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Arusha’s Food for Education programme
The World Food Program (WFP) is co-ordinating the Food for Education initiative which is helping up to 200,000 school children in six districts of Arusha and Manyara in northern Tanzania.
Pupils i...
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Arusha's EABC holds conference on pirated goods
Business leaders and government officials from east Africa are gathering at a two day summit arranged by the Arusha-based East African Business Council (EABC) to discuss the increasing problem of illi...
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Hospitality & Tourism Training Institute for Arusha
Global Alliance for Africa (GAA) is at the advanced planning stages for a state-of-the-art tourism training centre in Arusha.
Tanzania's Hospitality & Tourism Training Institute will provide an in...
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Opposition to the proposed road through the Serengeti to connect Lake Victoria to Arusha is growing and possible suggestions for another route are now being studied.
According to eturbonews, a usu...
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Tenure of Arusha Rwanda tribunal judges extended
The United Nations Security Council has agreed to extend the terms of office of the judges sitting on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha to allow them to complete their wo...
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Controversy mounts over Serengeti road
Contradictory reports are coming out of Tanzania about the proposed road across the Serengeti to link Arusha in the north with towns on Lake Victoria. The proposed road would link Arusha and Musoma on...
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Arusha to Kilimanjaro road upgrade
A feasibility study for the widening of the highway between Arusha and Kilimanjaro international airport is in its final stages, according to the Tanzania Roads Agency.
The project involves wideni...
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One-stop border posts for East Africa
The East African Community (EAC) is pressing ahead with plans to introduce one-stop border posts across the region under the terms of the draft EAC One Stop Border Posts (OSBPs) Bill adopted at a meet...
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Deforestation warning for Tanzania
Tanzania is set to lose its entire forest cover within the next 100-160 years if more is not done to reduce the current rate of deforestation, the United States-based environmental watchdog Conservati...
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Serengeti endangered by Arusha-Musoma road
Construction of the new road from Arusha to Musoma on Lake Victoria is now scheduled to begin in 2012. The Tanzania government has finally come to a decision on the route for the new link between the...
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Victims of rape and sexual abuse can now receive specialist medical and psychological assistance from a dedicated centre in Arusha.
The Rape and Sexual Absue Care Centre (RSACC) is run by the Arus...
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Arusha police provide training for motorcyclists
Police in Arusha are offering road training for motorcyclists in a bid to improve safety on local roads, the Arusha Times reports.
Drivers of two-wheel vehicles are being given instruction in basi...
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Arusha residents to see flamingo film
Arusha residents have a chance to see a film on the lesser flamingos of Lake Natron northwest of Arusha, The Arusha Times reports.
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos by wildlife filmmakers...
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National park fees in Tanzania
Visitors from Burundi and Rwanda now pay the same amount as Tanzanians, Kenyans and Ugandans to visit the country
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The population of the northern region of Arusha is expected to be 1,664,780 by the end of 2010, according to figures from the regional commissioner
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EAC food security and climate conference in Arusha postponed
The meeting of the heads of state of the five East African Community (EAC) member countries
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Arusha to Namanga road upgrade delayed
The expansion and rehabilitation of the road linking Arusha to the northern town of Namanga on the border with Kenya has run into delays partly due to what the contractor has described as the
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Ngurdoto conference centre in Arusha
A new conference centre is in the final stage of completion at the Ngurdoto Montain Lodge complex close to the Arusha national park. With a seating capacity of 4,000 it will be the largest in Tanzania...
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Finland appoints honorary consul in Arusha
Finland has opened a consulate in Arusha, an important stop for Finns who come not only to visit the many national parks in northern Tanzania but also to explore a region where their parents or grandp...
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The Selian Hospital's Wandering Surgeon
The Selian Hospital is a Lutheran-run hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. Since January we have been following the blog of a visiting surgeon there and feel that what he writes about the difficulties, the h...
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Arusha may finally get its long-awaited official upgrade from municipal town to city, which has been in the administrative pipeline for over five years. Deputy minister for local governments and regio...
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Tanzania's new postal system launched in Arusha
A new system of addresses and postal codes covering the whole of Tanzania was officially launched on 18 January to replace the old PO box system centred on local post offices.
Within the next five...
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The number of arrests for poaching in the Serengeti national park increased from 959 cases in 2002 to 1028 in 2009, according to an article in the Arusha Times.
During a recent visit of a parliame...
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Arusha lacks secondary school places
Secondary schools in Arusha are so short of places that about 7,000 children may be left out of the Form One intake in 2010.
This is partly because of a lack of classrooms but also because a large...
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Tourist figures in Tanzania may have been down by ten per cent in the first ten months of 2009, but new hotels are going up all over Arusha, the centre of the northern safari circuit, the gateway to t...
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Ngorongoro cattle killed by drought
According to estimates by local government officers over 100,000 cattle out of a total of about 380,00 had died by the end of November 2009 in the Ngorongoro region as a result of the prolonged drough...
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Just before Christmas the local Arusha Times was wondering what might have happened to the 400 or so hippos that inhabited Lake Babati, a small lake about two hours travel south of the north Tanzanian...
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Air Tanzania introduces daily Dar-Arusha flights
State-owned Air Tanzania has introduced a daily flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha airport to boost revenue for the struggling airline. The move puts the carrier in direct competition with private co...
