The 20th Tanzania Economic Update (TEU) shows that accelerating a fertility decline has the potential to enable the country to reap the benefits of a demographic dividend, which refers to how improved health and reduced fertility can drive economic growth. When a country experiences better health outcomes and fewer births, …
Use of oral vaccines is proving to be an effective tool to control outbreaks of cholera, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, adding that the deadly water-borne disease is a major public health concern from Tanzania to South Sudan, and Nepal to Yemen. The use of Oral Cholera Vaccines …
Tanzania's parliament on Sunday approved a legal and regulatory framework for developing its nascent hydrocarbons industry, after days of contentious debate. East Africa has become a new oil and gas frontier after a string of discoveries that producers hope to exploit to supply energy-hungry Asian markets. Tanzania estimates it has …
Arusha — Establishment of 17 new Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) is in the offing, according to Natural Resources and Tourism Minister, Mr Lazaro Nyalandu. He told a two-day forum for government, WMAs, tour operators and conservationists here that the government is collaborating with local communities surrounding national parks and game …
ORGANISED criminals including dynamite fishermen and poachers have their days numbered as government teams up with European Union and World Bank to contain spiraling environmental crime. Home Affairs Minister, Mathias Chikawe, Fisheries and Livestock Minister, Dr Titus Kamani, World Bank Country Director for Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, Phillipe Dongier and …
TANZANIA has been hailed for registering major achievements in attaining Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) number four for reducing under- five mortality from 161 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 54 per 1,000 live births now. The United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) Representative, Dr Jama Gulaid, said in Dar es …
U.S. intelligence agencies are considering whether to provide information, analysis and possibly tactical lessons to African governments about how to attack wildlife poaching networks, according to a top official. “We are looking for opportunities” where “we can contribute,” Terrance Ford, the national intelligence manager for Africa in the office of …
Arusha — UNITED States government, through its US Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged over 30 million US dollars (about 70bn/-) in the next five years to boost wildlife and environment conservation efforts in Tanzania. To start with, the US Envoy to Tanzania, Ambassador Mark Childress launched the first …
A Tanzanian government minister described elephant poaching on Thursday as a national disaster, and urged China to curb its appetite for ivory. The east African nation’s elephant population shrank from around 110,000 in 2009 to a little over 43,000 in 2014, a fall of 60 percent, according to a census …
THE elephant population in the country has decreased from 136,000 in 2005 to 43,000 this year, a recent census conducted by the African Wildlife Foundation has shown. This 60 per cent decrease in only ten years has been attributed to, among others, poaching and illegal trade in wild animals. According …
THE European Union (EU) on Wednesday awarded Heifer Nederland and Heifer International Tanzania a 1.6 euro (about 3.7bn/-) grant to fund the Igunga Eco Village Project that aims at helping vulnerable community to cope with the impact of climate change. The grant, signed during the EU Climate Diplomacy Day, is …
Poaching of elephants is now occurring at rates that threaten African populations with extinction. Identifying the number and location of Africa’s major poaching hotspots may assist efforts to end poaching and facilitate recovery of elephant populations. We genetically assign origin to 28 large ivory seizures (≥0.5 tons) made between 1996-2014, …
Production of cereals, the main staple and cash crops for millions of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is severely constrained by parasitic striga weed Striga hermonthica, stemborers and poor soil fertility. A companion cropping system known as ‘push–pull’ overcomes these constraints while providing additional soil fertility and forage grass benefits …
Maggi noodles are popular in Kenya and neighbouring countries East Africa's biggest supermarket chain has withdrawn Nestle's Maggi noodle brand from its shops in five countries, amid concerns over food safety. Nakumatt says the noodles have been withdrawn from shops in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and South Sudan, after demands …
Up-to-date evidence about levels and trends in disease and injury incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability (YLDs) is an essential input into global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013), we estimated these quantities for acute and chronic diseases and injuries …
Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs. Population ageing and transformations in the social determinants of health have increased the coexistence of disease burdens related to reproductive health, nutrition, and …
KISHAPU Municipal Council has managed to reduce the impact of drought by empowering communities in affected areas with capacity building skills as well as facilitate projects that both increase their income and conserve the environment. The projects being undertaken by Disaster Management Unit under the Prime Minister's Office has made …
Arusha — NATURAL Resources and Tourism Ministry envisages embarking on an extensive search on elephants reported to have mysteriously disappeared in Southern Tanzania. The sudden vanishing of over 12,000 elephants from the game circuit without traces of them having died naturally or poached has baffled the government, wildlife experts and …
Government data shows industrial scale of poaching for ivory as number of elephants in Tanzania drops from 109,051 in 2009 to 43,330 in 2014 Tanzania has emerged as the epicentre of Africa’s elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed it had lost a “catastrophic” 60% of its elephants in …
Dodoma — THE government will put in place strategies to collect more revenue to be able to increase budget allocation in the health sector to 15 per cent in accordance with the Abuja Declaration. The Abuja declaration requires that governments allocate 15 per cent of the total budget to the …
Dodoma — MORE than 298m/- has been set aside through the Water Sector Development Programme to go into implementation and completion of existing projects in the water sector in Kasulu District, Kigoma Region. Deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Regional Administration and Local Government, Mr Kassim Majaliwa, said Kasulu …
