Man Utd: Jose Mourinho 'does not know' about Old Trafford job

         Jose Mourinho waiting for 'right move'

Jose Mourinho says he does not know about becoming the next Manchester United manager, but is hoping to be back in football this summer.

Earlier this month, BBC Sport reported that United had held talks with representatives of the Portuguese.
Mourinho, 53, was sacked by Chelsea in

Majimaji in safe horizon despite porous defence

 Mtibwa Sugar

 Songea-based top flight side Majimaji FC has taken huge leap to stay on safe horizon and suspend relegation fever after twenty appearances in the Mainland premier soccer league.

 

Positioned eleventh in the 16-team league, Majimaji has managed five wins, four draws and

1964 #Porsche 356 Cabriolet Emory Outlaw First Drive
The black lacquer badge affixed to this 1964 Porsche 356 Cabriolet has two words on it: "356 Outlaws." When it was first produced by a jeweler in the 1980s for the

Tennis starlet locked out of Africa tourney

Arusha International Conference Centre Tennis Club (AICC) has failed to raise $677 that world have catered for their teen player Yusuf Goodwin’s return flight ticket to Johannesburg.

 

Godwin is lined up to represent Tanzania at this year’s African Junior Tennis Championships (AJTC) to be staged in Pretoria early next month.

Lack of funds has compelled the teen to pullout from the ten-day continental championship that gets underway in Pretoria from March 8.

 National tennis team head coach Nicholas Jonas who is accompanying the team said

Protesters confront DC over rights abuses, poor pay at Chinese firm

Arusha District Commissioner, Fadhili Nkurlu

 Over 100 workers of Chinese construction firm Catic yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration to the office of the Arusha District Commissioner to protest their humiliation and abuse of their rights as well as poor pay.

They also demanded to be given permanent work contracts, improved working environment and working gear.

UN calls for anti-poaching campaigns

UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Representative in Tanzania, Alvaro Rodriguez.

 UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Representative in Tanzania, Alvaro Rodriguez has called on the government to enhance the anti-poaching campaign, as the vice threatens to retard the tourism industry in the country.

 Rodriguez made the call in Dar es Salaam yesterday when he and other envoys from Turkey, Ireland, and

Envoys pledge more support to Tanzania

President John Magufuli.

SEVERAL heads of diplomatic missions accredited to Tanzania have pledged to support the development of various sectors in the country in their talks with President John Magufuli and the Prime Minister, Mr Kassim Majaliwa, in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

President Magufuli met with the Ambassadors of The Netherlands, Indian High Commissioner of India and High Commissioner of Zambia while the prime minister met with the Turkey, Switzerland and Ireland ambassadors as well as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) representative in the country.

US impressed by successes recorded on health programmes it supports

THE US government has hailed the long partnership with Tanzania which has helped to see the latter strengthening laboratory capacity, disease tracking systems and epidemiology training under the Global Health Security Agenda.

“This is a success programme in which Tanzania has the capacity now to train its doctors to study the problem here and respond effectively,” said the Director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr Tom Frieden.

Seven killed as bus crashes into building at Bunda

SEVEN people died, six on the spot, after the bus they were travelling in from Serengeti to Mwanza lost control and crashed into a building at Bunda in Mara Region yesterday morning.

Mara Regional Police Commander (RPC) Philip Kalangi said 24 passengers have been admitted to Bunda DDH Hospital, while five among the

DRC envoy urges Congolese people to support Magufuli

  

A NEW Ambassador of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Tanzania Mr Jean Mutamba.

A NEW Ambassador of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Tanzania Mr Jean Mutamba has asked the Congolese in the country to ensure they work with President John Magufuli’s line of work in order to enhance productive collaboration between the two countries.

Ambassador Mutamba made the call in Dar es Salaam during a grand reception organized by the Embassy of Congo in collaboration with the Congolese Community in the country to welcome

NBA junior league lands at JMK Park

THE National Basketball Association (NBA) will officially launch the first season of the Jr. NBA Basketball League at the Jakaya M. Kikwete (JMK) Youth Park in Dar es Salaam on Saturday.

NBA Vice-President and Managing Director – Africa Amadou Gallo Fall said the event will

Golfers ready for Turkish Open Golf

24 February 2016

DAR ES SALAAM Gymkhana Club course will be busy this Saturday when over 80 golfers will be engaged in a race for tickets to play in the Turkish Grand Final.

The tournament is being organised by Turkish Airline and is open to all golfers wishing to play and win the chance to play in Turkey courtesy of Turkish Airline.

According to the statement released yesterday by

Azam out to reclaim pilot seat

AZAM are poised to reclaim the pilot seat of the Vodacom Premier League (VPL), but they have to clear Tanzania Prisons hurdle at Sokoine Stadium in Mbeya.

Second-placed side will be also hunting for their second away win, a few days

UK hails Magufuli on taxes, graft fight

UK High Commissioner to Tanzania, Ms Dianne Melrose.

THE United Kingdom has showered praise on the Fifth Phase Government under President John Magufuli for its efforts in strengthening revenue

Massive Immigration shake-up

24 February 2016

HOME Affairs Minister Charles Kitwanga has ordered the transfer of all immigration officials at both Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) and Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) to other workstations in the country.

In a major reshuffle in the history of the Tanzania Immigration Services, the minister has also ordered that also officials working in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) Department be axed from the two major airports and be deployed to other duty stations.
The reshuffle, according to Mr Kitwanga, is geared at increasing efficiency in the department and that it is part of the reshuffle that he intends to institute in the department that he said was important to the development of the country.

GDP tops 90trn/- amid poor agriculture growth

 New government figures show that Tanzania's economy is boosted by communications, mining and financial services sectors

 Tanzania’s gross domestic product (GDP) exceeded the Tshs 90 trillion/- mark in the year 2015, buoyed by the communications, mining and financial services sectors, while agriculture - the mainstay of the national economy – continued to lag behind, according to latest government data.

Swedish doctor given 10 years for bunker kidnapping

A Swedish doctor has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of kidnapping a woman and keeping her in a bunker for six days.

Martin Peter Trenneborg had admitted kidnapping her but denied and was acquitted of rape.
He had planned to hold her captive as a girlfriend in the purpose-built bunker for years.
The 38-year-old abducted his victim after meeting her for a date in Stockholm last September.
He has been dubbed the "Swedish Fritzl", after the case of Austrian Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter locked up in a cellar for 24 years.

Justin Trudeau: Canada leader to march in Toronto gay pride

Canada's Justin Trudeau will become the first world leader known to have taken part in a gay pride march, organisers of the Toronto event have announced.

Mr Trudeau will march in the 3 July parade alongside the city's mayor and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the first lesbian premier in Canada.
The newly elected leader tweeted: "Very much looking forward to being there again, this time as PM. #PrideTO."
Organisers say gay Syrian refugees will also take part, Canadian Press reports.