Latest in Tag: Tanzania Highlight
Latest in Tag: Tanzania

Nile Cooperation akin to teamwork in sports
For any football team, you have the goal keeper, defenders, midfielders, strikers, and the coach. These entities blend together so as to secure victory for their team. Separately, they would achieve nothing, for it is through team work (cooperation) that the eleven players can face their opponents (challenges) and win. The players are organised into …

Sleeping with the lions: a night in Tanzania
It sounds crazy, but it happened. I have slept in a tent that was only a few metres away from a pack of lions. I was in the middle of the savannah of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. If I knew that this would be my fate, I may have thought twice before travelling …

Indian leader on African tour
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is touring Mozambique, South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. His huge country is looking for raw materials and allies in its quest for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

Egypt participates in establishing three model farms in Tanzania, Zambia, Congo: Head of COMESA Department at Agriculture Ministry
Ongoing negotiations with Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea to set up joint farm lands: El-Maghrabi

African nations to seek chemical industry deals
Marketing companies to join January event, aiming to sell Egyptian chemicals

Ministry of International Cooperation, AfDB sign $650,000 grant agreement
Finance is for first phase of initial feasibility studies needed to establish shipping line connecting Mediterranean Sea and Lake Victoria

Tanzania: Rural areas to have better telecom services
The project is expected to commence as soon as possible and it will cover 16 regions in Tanzania, including Arusha, Tabora, Iringa, Kagera, Manyara, Dodoma, Lindi, Mbeya, Morogoro and Mtwara.

Fahmy meets Ethiopian, Tanzanian, Angolan counterparts
Foreign minister discusses Nile water and cooperation with African ministers

Internet access is no longer a luxury
Fibre-optics could leap-frog Africa into the future

PM travels to Chad, Tanzania
Egypt’s prime minister discusses economic, cultural ties, lobbies to lift African Union suspension
Foreign minister presses AU panel to reconsider membership freeze
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nabil Fahmy urged the African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) to reconsider its decision to freeze Egypt’s membership during a meeting with the African Union’s High Level Panel for Egypt in Cairo on Tuesday. The panel, led by former Malian President Alpha Oumar KonarĂ©, was formed following the suspension of Egypt from …

Counting the cost of East Africa’s poaching economy
Kenyan and Tanzanian ports are the “primary gateway” for ivory smuggled to Asia, where demand is fuelled by increasingly affluent markets, especially in China, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warns.

Fahmy meets Tanzanian president ahead of Congo visit
Interim foreign minister on tour to Nile Basin Countries of Tanzania and Congo

Update: Fahmy visits DRC and Tanzania
Interim foreign minister discusses Egypt’s water share with Tanzanian counterpart; prepares for COMESA summit

Fahmy visits DRC and Tanzania
Interim foreign minister tours Nile Basin Countries; prepares for COMESA summit

Three Emiratis held after deadly Tanzanian church bombing
Five Tanzanians have also been arrested following the Sunday attack on a packed church in the northern city of Arusha that killed three people.

Two Egyptians among five terrorist suspect to be extradited
Final appeal to European Court of Human Rights fails
Tanzania probes Iran oil tanker reflagging reports
Dar Es Salaam (AFP) – Tanzania said Thursday it is investigating US accusations it reflagged Iranian oil tankers to help Tehran evade US and EU sanctions. “If we confirm that there are Iranian ships flying Tanzania’s flag, we are going to obliterate the registration,” Foreign Minister Bernard Membe told reporters. Both the European Union and …

Egypt pledges aid to South Sudan
Egypt played an important role in easing the tensions between Sudan and South Sudan