Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – “Nobody should die from hunger in the 21st century,” Senegalese singer Baaba Maal said on Wednesday as he assumed the role of Global Ambassador for international charity Oxfam, amidst a food crisis that threatens 18 million people in the Sahel region of west and central Africa. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Pan-African telecoms service supplier, Gateway Communications, announced Wednesday that it had brought additional capacity from submarine cable SAT-3 to landlocked Botswana via South Africa, under its Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) initiative. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Progress in trade logistics performance slowed down over the last two years amid the global recession, but countries that pursued aggressive reforms continued to improve their performance, according to the World Bank’s latest survey on trade logistics. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The world’s poorest countries have issued a bold plan to make the UN climate change talks resuming Monday in Bonn, Germany, more likely to reach their goal of having an effective and legally-binding agreement ready for governments to adopt by 2015. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - High-level representatives from the African Development Bank, the US Department of State, US Agency for International Development, Microsoft, Nokia, infoDev, DEMO, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) Friday launched a new partnership to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Africa’s strong economic growth trajectory, which will see the region increase the pace of growth well beyond 5 percent over the next two years, is at risk because of rising inequality and the marginalization of whole sections of society, the 2012 Africa Progress Report, launched Friday by the Africa Progress Panel (APP), has warned. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania’s fixed and mobile operator Zantel has launched 3G/3.5G mobile services based on HSPA+ technology on the off-coast island of Zanzibar to improve internet access for the local population. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Thursday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Bank of Tanzania on Tuesday issued the following exchange rates of the shilling for selected foreign currencies: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Monday swore in new ministers, deputy ministers and those he moved to different ministries following a major reshuffle of his cabinet last Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Bank of Tanzania on Monday issued the following exchange rates of the shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – In the first-ever global collaboration involving Nobel Peace Laureates, international advocacy organizations and groups working in conflict zones will this week launch the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict, it was officially announced Sunday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete reshuffled his cabinet Friday, dropping six ministers and two deputy ministers following their accusation in parliament for being irresponsible in managing public funds either directly in their ministries or in institutions falling under their charge.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Using his constitutional prerogative, Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has nominated three new Members of Parliament, including an opposition party leader, in a move seen by analysts here as a prelude to shuffling the Cabinet. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Friday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Superficial research and improper verification of facts in the daily news menu indicate that truth has become a victim of such deficiencies in several African media, Tanzania’s Minister of Information, Youth, Sports and Culture Emmanuel Nchimbi said here Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Bank of Tanzania on Thursday issued the following exchange rates of the local currency, the shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Equality Now, an international women’s rights organisation, Wednesday called on the US government to uphold a zero tolerance policy on the demand for commercial sex that fuels sex trafficking, which is a violation of human rights of millions of women and girls around the world. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Tanzania Shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Organisations of the ‘illegal’ urban poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America have made themselves matter to city governments by mapping and documenting their informal settlements and the people and businesses in them, according to the new issue of the journal, Environment and Urbanization, published Tuesday by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – By putting emphasis on entrepreneurial training at all levels of education, Tanzania could succeed to reduce the chronic problem of unemployment for its young people, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete told a May Day rally at the Tanga seaport near Dar es Salaam. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania’s Simba Sports Club refreshed the hopes of its home fans and Tanzanians in general when it beat Sudan’s Al Ahly 3-0 in the two teams’ first CAF Confederation Cup encounter at the National Stadium here Sunday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Leaders of the East African Community (EAC) on Saturday urged President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan to return to the negotiating table and find peaceful means of resolving all their outstanding issues in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Friday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Brenda J. Hollis, has applauded the conviction of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Bank of Tanzania on Wednesday issued the following exchange rates of the shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Heads of State of the five-member countries of the East African Community (EAC) will hold their 10th Extraordinary Summit on 28 April, 2012, to consider, among other things, the application by South Sudan to join the regional bloc, the Community Secretariat announced Tuesday.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Tuesday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Global efforts and strong in-country partnerships involving development agencies, host country governments and local organisations are key elements of the strategies to defeat malaria, according to US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director in Tanzania, Mr. Robert Cunnane. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A huge gap in funding for aid projects aimed at preventing the deepening food crisis in the Sahel is threatening to leave millions of people hungry in the coming months, a coalition of aid agencies warned Monday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Bank of Tanzania on Monday issued the following exchange rates of the shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) -- International development agency, WaterAid, on Saturday welcomed pledges from African ministers that if delivered would provide 85.4 million Africans with access to essential life-saving services across the continent.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – The rapid penetration of mobile telephony in Tanzania has prompted government's probe into earnings of all cell phone networks in the country for unpaid taxes, Deputy Communication, Science and Technology minister Charles Muhangwa Kutwanga, told parliament on Saturday.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – HIV experts, business leaders, aid agencies and ambassadors of 22 priority countries -- home to 90 percent of new HIV infections among children -- on Friday agreed in Washington, DC, that the surest way to halt the spread of the deadly virus from mother to child was through strategic innovations. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Promoting cultural exchanges among nations is essential to strengthening partnerships, American jazz musician Bobby Rickets said here Friday as he and his group began a four-day Annual Dar Jazz event that includes workshops for local artistes and performances. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The developing world’s progress is seriously lagging on global targets related to food and nutrition, with rates of child and maternal mortality still unacceptably high, according to the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2012, released Friday by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Bank of Tanzania on Friday issued the following exchange rates for the shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The misuse of pesticides, some of them banned, in northern Ghana is affecting the health of farmers, sometimes with fatal consequences, and contaminating crops, a new survey revealed Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Three quarters of the world’s poor do not have a bank account, not only because of poverty, but also because of the cost, travel distance, and amount of paper work involved in opening one, the World Bank said Thursday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Bank of Tanzania on Thursday issued the following exchange rates of the shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Monday's exchange rates for the Tanzania shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Friday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Following are Wednesday's exchange rates for the Tanzanian shilling: Full text...