Mining Watch Canada and the NGO Working Group on the Export Development Corporation join with environmental and human rights groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Tanzania to call for an independent investigation into allegations of mass killings and forced relocation of small scale miners at the Bulyanhulu gold mine in Tanzania in 1996.

TANZANIA is far behind other East African countries to achieve World Health Organization (WHO) standards as far as the ratio of doctor to patient is concerned and the Ministry of Health is now inviting private investors to train more doctors.

The number of households affected by last month's tremors in Rungwe District southern Tanzania has risen to 259 from the previous 181 following a house to house check by ward leaders.

The nongovernmental organisation Refugees International, which has lately been focusing intensely on the conditions and climate within refugee camps in Tanzania, has told a visiting US Congess delegation of the great need to support education programmes and initiatives to make the refugees more self-reliant.

Communicable diseases like malaria, AIDS, tuberculosisi, diarrhoe, intestinal helminthanon are the most prevalent diseases in the Pemba and Unguyja islands in Zanzibar, Tanzanai. A number of research instistutes including WHO have collaborated effectively to generate information on communicable disease control in the affected islands.