A CBI team has seized documents from the Indian mission in Tanzania to probe a visa racket involving an Indian revenue service officer, who has been suspended for alleged cheating and forging of documents.

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A joint communique, issued after a recent meeting between the defence ministers of Burundi and Tanzania, noted that security along the common border had not improved "in spite of the strong political will which exists between the two countries".

The first Tanzania Media Policy was adopted in 1994 to provide the overall objectives and strategies necessary to ensure sustainable development of the Media Industry in the country. Considerable achievements have been made under the Policy. Here is the new draft Media policy for Tanzania tabled by the Government for discussion, with ARTICLE 19's comments on the draft attached.

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A novel urban renewal programme in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, has been used at the UN General Assembly's "Istanbul plus 5" special session on human shelter to demonstrate the potential for partnership between communities and local government in improving urban services and amenities.

Over 500 refugees from the Zanzibari islands of Unguja and Pemba were now being registered at Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya in preparation for their voluntary repatriation later this month, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski reported on Tuesday.

UNHCR says the best solution for refugees is to see them return to their home countries and restart their lives, "but this [repatriation] cannot take place if the conditions in their home countries are uncertain and insecure", UNHCR's external relations officer in Dar es Salaam, Ivana Unluova stated on Tuesday. "In the case of Burundi, we continue receiving refugees from the country who give accounts of fighting, attacks and insecurity," she told IRIN.

The South African government should not have handed a Tanzanian citizen, Khalfan Mohamed, to the United States for trial without assurances from the US that he would not be executed if found guilty. The May 28 ruling by the South African Constitutional Court was welcomed by the country's human rights lawyers and activists who objected to Mohamed's deportation to the US when he was originally arrested.

The JRS-backed Radio Kwizera has donated 50 solar powered free-play radio sets to schools in the refugee camps of Ngara and Biharamulo districts of Tanzania, the Catholic NGO Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS) reported on Friday. Forty six of the radios would be used by primary schools in the camps of Lukole, Lumasi and Kitali to monitor education programmes produced and broadcast by Radio Kwizera, it said.

The IMF has commended Tanzania for continued impressive economic performance, saying it may soon qualify for extensive debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, AFP reports. Jürgen Reitmaier, leader of an IMF team on a two-week mission to Tanzania, said on Friday that most of the benchmarks set under the Fund's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) have been met.

The World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday played down reports in the Tanzania media of refugees abandoning their homes to escape hungry refugees who were marauding in the community and taking food by force in Kibondo District, Kigoma Region, western Tanzania. The 'Guardian' newspaper on Thursday quoted Kibondo police sources as saying that they did not have enough officers to control the refugees who had abandoned their camps because they did not have enough food.

The Tanzanian government on Wednesday denied and termed as "unfounded" allegations by the Burundian government that it had been offering military training to Burundian rebels. Tanzanian radio quoted the permanent secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Hasan Kibelloh, as saying that Tanzania was not supporting any rebel group fighting the Burundian government.

The UNHCR has registered 680 refugees who say they want to return home to the Zanzibari islands of Unguja and Pemba in Tanzania after fleeing to Kenya from political violence on the islands in late January, according to a press release from the refugee agency. Those registered to return represented all but a few dozen of the refugees remaining at a makeshift camp at the port of Shimoni, south of Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, and included community and political leaders, an agency official told IRIN on Tuesday.

The Tanzanian authorities, backed by UN agencies and Britain's Department for International Development (DFID), are planning to use information technology to improve planning and decision-making in their efforts to reduce poverty. The Tanzania Socio-Economic Database (TSED) is intended to make it easier for government agencies to discern trends and spot disparities among regions, according to the UNDP, which is backing the endeavour.

Giving iron supplements and doses of anti-malarial drugs to children under a year old in Tanzania has more than halved the number of cases of severe malaria. That is the finding of research published in the medical journal The Lancet which studied a World Health Organisation (WHO) immunisation programme distributing the medication.

A plain language guide to Tanzania's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.

The Tanzanian government on Wednesday denied and termed as "unfounded" allegations by the Burundian government that it had been offering military training to Burundian rebels. Tanzanian radio quoted the permanent secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Hasan Kibelloh, as saying that Tanzania was not supporting any rebel group fighting the Burundian government.

With the international focus on peace moves in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an "explosive situation" in neighbouring Burundi is being largely ignored, regional analysts warned on Friday.

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