The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is looking for a self-motivated, energetic Tanzanian / East African citizen to assist the multi-sectoral District AIDS Secretariat in the coordination of a comprehensive district HIV/AIDS control programme in Serengeti district, Mara region, Tanzania.

The benefits of debt relief have failed to trickle down to Tanzania's grassroots, where poverty remains rampant, according to the latest assessment by four anti-debt groups. In large part, the groups have found, this is because much-touted social funds provided under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative have not been translated into better social services for the East African country's 34 million citizens.

Tanzanian opposition leaders on Wednesday took the rare step of getting tested for HIV/AIDS and promised to publicise the results in a bid to encourage other Tanzanians to do the same.

A recent legal agreement between the Tanzanian government and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) marks the formalisation of a good bilateral relationship and should help ease the work of the Red Cross movement, especially in the refugee camps in western Tanzania, an ICRC spokesman, Florian Westphal, told IRIN on Thursday.

There is renewed optimism for political stability within the islands of Zanzibar, following the signing last week of an agreement on the implementation of the October 2001 reconciliation accord between Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party and the opposition Civic United Front (CUF), according to sources in the capital, Dar es Salaam.

An embarrassed government was yesterday forced to postpone a decision on the sale of a £28m military air traffic control system to Tanzania when it emerged at a highly charged meeting of senior ministers that the hardware has already been built at a UK factory after reassurances from the Ministry of Defence that the deal would be nodded through.

Rwanda has asked Tanzania to rearrest an investigator for defendants on trial at the UN International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR) for Rwanda because Kigali suspects him of having participated in the 1994 genocide, Rwandan Radio reported on Saturday.

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Tanzanian police have raided the offices of the Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT) in Dar es Salaam and searched the homes of two LEAT attorneys, according to an international association of public interest attorneys based in Eugene.

The Amnesty International, Dodoma Chapter in central Tanzania has launched awareness campaigns aimed at fighting against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the country.

US-based groups have voiced concern over reports that Tanzanian police searched offices and homes of lawyers pressing for an international probe of alleged killings at a Canadian-invested gold mine in the East African country.

The Tanzanian police have arrested two men and issued a warrant for the arrest of the third who have been pressing for an international investigation of allegations of forcible evictions and killings at Bulyanhulu in Tanzania in August of 1996. This alert calls for protests to the World Bank and the Tanzanian government.

The course aims at contributing to the reduction of human suffering related to food and nutrition problems in Tanzania and other African countries. The course is specifically intended for programme implementers at district level, who are responsible for planning and implementation of activities (programmes, projects, etc.) directed at improving the food and nutrition situation of population groups at risk. This course, therefore, is designed to strengthen the ability of participants in planning, managing, administrating and evaluating such activities within the constraints and opportunities present in their own geographical and socio-economic situation.

At least 486,900 refugees in Kigoma, Kibondo, Kasulu and Ngara districts in northwestern Tanzania received some 2,455 mt of food from 22 October to 4 November, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in its emergency report of 9 November.

Mt Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania could lose its entire icecap by 2015, symbolising that global climate change "may be felt first and hardest by the environment and people of Africa", the environmental lobby group Greenpeace reported this week.

The Minister responsible for Industries and Trade, Mr. Idd Simba has tendered his resignation to President Benjamin Mkapa and the later has accepted the request 'with regrets'.

Two short community based plays were designed to sensitise the Barbaig community (a nomadic ethnic group in northern Tanzania) on the negative impact of female circumcision (FGM), domestic violence and the importance of sending girls to school. A 3 week creative session was held among The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Department of Fine & Performing Arts at the University of Dar es Salaam, along with HAWOCODE (Hanang Women's Counseling & Development Association) to produce the plays. The plays were performed and then discussed with the community. Key question asked after the performance: What positive alternative can be suggested to this cultural activity (FGM) rather than simply telling them it is bad and should be stopped? Contact Dr. Augustin Hatar.

While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too
low to have a visible impact on poverty. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that the
amount of both income and non-income poverty are roughly the same as they were a
decade ago. Since debt relief provided under HIPC will free government resources, the initiative will potentially help reduce poverty through larger government expenditures on social sectors (pdf file).

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