The Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania (Redet) has specified four areas it will focus at in the ongoing electoral processes to determine the extent to which they are credible, free, fair and peaceful.

Friday, September 25, 2020, went down in history for what is generally considered to be a phenomenal and historic anniversary for the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC). That was when the Dar es Salaam based Centre commemorated the 25th anniversary of its founding in 1995.

Three Health Training Institutes (HTIs) on Thursday, awarded trophies and certificates of recognition for training competent nurse- midwives who are capable of providing Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) and Essential Newborn Care (ENC).

Six political parties have candidates contesting the Vunjo parliamentary constituency in the October 28 General Election. But, clearly, the fierce competition is between NCCR-Mageuzi and CCM.

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has cut short his state visit to Tanzania, after holding talks with President John Magufuli, visited Malawi Cargo Centre and met some business investors in private.

Retirement is a prestige. According to Tanzania’s Employment and Labor Relations Act of 2004 stipulates 55 years as appropriate age to willingly retire, with 60 years being age limit of an employment legally.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) engages other statistics stakeholders to discuss how they can put the use of big data (data from different sources which are not official) into perspective.

The Zanzibar presidential candidate on a CCM ticket, Dr Hussein Mwinyi, yesterday promised to enact a law which would require all investors in the tourism sector to ensure that they benefit the people living around their investments.

Joshua Cheptegei broke the 10,000m track world record on Wednesday in Valencia with a time of 26mins 11.00 seconds.

The last quarter for the calendar year 2020 has just started. Most taxpayers have December 31 as their prescribed year-end. And so, for them, it is time to wrap up as the year 2020 closes.

Chadema’s Vice Chairman and Presidential candidate Tundu Lissu is today set to visit Mlimani City shopping mall on what he says is a private visit to one of the City’s up-market shopping facilities.

One day after ACT Wazalendo Party leader Zitto Kabwe was transferred to Dar es Salaam it has been revealed that MP will today undergo a surgery at Aga khan Hospital where he has been admitted.

The Kenyan government appeared to be in the dark a whole two days after Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodríguez announced that two Cuban doctors kidnapped in Mandera County had been released, the Nation has established.

Education stakeholders were yesterday shocked over the drastic steps taken against former deputy permanent secretary (PS) in the ministry of Education, Dr Ave Maria Semakafu, after announcing what were the ministry’s plans to improve education in the country.

Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania has hosted its clients to the voice of clients session geared towards directly listening to its clients’ feedback and suggestions, an event that attracted both Individual and SME companies.

Tanzania’s economy will grow by 5.5 percent in 2020, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) maintained yesterday.

A day after his convoy was blocked by police as he was heading to Coast Region, Chadema’s Presidential aspirant Tundu Lissu braved the mid afternoon dar es Salaam sunshine to visit Kariakoo market.

How healthy is Donald Trump, really? Contradictory and incomplete information from officials since the president contracted coronavirus confirms that the health of the White House incumbent is a well-kept secret.

A Nairobi court has convicted Mohamed Ahmed and Hussein Hassan Mustafa for the offences of conspiracy to commit a terrorism act and being in possession of material promoting terrorism activity.

China has decided once again – as it does periodically – to up the ante with Taiwan, the big offshore island it claims as its own. Last month China sharply increased its military manoeuvres close to Taiwan’s borders. In return Taiwan sent its fighter planes aloft every day for two weeks. US diplomats in Taiwan are saying this is the worst escalation of Chinese military activity in two decades.

A Nigerian advert is stoking controversy on Africa’s priorities.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,045,097 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by on Tuesday.

The ACT Wazalendo Leader Zitto Kabwe was on Tuesday involved in a car accident on his way from Kalya ward to Lukoma in Kigoma

Police in Coast Region is holding a number of people believed to be Chadema’s followers for what they termed accompanying the party’s Presidential candidate Tundu Lissu to continue with campaigns despite being suspended for seven days by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) ethics Committee.

Tanzania is to host an Ordinary General Assembly of the African Football governing body (Caf) scheduled to take place in Arusha Region on December 11.

Three years ago, gunfire broke out at dawn in a sleepy town in northern Mozambique in what would be the start of a full-fledged insurgency by a shadowy Islamist group.

Burundi has requested Rwanda to deport 19 combatants arrested on Kigali's territory, a situation that could test the fragile relations between the two neighbours.

The National Examinations Council of Tanzania (Necta) warned candidates, teachers and supervisors against cheating as Standard 7 pupils start their Primary School Leaving Certificate Examinations tomorrow.

As he stood before the large crowd stretched out in front of him, he couldn’t help but marvel at the vibrancy and energy running deep within the strata of revellers bent on seeing daylight find them in the arena. For a moment, he felt immeasurably proud of himself.

Twaweza Executive Director, Aidan Eyakuze, has been elected as the Civil Society Co-Chair of the Open Government Partnership (OGP).

The East African Community (EAC) has officially endorsed the candidature of Kenya’s Amina Mohamed in the race to head the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This has become the latest boost to her bid. The announcement came on Sunday, just two days before the global commercial regulator announces the final shortlist of two contenders for the final round of the race.

The number of tourists visiting Tanzania is on the rise - thanks to the government’s decision to open the country to visitors earlier than all its regional peers post-Covid-19, the minister for Tourism and Natural Resources, Dr Hamisi Kigwangalla, said yesterday.

After days of hush around the military hospital where he was being treated for Covid-19, President Donald Trump emerged to the clatter of helicopter rotor blades and the cries of supporters chanting, «Trump, Trump, Trump.»

Nigeria's debt of $85.9 billion, the highest in history, has become the talking point even as the country celebrated its 60th anniversary on October 1, 2020.

Rwandan prosecutors have filed a request to have “Hotel Rwanda” 'hero' Paul Rusesabagina jointly tried with 18 rebels.