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Fact Sheet for East African Community

Country: Tanzania; United Republic of

Observations: The East African Community is the regional intergovernmental organisation of the Republics of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, with its Headquarters located in Arusha, Tanzania. The EAC aims at widening and deepening co-operation among the partner states in, among others, political, economic and social fields for their mutual benefit

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STATOIL ASA : Statoil farms in to new Tanzania licence

Statoil has acquired a 12% working interest in the Block 6 licence offshore Tanzania from operator Petrobras Tanzania Ltd.Block 6 covers 5,549 square kilometres in the Mafia basin offshore Tanzania, with a water depth of 1,800 metres. Block 6 is located ... [Published 4 Traders - 29 mins ago]

Entities: Tanzania, Statoil ASA, Agriculture, PETROBRAS Petróleo Brasileiro SA

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

Uranium One Inc

Tanzania Seeking $206 Million Tax Charge from ARMZ

Mining Weekly reported that Tanzania is trying to collect $206 million in taxes from Russian miner JSC Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ), who has been awarded the licence to build the country’s first uranium mine.As quoted in the Mining Weekly report:Tanzania’s ... [Published Uranium Investing News - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Tanzania, Uranium, First Uranium Corp, Uranium One Inc, Heather Wright

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

The East African Community must stop begging

THE process of integration in East Africa is advanced and, although it may not yet be progressing at the pace we would desire, we have not given ourselves the option of turning back. We can only move forward!It remains the responsibility of the governments ... [Published Business Times Online Tanzania - 3 hours ago]

Entities: East African Community, East African Legislative Assembly, Discharge, Mechanic

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

East African Community

Mwinyi wants EAC Day declared public holiday

Former President Ali Hassan MwinyiNovember 30 has been suggested to become the East African Day and a public holiday to enhance citizen’s participation and awareness in the integration process.Former President Ali Hassan Mwinyi made the recommendation ... [Published IPP Media - 4 hours ago]

Entities: East African Community, Juma Mwapachu, Ali Hassan Mwinyi

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 5 hours ago - 2 reports

World Bank Group

Call made to make Dar port leading natural resource

Dar Es Salaam PortJust like other natural resources that Tanzania is endowed with, a call has been made to categorize Dar es Salaam as one of them.Dar es Salaam Port should be looked at as a natural resource for it is undoubtedly a vital source of employment ... [Published IPP Media - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Tanzania, Ports, Reformism, World Bank Group

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 14 hours ago - 2 reports

Opening the Gates: How the port of Dar es Salaam Can Transform Tanzania

The Dar es Salaam Port provides a gateway for 90% of Tanzanian trade and is also the access route to six landlocked countries including Malawi, Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda, and Eastern DRCThe 3rd Tanzania Economic Update reports that inefficiencies ... [Published World Bank - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Ports, Burundi

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 reports

Pascal Lamy

Lamy says EAC way ahead in African trade integration

THE outgoing World Trade Organisation director general Pascal Lamy has rated the East African Community trading block as the most important in the African continent ahead of similar blocks in West and South Africa.He said EAC is three times more integrated ... [Published The Star (Kenya) - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Pascal Lamy, East African Community, World Trade Organization

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 4 reports

Tanzania drafts terms to tame the gas boom

DODOMA (Reuters) - TanzaniaThe draft policy paper seen by Reuters proposes gas companies list on the local stock exchange, creating a gas revenue fund and a national oil and gasTanzania estimates it has 41.7 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable natural ... [Published Yahoo! News - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Tanzania, Mtwara (Tanzania), Natural Gas

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

New initiative improving construction permits acquisition

TPSF Executive Director, Godfrey Simbeye,Solutions to the very constrained process of acquiring construction permits have gained momentum thanks to the new initiative of establishing a private sector led working group to handle the construction permi ... [Published IPP Media - May 23 2013]

Entities: Construction, Tanzania, Acquisition

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Bank of Africa launches e-banking in Tanzania

Bank of Africa Tanzania has launched its B-Web Smart mobile e-banking service, enabling customers to make online money transactions at all times.Customers can access the service by using a smartphone after filling out the B-Web application form at any ... [Published HumanIPO - May 23 2013]

Entities: Bank of Africa, Tanzania, Web Application, Smartphone

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Cross Post: Advancing Food Security by Opening Markets

Note: This is a cross post from the Feed the Future blog. To see the original post, please click here.Ambassador Isi Siddiqui is attending The Chicago Council’s Global Agricultural Development Initiative’s fourth annual Global Security Symposium today ... [Published USTR - May 22 2013]

Entities: Food Security, East African Community, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 3 reports

Why Obama is visiting Tanzania

US President Barack Obama. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUPTanzania’s strategic position in the continent, its abundant natural resources and countering China’s advances to Africa have been cited as some of the reasons why President Barack Obama chose to visit ... [Published Africa Review - May 22 2013]

Entities: Tanzania, Barack Obama, University of Dar Es Salaam, Nation Media Group

Blogs

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The EAC: Regional Engine, African Model [Published World Politics Review: Articles - Feb 20 2013] Since being reconstituted in 1999, the East African Community’s dynamism has helped to propel efforts toward the most ambitious African trade project yet, the so-called Tripartite Free Trade Area. As a result, the goal of a continental economic initiative ...
The African Union Can Do More to Support Region... [Published Brookings Up Front - May 17 2013] Earlier this May in Cape Town, South Africa, economists at the World Economic Forum reaffirmed that regional integration will play a key role in unleashing the continent’s growth potential. More than 10 regional economic communities (RECs) are working ...
The African Union Can Do More to Support Region... [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - May 17 2013] Earlier this May in Cape Town, South Africa, economists at the World Economic Forum reaffirmed that regional integration will play a key role in unleashing the continent’s growth potential. More than 10 regional economic communities (RECs) are working ...
ICC A Regime Change Tool [Published Dogma and Geopolitics - Apr 11 2013] ICC A Regime Change Tool East African Community (EAC) presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. The EAC is expected to reject Somalia and South Sudan as members., a photo by Pan-African ...
The World Changes, but Cities Do Not Move: on E... [Published blogs.worldbank.org - Jan 04 2013] In 1884, the General Act of Berlin Conference established borders of African colonies. Many of these “exogenous” borders brought about by Scramble of Africa could be still found on modern maps, now separating sovereign states. About one third of all ...

Audio/Video

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Building collapses in Tanzania [Published CNN.com - Video - Mar 29 2013]
Independence Day: Tanzania [Published ABN Digital - Video - Dec 10 2012]
At least 34 dead in Tanzania building collapse [Published Reuters Video: Top News - Apr 01 2013]
Tanzania Sells Floating Notes [Published ABN Digital - Video - Feb 28 2013]
VIDEO: Troubled UK teens travel to Tanzania [Published BBC News Video - UK - Dec 09 2012]

Press Releases

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SGS and Savi Bring Advanced Cargo Tracking to T... [Published EON Business - Feb 13 2013]
SGS and Savi Bring Advanced Cargo Tracking to T... [Published EON Computers & Technology - Feb 13 2013]
SGS and Savi Bring Advanced Cargo Tracking to T... [Published EON Manufacturing - Feb 13 2013]
SGS and Savi Bring Advanced Cargo Tracking to T... [Published EON Transportation - Feb 13 2013]
SGS and Savi Bring Advanced Cargo Tracking to T... [Published Business Wire Photo/Multimedia News - Feb 13 2013]