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Tanzanian farmers to get help from FAO

Farmers in Tanzania are to benefit from a project of the United Nations
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East African Community marks ten years

The East African Community (EAC) marks its tenth anniversary in November with a programme of events in Arusha organised under the theme
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Arusha property racket targets foreigners

Foreigners have become the target of a racket linked to property sales in Arusha, the Arusha Times reports. Racketeers posing as estate agents have allegedly been offering unavailable plots or hous...
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New textile factory in Arusha

A new cotton-spinning factory has opened just outside Arusha, providing jobs for 250 people, the Arusha Times reports. The Jambo Spinning Mills and Textile Company is located in Usa River township...
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Mama Africa Circus comes to town

Roll up, roll up: the circus is in town! Mama Africa Circus, founded and directed by Winston Ruddle, a former acrobat from Zimbabwe, has set up its big top at the Arusha International Conference C...
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New HIV/AIDS treatment centre opens

A new centre specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment has opened at the state-run Mount Meru regional hospital in Arusha. The centre has been built with funding from the United States President
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EAC soldiers in joint training exercise

Soldiers from East African Community (EAC) member states Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi are in Tanzania for a joint exercise involving training in counterterrorism and peacekeeping activi...
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Water shortage in Arusha.

Residents of Arusha have been hit by a serious water shortage partly as a result of the poor performance of the March-May
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Plans for Usa-River area.

Plans are being drawn up for the development of the Usa-River area following its elevation to the status of township at the start of this year. The trading area strung along the Arusha-Moshi highw...
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Tanzanite information centre to open in Mererani.

A centre providing information on the rare local Tanzanite gemstone is under construction in Mererani southeast of Arusha, the only place in the world where the stone is mined. The centre will be ru...
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ICTR staff retrenchment.

Staff at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha have begun receiving notification of the termination of their services in September, Hirondelle news agency reports. The termi...
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Nane Nane agricultural show in Arusha.

Preparations are underway for the annual Nane Nane (meaning
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Fly540 launches Kilimanjaro-Serengeti service.

Kenyan low-cost airline Fly540 is to launch daily direct flights between Kilimanjaro international airport and the Serengeti national park on Tanzania
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New traffic lights in Arusha.

Arusha is to get its second set of traffic lights nearly two years after the first set was installed at the Sanawari junction at the northern end of Simon Boulevard,
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Arusha-Moshi road upgrade.

Travel by road between the northern towns of Moshi and Arusha could become quicker and safer under plans to expand the present two-lane highway, the Tanzania roads agency (TANROADS) has said. The pr...
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Rhino return delayed.

Tanzanians may have to wait until the end of they year to see the return of the first of five black rhinos exported to South Africa in the 1980s. The first rhino had been due to arrive in June followi...
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Hotels and Lodges properties to get overhaul.

Hotels and Lodges Tanzania has announced plans to renovate its four properties in the country
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Arusha Arts Initiative.

Following weeks of preparations six students from The Juilliard School in New York depart for Tanzania on 15 May to lead a two-week performing arts workshop with students at the Umoja Youth Empowermen...
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Letter to Arusha: countdown to Juilliard arts workshop begins.

Hello everyone! This is Megan Griffin, part of the Arusha Arts Initiative. We are getting close to the trip
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Old Moshi Road upgrade.

Dozens of people living along the Old Moshi Road in Arusha are set to lose their homes under a road upgrade project, the
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Letter to Arusha: Juilliard students to give arts workshop.

Hello everyone! My name is Megan Griffin and I am a music student at The Juilliard School in New York City. Together with five fellow artists from Juilliard I will be traveling to Arusha, Tanzania, th...
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Arusha Arts Initiative.

A group of actors, dancers and musicians from Juilliard School in New York will be travelling to Arusha in the second half of May to introduce students at the Umoja Youth Empowerment Center to the per...
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Arusha horticulture hit by global downturn.

Flower farmers in northern Tanzania are suffering as a result of the global recession, Tanzania Horticultural Association (TAHA) has said. Prices of cut flowers in the main export markets (mostly Euro...
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Speed humps in Arusha.

Speed humps are to be installed on roads in and around Arusha as part of efforts to improve traffic safety in the area.
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Rwanda expert Des Forges killed in plane crash.

American historian Alison Des Forges, one of the leading experts in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and its aftermath and a key advisor to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, wa...
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