01:34 GMT 25th April 2012
BG Group's major gas discovery in Tanzania brings it a step closer to bankrolling a rwo-train liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant along the prolific east African coastline, promising billions more worth of investments and raising hopes of the area's export potential.
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02:17 GMT 30th March 2012
Tanzania plans to start opening up its capital account this year, enabling it to attract more investment initially from other members of the East African Community and then from the rest of the world by 2015.
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04:56 GMT 9th March 2012
Tanzania's economic growth slowed to 6.4 per cent in the third quarter of 2011 from 6.7 per cent a year earlier, driven by communications, mining and construction sectors, but short of the government's full-year target.
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03:46 GMT 8th November 2011
China and Tanzania are expected to sign a $1.06bn loan deal to build a natural gas pipeline from the southern part of the east African country to its commercial capital, a Tanzanian newspaper quoted its energy minister as saying.
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12:28 GMT 28th September 2011
Japan agreed with Tanzania on August 28 to finance a grant worth 1.86bn yen ($24.2m) for the construction of a {) bridge linking the east African country with its neighbour Rwanda to help boost trade.
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01:15 GMT 31st August 2011
Africa needs to invest more in bringing ICT into schools to ensure that youngsters have the skills for tomorrow's world, a conference has heard. By Zachary Ochieng, Dar es Salaam.
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02:21 GMT 18th July 2011
Tanzania's parliament last month approved a $27.4bnn five-year development plan, backing the proposed introduction of a super-profit tax on mining companies.
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01:22 GMT 15th July 2011
Sadc member states are upset with a disputes tribunal they set up following a number of successful cases filed by white litigants. By Chofamba Sithole
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02:19 GMT 20th May 2011
Tanzania has ordered its army to escort ships searching for oil and gas off its coast to protect them from Somali pirates.
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04:04 GMT 12th April 2011
Tanzania's economy will grow at a slower rate than previously expected this year, weighed down by a power crisis and rising prices, and accelerating inflation is a concern, the IMF said in March.
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10:41 GMT 15th February 2011
China's Sichuan Hongda will invest $3bn in a coal-fired power plant and two iron ore mines in Tanzania, the state-run National Development Corporation (NDC) said in January.
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02:31 GMT 5th January 2011
'The elections are over. We should let bygones be bygones and ensure that peace and stability prevail,' Kikwete said, adding, ' would like our security forces to be on the alert. We should not give an opportunity to anybody or groups of people from inside or outside Tanzania to endanger our peace.'
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