By Elias Mhegera – Food security continues to be a matter of serious concern for the whole of Eastern and the Horn of Africa. This was revealed during the one day National Consultative Workshop. The event that was conducted at the Ubungo Plaza in Dar es Salaam on Monday October 22, was convened by the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) which was a host organization in collaboration with the Association of Strengthening Agriculture Research for Eastern Africa (ASARECA). The workshop attracted researchers, economists, journalists, statisticians and other stakeholders. Dr Francis Mwaijande a researcher associate at the ESRF and Principal... Continue Reading
By Elias Mhegera – The Tanzanian Government has admitted that it is facing an increasing alarming and uncontrollable risk due to the high rate of unemployment in this country. This confession came from the Chief Secretary President’s Office Ombeni Sefue, when he spoke to the Business Times exclusively, on the Wednesday of October 24, after an official launching of the Post 2015 Development Agenda. The occasion which took place at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel in Dar es Salaam, attracted a big number of Tanzania’s experts and consultants in economics, members of the civil society, media and development partners in general.... Continue Reading
By Elias Mhegera – Once again African countries have been counseled to revival railway systems which currently seem to be neglected in many countries due to a number of reasons. The call was part of the conclusions that were drawn in a two days seminar of African Logistics Conference that was conducted at the Serena Hotel in Dar es Salaam recently. An expert conference was organized by the National Institute of Transport (NIT), in collaboration with the Kuhne Stiftung drawing engineers, transporters, drivers and other stakeholders. The moderator of the occasion Mr Giliard Ngewe, Head of Business Administration at the... Continue Reading
ZANZIBAR CITY, October 2012 (IRIN) – The Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar has experienced three anti-government protests so far this year; the latest, in mid-October, saw one police officer killed, roads blocked and shops closed across the capital, Zanzibar City. The group behind the demonstrations, Uamsho (the Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation), has plastered messages across the capital agitating for the archipelago’s independence. One such message, “if the coat doesn’t fit, take it off”, refers to disbanding the United Republic of Tanzania, which was born out of the 1964 union of Zanzibar and the mainland area of Tanganyika. The most... Continue Reading
The past decade’s corporate scandals – spanning Enron’s corporate fraud in the early 2000s, the 2008 banking crisis and Barclays’ interest-rate fixing disgrace this July – have highlighted the dire consequences of unethical leadership and poor corporate governance. In the wake of these events new regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the US, the Cadbury Report in the UK and the King Reports in SA, were formulated to protect investors and other stakeholders. “Corporate governance starts with the board of directors,” says Sandra Burmeister, CEO of Landelahni Business Leaders Amrop SA. “Observing regulatory requirements involves committing to ethical behaviour throughout the... Continue Reading
