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Lack of funds for construction, delays in land acquisition and compensation are among factors cited for expected delays in the completion of a major East African Community Road project, which was billed to boost logistics on the bloc, linking its two main transport corridors.
The $751 million Coastline Transnational Highway project, conceived over a decade ago, covers Bagamoyo-Tanga-Horo Horo on the Tanzania side and Lunga Lunga-Mombasa-Mtwapa-Malindi on the Kenyan side.
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Arusha. Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Arusha, Paul Makonda amesema kukamilika kwa jengo la abiria uwanja wa ndege wa Arusha kutapunguza msongamano na kuongeza utulivu wa abiria.
Makonda amesema hayo baada ya kutembelea na kukagua mradi wa ukarabati wa jengo la abiria katika uwanja huo ambalo ameagiza likamilike haraka na lianze kutumika Septemba mosi.
Akizungumza baada ya kukagua jengo hilo, Makonda amesema kukamilika mapema kwa jengo hilo kutawezesha abiria kuwa na mahali pazuri pa kusubiri usafiri na kupunguza msongamano uliopo sasa.
Amesema shauku ni uwanja huo kukamilisha maboresho ikiwemo uwekaji wa taa za kuongozea ndege ambayo yatauwezesha kutumika kwa saa 24, tofauti na inavyotumika sasa saa 12 pekee kutokana na kutokuwepo kwa taa.
“Tumetembelea hapa kuona kazi inayoendelea na ni shauku yetu uwanja utumike kwa saa 24,na kupitia Sh7 bilioni zilizotolewa na Serikali kwa ajili ya kuweka taa za kuongozea ndege, tunaamini mradi huo utasaidia uwanja utumike kwa saa 24,” amesema
“Kuhusu kuweka taa tumepata taarifa mkandarasi ameshapatikana na mkataba umesainiwa wa miezi 12 ila tumezungumza na mkurugenzi jana, walau miradi ukamilike ndani ya miezi minane,” aliongeza Makonda
Meneja wa uwanja huo, Godfrey Kaaya, amesema mradi wa jengo la abiria na miundombinu yake utagharimu Sh8 bilioni na umefikia asilimia 90.
Amesema jengo la abiria linalotumika kwa sasa lina uwezo wa kuhudumia abiria 150 wakati lile linalokamilishwa likitarajiwa kubeba abiria 1,000 kwa wakati mmoja.
“Tumejipanga kuhakikisha Septemba lianze kutumika kwani limeshafikia asilimia zaidi ya 90,” amesema.
Kuhusu mradi wa taa za kuongozea ndege, Godfrey amesema mkandarasi ameshapatikana na ameshaanza kazi za awali za usanifu na kuwa watasimamia mradi huo utekelezeke chini ya miezi 12, ili kiwanja hicho kiweze kutumika kwa saa 24.
“Kwa sasa kiwanja hiki kinatumika kwa saa 12 tu, ila ni kiwanja cha ndege cha pili kwa miruko mingi ya ndege Tanzania bara baada ya Julius Nyerere,” amesema
“Tuna miruko karibu 150 kwa siku. Kwa mfano kipindi hiki cha msimu wa utalii, zinakuja ndege 75 na zinaondoka ndege 75 na ndege zote ni ndani ya saa 12, tofauti na viwanja vingine ambavyo vinahudumia ndege kubwa,” ameongeza
Kuhusu ongezeko la abiria, meneja huyo amesema kwa kipindi cha mwaka 2019 kabla ya Uviko -19, kulikuwa na watalii wengi akitolea mfano Julai mwaka huo, walivyopokea abiria zaidi ya 38,000 akilinganisha na Julai 2024 walivyohudumia abiria zaidi ya 45,000.
“Hao abiria zaidi ya 45,000 asilimia zaidi ya 90 ni watalii, hivyo ni kiwanja muhimu hasa katika biashara ya utalii,” amesema.
Maboresho ya uwanja huo wa ndege ni muhimu kwani asilimia kubwa ya watalii hupita Kaskazini huku Arusha ikitumika kama lango kuu, hivyo kukamilika kwa miradi hiyo kutachochea kasi ya maendeleo kwa kiwango kikubwa.
Kwa sasa mwonekano wa kuingia katika uwanja huo umeanza kubadilika kufuatia maboresho yaliyofanywa, likiwemo eneo la maegesho ya magari ambalo limekamilika na linatumika.
Barabara ya kuingia katika uwanja huo imeboreshwa tofauti na ilivyokuwa awali, likiwa limebaki jengo la abiria linalokamilishwa na uwekaji wa taa.
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Some 20.1 million people were internally displaced in July in the Horn of Africa region, the United Nations migration agency said on Thursday.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a report released in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, that the number is an increase from 19.2 million people in June.
The IOM attributed the total surge to a rise in internally displaced persons from Burundi, Ethiopia, and Sudan. Most of the displaced people were in Sudan (10.2 million), Somalia (3.5 million), Ethiopia (3.3 million) and South Sudan (2 million).
“There are 10.2 million newly forcibly displaced people in Sudan, including 7.9 million internally and 2.1 million in neighbouring countries since the beginning of the conflict in April 2023,” the IOM said.
Other causes of displacements, according to the UN agency, are floods caused by heavy rains and food insecurity, especially in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.
Read: Africa home to nearly half of global displaced population, report says
IOM also noted that the Greater Horn of Africa region had some 5.4 million refugees and asylum seekers. Uganda hosts the greatest number of refugees at 1.7 million, followed by Ethiopia at 1 million, and Kenya at 906,000.
About 67 million people were food insecure in the region in July, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a regional bloc in Africa. Of the number, 39 million are in IGAD member states, including Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Sudan, and Uganda.
On August 2, international agencies issued an alert that the Horn of Africa would experience below-average rainfall during the October-December season that would transition to drought. This would mean a rise in the number of displaced persons due to food insecurity.
The ongoing East African Community (EAC) conference on education, held in light of the African Union’s designation of 2024 as the Year of Education, has spotlighted the persistent challenges in the region’s education sector.
The conference, themed “Educate an African Fit for the 21st Century: Collective Action for Quality, Inclusive, and Life-long Learning in East Africa,” aims to assess the progress and difficulties facing member states in aligning with the continent’s educational agenda.
The gathering follows the Africa Human Capital Heads of State Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where regional leaders, including Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan, endorsed the Dar es Salaam Human Capital Declaration.
This declaration emphasizes the need for significant investments in health, education, and employment to harness Africa’s youthful population and achieve a demographic dividend.
Despite notable efforts, including the harmonization of education systems and the development of frameworks to facilitate student and staff mobility, the EAC region continues to face several challenges.
These challenges include limited access to education, varying education quality, insufficient teacher capacity, inadequate financing, and the integration of technology in education.
With Sub-Saharan Africa scoring the lowest globally on the World Bank’s Human Capital Index, the urgency for increased investment in education is clear.
Under President Samia’s leadership, Tanzania has initiated significant reforms aimed at improving education access, quality, and relevance.
These reforms include extending compulsory schooling from seven to ten years by 2027/28, a major curriculum review, and investments in educational infrastructure and teacher quality.
The government’s focus on vocational training alongside traditional education paths underscores its commitment to equipping youth with practical skills for the job market.
Education experts have called for greater collaboration among EAC member states and international partners to address the region’s educational challenges.
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Tanzanians will go to the polls on November 27 in the first real political test of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration.
The official date was announced this week as security agencies and the main opposition party, Chadema, clashed over the right to assemble, which the authorities saw as a plot to sow chaos in the country.
Hopes for a smooth conduct of the civic poll, which will lay the groundwork for next year’s general elections, were dealt a severe blow after a heavy-handed police response to Chadema’s plan to hold a rally in Mbeya, south-west Tanzania.
The party’s leaders and some supporters, more than 500 of them, were arrested ahead of the rally on Monday before being released and sent back to their homes.
The incident overshadowed the long-delayed announcement of the election date by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Administration (Tamisemi), which was made with fanfare in the capital Dodoma on Thursday.
Police violently enforced a ban on the opposition rally, which was to mark the annual International Youth Day.
Among those arrested in the raid were party Chairperson Freeman Mbowe, Vice-Chairperson Tundu Lissu, Secretary-General John Mnyika and central committee member Joseph Mbilinyi, who were eventually taken back to their home regions under heavy police guard with other detainees.
The police and the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties said they were concerned that the rally could spark anti-government protests along the lines of the Gen-Z youth movement in neighbouring Kenya as the reason for prohibiting it.
But at their first press conference on Wednesday after returning to Dar es Salaam, the Chadema leaders condemned the “unprecedented brutality” they had experienced at the hands of the police.
Lissu and Mnyika minced no words in describing how police officers used batons, pepper spray and tasers to rough them up, and how their colleague Mbilinyi was seriously injured and taken to hospital in Dar es Salaam.
Mnyika recounted how the police team leader, Commander (CP) Awadh Haji, who heads the force’s Operations and Training Unit, “snatched my spectacles off my face, broke them and then stomped on them, before other police officers began beating us up mercilessly”.
“We were then thrown into police trucks and driven for hundreds of kilometres, lying face down. Mbilinyi in particular was in a very bad state,” he added.
Mbowe said the police action was “totally uncalled for” and said it was a deliberate strategy to cripple the opposition ahead of Tanzania’s new election season.
“Instead of achieving their intended purpose of deterring the youth from pursuing the kind of mutinous stances we have seen in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and elsewhere, such actions could actually spur them on. And it would be pointless to blame the opposition [if this were to happen],” the party leader said.
He said that despite the incident, Chadema would continue its quest for political equality and that if such police violence was repeated in either of the two upcoming elections, “this country will not be safe for anyone”.
Read: Tanzania 2025 elections: Why Magufuli legacy persists despite Samia’s political reforms
The party has also announced its intention to take legal action against CP Haji and Assistant Registrar Sisty Nyahoza, who signed the letter to Chadema banning the Mbeya rally, in their personal capacities for spearheading the week’s events.
Mr Nyahoza’s letter quoted invitation videos posted on social media by the party’s youth leaders calling on youths across the country to attend the rally “to show that they are as serious as their Kenyan counterparts in charting a new destiny for the country and doing away with state control”.
He said such statements were tantamount to inciting social chaos, which Mbowe dismissed as a “completely baseless assumption”.
The nationwide November 27 civic poll will see the election of village, street and ward chairpersons and council members.
It is expected to be a litmus test for the 2025 presidential and parliamentary elections, in which the ruling CCM party will seek to maintain its legislative dominance and President Samia Suluhu Hassan will seek to secure an outright electoral mandate for the first time.
She was elevated from vice-president by constitutional decree after her predecessor John Magufuli died in office in 2021.
However, the Mbeya incident has fuelled scepticism about the chances of a free and fair vote in November, especially as questions have also been raised about the government’s continued oversight of local elections, despite the establishment of an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following amendments to the electoral law earlier this year.
Kicking off the November race on Thursday, Tamisemi Minister Mohamed Mchengerwa, whose portfolio falls directly under the president’s office, said ballot papers and other required documents were ready for the exercise.
Contesting political parties will only be allowed to start formal campaigning a week before the polls on November 20, and have also been instructed to submit their campaign meeting schedules to the ministry’s approved election supervisors at least a week in advance.
TANZANIA: AS President Samia Suluhu Hassan prepares to assume the Chairpersonship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, analysts express strong confidence in her leadership.
They believe her commitment to democracy, good governance and her Reconciliation, Resilience, Reform and Rebuild (4Rs) philosophy will contribute in setting high standard in other member states.
President Samia is set to officially take over the role from Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema at the 44th SADC Summit.
The summit, themed “Promoting Innovation to Unlock Economic Growth and Sustainable Development Opportunities Towards a More Industrialised SADC” will take place tomorrow in Harare, Zimbabwe.
In an interview with the ‘Daily News’, a lecturer at the Dr Salim Ahmed Salim Centre for Foreign Relations (CFR), Mr Innocent Shoo praised President Samia’s proven track record in advancing democracy and good governance in Tanzania.
He believes her leadership will be an inspiration for other SADC member States and anticipates she will work towards enhancing peace and stability in the region, especially in conflict-prone areas like northern Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Kivu and Goma.
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He noted that President Samia’s leadership could serve as a model for other countries in the SADC and Great Lakes regions in promoting peace, security and stability, which are crucial for enhancing intra-regional trade.
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“Recently, regional blocs like SADC, COMESA, and EAC signed a tripartite agreement to collaborate on trade between African countries. If peace and stability are lacking, trade between these regions will be unsuccessful,” Mr Shoo explained.
He added: “President Samia will lead by example in showing what she is doing at home, enabling other nations to learn from Tanzania’s dedication to democracy, good governance, peace and security.”
Mr Shoo also highlighted the financial challenges faced by regional integration blocs, including SADC, in funding peacekeeping operations.
He emphasised the need for increased intelligence sharing and the deployment of peacekeeping forces to conflict zones.
An Assistant Lecturer at the same institution, Mr Dennis Konga noted the significance of President Samia’s leadership, particularly as a woman in a traditionally male-dominated role.
He believes her appointment will inspire other women in the region and advance gender equity, while underscoring the importance of peace and security for economic growth and trade within the SADC region.
Ambassador and retired Brigadier General Benard Mdolwa expressed confidence in President Samia’s ability to enhance Tanzania’s positive image within SADC, building on the legacy of former President Julius Nyerere.
He urged Tanzanians to support President Samia in her efforts to promote peace and security across the African continent.
Source: allafrica.com
Unyeti wa Wizara ya Maliasili na Utalii nchini Tanzania na rundo la wajibu unaotegemea utashi wa wizara nyingine, ndiyo sababu iliyotajwa na wadau kuifanya wizara hiyo iwe mapito ya muda mfupi kwa kila anayeteuliwa.Continue Reading
MINISTER of State in the Vice-President’s Office (Union and Environment), Dr Ashatu Kijaji has announced that the government plans to conduct a comprehensive assessment across various regions to evaluate the impacts of flooding caused by climate change.
Dr Kijaji made this statement while presenting a report on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the El Niño rains of 2023/24 and detailing how the office has addressed the challenges.
Speaking before the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Water and Environment in Dodoma on Tuesday, she explained that the Vice-President’s Office has begun preparing the necessary documentation for this assessment.
“We will enlist experts in the field to inform the Tanzanian public about the impacts of climate change and the government’s measures to address them,” Dr Kijaji said.
She outlined that the Vice-President’s Office, in collaboration with stakeholders, is focused on providing information to communities, particularly at the village and ward levels, regarding the effects of the El Niño rains.
Additionally, the office has developed initial response plans and strategies for emergency measures, especially in flood-prone areas.
Dr Kijaji also highlighted ongoing efforts to prevent human activities within 60 metres of water sources to minimise the impact on citizens and property affected by rainfall.
ALSO READ: Scientists: El Nino not responsible for East Africa floods
Permanent Secretary in the Vice-President’s Office, Engineer Cyprian Luhemeja said that the office is preparing a guide on resource management for water bodies.
Furthermore, an institutional framework for implementing the blue economy policy is being developed, along with educational programmes to enhance public understanding.
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Earlier, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Water and Environment, Mr Jackson Kiswaga underlined the need for research centres to regularly assess and report on the effects of climate change, noting the enduring nature of these issues.
The report aims to provide an overview of the environmental impacts caused by the rains between November 2023 and April 2024 and the responses implemented to address these impacts.
The assessment covered several areas: in the Eastern Zone, including Rufiji, Kibiti, Kisarawe, Kinondoni, Temeke, Kigamboni and Mlimba; the Northern Zone including Kisongo Ward in Arusha Region, Arumeru District Wards of Suye and Mianzini, Mto wa Mbu in Monduli District, Ngaramtoni in Arusha District Council-Arumeru District and Karatu District.
Additionally, the assessment included the Western regions of Kigoma and Katavi and the Southern Highlands of Rukwa, Mbeya, Njombe and Songwe.
Source: allafrica.com
