Tag:Tanzania

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Activists indifferent as TotalEnergies, CNOOC make final decision on $10bn oil project

TotalEnergies and its partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have reached a deal with Uganda and Tanzania to invest more than $10 billion in...

Michael Simire - February 1, 2022

Disaster Risk Management

Tanzania’s Zanzibar halts marine transport over looming tropical cyclone

Tanzania’s Zanzibar on Saturday, April 24, 2021 announced the temporary suspension of marine transport due to the looming tropical cyclone, Jobo. This is contained in...

Michael Simire - April 25, 2021

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How Greenpeace, Western Anti Africa Energy Groups take wrong approach to EACOP

If someone were to put me on the spot and ask me to name an environmentalist group, I’d probably blurt out the first thing...

Michael Simire - April 19, 2021

Conservation

Tanzania moves to bring back smuggled chameleons seized in Austria

Tanzanian authorities said on Saturday, March 6, 2021 that they had set in motion a process of bringing back smuggled chameleons that were seized...

Michael Simire - March 7, 2021

Conservation

Tanzanian police seize 160 firearms, arrest 68 poachers in forest reserve

Tanzanian Police, on Monday, February 8, 2021 said they have seized 160 firearms and arrested 68 suspected poachers in the last two months in...

Michael Simire - February 9, 2021

Agric & Biotech

Tanzania cancels GMO trials again

Newly appointed Tanzania Agricultural Minister, Prof Adolf Mkenda, has announced the cancellation of research trials involving genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the country and...

Michael Simire - January 22, 2021

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Tanzania on high alert over reported new wave of locust swarms

Tanzanian authorities have said they were on high alert after a warning by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on a new wave...

Michael Simire - January 14, 2021

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AfDB approves $120m loan to build Malagarasi hydropower project in Tanzania

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $120 million loan to fund the construction of a 50 MW hydropower plant in western Tanzania. When...

Michael Simire - November 27, 2020

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