 refugees; most of them are Burundians as of November 30th 2018. Good Neighbors International (GNI),...
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UNHCR Regional Update 36 - Burundi Situation, April 2017
KEY FIGURES 409,662 New Burundian refugees in asylum countries since April 2015 as of 30 April 2017 FUNDING USD 250 million Requested for the overall situation through UNHCR's Supplementary Appeal...
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UNHCR Regional Update 35 - Burundi Situation, March 2017
KEY FIGURES 405,106 New Burundian refugees in asylum countries since April 2015 as of 31 March 2017 FUNDING USD 214.5 million Requested by UNHCR for the overall Burundi Situation in 2017 PRIORITIES ...
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UNHCR Regional Update 34 - Burundi Situation, February 2017
KEY FIGURES 404,226 New Burundian refugees in asylum countries since April 2015 as of 28 February 2017 FUNDING USD 214.5 million Requested by UNHCR for the overall Burundi Situation in 2017 ...
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UNHCR Regional Update 33 - Burundi Situation, January 2017
KEY FIGURES 386,833 New Burundian refugees in asylum countries since April 2015 as of 31 January 2017 FUNDING USD 214.5 million Requested by UNHCR for the overall Burundi Situation in 2017 HIGHLIGHTS ...
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...
African Union Commission Chairperson approves the deployment of an election expert mission to observe the re-run elections in Zanzibar – the semi-autonomous region of the United Republic of Tanzania
Addis Ababa, 16 March 2016: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Her Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has approved the deployment of a team of six (6) election experts to follow the...
EU observation of Tanzania’s most competitive elections
The 25 October 2015 general elections in Tanzania were the most competitive and contested since the re-introduction of multi-party democracy. Across the country, from Lake Victoria in the north to...
Ban welcomes ‘peaceful and orderly’ elections in Tanzania
30 October 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated the people, Government and political parties of Tanzania for the peaceful and orderly manner in which the country held its...
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UNHCR Regional Update 6 - Burundi Situation, 16 June 2015
Highlights On 11 June, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit, stepped down as facilitator of the peace-talks between the Burundian government,...
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UNHCR Regional Update 5 - Burundi Situation, 9 June 2015
HIGHLIGHTS On 8 June, Burundi’s Electoral Commission (CENI) proposed possible dates for the upcoming elections – 15 July for presidential elections (originally scheduled for 26 June) and 29 June for...
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UNHCR Regional Update 4 - Burundi Situation, 26 May - 1 June 2015
HIGHLIGHTS The Summit of Heads of States of the East African Community (EAC) was convened in Dar-es-Salaam on 31 May; however Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza did not take part. At the...
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Operational Plan 2011-2016 DFID Tanzania Updated December 2014
Context Tanzania has made impressive development gains since the transition from state run socialism to a market economy in the 1980s and 1990s. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates averaged 7%...