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Malaria has for a long time been the number one killer disease in Tanzania, as in most tropical countries. (AllAfrica)

TWENTY football and ten netball teams are expected to take part in the Chief Marealle Cup set to start in Moshi on December 9. (AllAfrica)

THE national soccer team, Zanzibar Heroes left Dar es Salaam today for Nairobi Kenya to compete in the two-week senior Challenge Cup to kick off this weekend. (AllAfrica)

FELISTA Laurent (15) had not been admitted to hospital in her life, until November 4, this year, when she was attacked by his father, Laurent Nyonyo and hospitalised at Tarime District Regional Hospital, with serious wounds. This was after she refused to get married. Staff Writer MUGINI JACOB visited the young girl at the hospital and now reports... (AllAfrica)

TANZANIA'S Hawa Wanyeche fired an impressive two over par 74 gross in the final round, to win this year's Rwanda Ladies Open title at the Kigali Golf Course in Kigali, Rwanda over the weekend. (AllAfrica)

TANZANIA maintained their good run in the inaugural Africa Under-19 Women Cricket Tournament, after defeating Kenya by 14 runs at the Annadil Burhani ground in Dar es Salaam today. (AllAfrica)

KILIMANJARO Stars camp is set to receive a major boost, when custodian Mwarami Mohammed, who is plying his trade with Mozambique champion, Ferroviario Maputo arrives tomorrow to join the team. (AllAfrica)

One major area in which Julius K. Nyerere was a rival to Kwame Nkrumah was the arena of regional integration. (AllAfrica)

The number of exhibitors at the EAC Jua Kali - Nguvu Kazi exhibition has grown from 100 in 1999 to 1,000 this year. (AllAfrica)

Politics is a dirty game, so they say, but a little measure of decorum in the largely no-holds-barred muddle will not do anybody any harm. (AllAfrica)

Arusha claimed four titles at the BQ Junior Tennis Championship, beating their hosts, Dar es Salaam who won one title. (AllAfrica)

Tanzania will compete at the Zone Four Swimming Championship slated for Nairobi, Kenya early next year, according to the Tanzania Swimming Association (TSA). (AllAfrica)

Zain Tanzania has been voted "2009 Most Respected Company" in the country by East Africa's top CEOs. (AllAfrica)

Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) lending to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) customers by 400 per cent between this year and 2004 to Sh13 billion from Sh2.3 billion, a senior official of the bank said at the weekend. (AllAfrica)

Tabora Region received Sh3.4 billion from the road fund until the end of the fourth quarter of financial year 2008/09. (AllAfrica)

A human rights activist has asked the Government to trace customers of albino organs in order to end witchcraft-associated killings of melanin deficient persons mostly rocking Lake Zone regions. (AllAfrica)

The Civic United Front (CUF) has warmly received the speech by Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume on the recent political developments in the Isles. (AllAfrica)

Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) flouted public procurement rules in awarding a Sh3.6 billion medical insurance tender, according to the Public Procurement Appeals Authority (PPAA). (AllAfrica)

The Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) plans to use the forthcoming Champions of the Champions tournament to obtain brilliant athletes who will form a formidable national team. (AllAfrica)

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), through the World Friends Korea Programme, has donated 25 computers to support an ICT project at Karume Institute of Science and Technology in Zanzibar. (AllAfrica)

Kilimanjaro Stars' head coach Marcio Maximo will announce his final squad today, which will travel to Nairobi, Kenya for the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup. (AllAfrica)

The government of Cuba yesterday appealed to Tanzania to support its decision to pressurize the United States to free five Cuban nationals currently being held in US jails. (AllAfrica)

TANZANIA'S former president Benjamin Mkapa will arrive in Uganda on Thursday to officiate at the Makerere University alumni reunion. (AllAfrica)

Investors looking for fresh natural resources struck deals in Tanzania and Uganda to exploit gold and oil respectively. (AllAfrica)

Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), generating cash incomes for millions of smallholder households and allowing the continent to capture a rising share of world trade in the crop. There are, however, concerns that declining prices and costs of inputs could threaten these positive outcomes. With cotton sector reform in much of SSA a decade old, it is now possible to begin learning from experience. This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania, (eldis.org)

This report highlights the results of a project to establish youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services in Tanzania. The project aimed to do this through developing, expanding and institutionalising youth-friendly services in a variety of settings. The approach to developing a youth-friendly service focused on the following: building on existing resources, using available facilities and service providers reaching young people through a variety (eldis.org)

This report looks at the management of social and economic benefit streams in two mining communities in northern Tanzania; Geita and Mererani. Case studies within the report show that at the local level, poor local governance has opened up for corruption in benefit streams management. Moreover, in Mererani, development projects sponsored by a large scale mining company have resulted in ethnic secessionism and affected local political processes. The authors argue that there are no signs that this ethnic rivalry will (eldis.org)

This paper makes a case for increased policy attention to pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper presents: estimates of the numbers of agro- /pastoral populations globally their livestock and their contribution to national economies the incidence of poverty among agro-/pastoral populations.

The author examines the causes and dynamics of poverty among pastoral populations in Africa drawing on the sustainable livelihoods framework and focusing on vulnerability to shocks. (eldis.org)

Effective access to functioning and well-equipped social services is a prerequisite to improving the quality of life and for promoting the well being of all. The Afrobarometer has now tracked Tanzanians' perceptions of the quality of social service delivery, specifically with respect to education, water supply and health. The data was collected during three rounds of nation-wide surveys. People's access to these services, their evaluation of the government's performance in providing them, and the problems they (eldis.org)

This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), reports on the costs of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) compared to routine care in Tanzania. It explains that 70 per cent of deaths of young children are caused by five conditions: diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, measles and malnutrition. IMCI is strategy designed to reduce these deaths by improving the skills of health workers, improving health systems, and improving family and community practices. The (eldis.org)

Disabled people's organisations (DPOs) and people with disabilities rarely participate in any PRSP process, despite the professed importance of civil society involvement in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of a country's national poverty reduction strategy. This handbook presents experiences, proposes ideas, and comments on how DPOs and people with disabilities may enter and participate in national PRSP processes. The handbook seeks to be as concise as possible and as comprehensive as is necessary. It (eldis.org)