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2022 - 8 - 15

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470 Tanzanite miners lose permits over Sh700 million unpaid dues (The Citizen)

The government has suspended licences issued to at least 470 tanzanite small-scale miners over Sh700 million in unpaid dues.

According to Mr Mshai, the 470 miners have 30 days to settle monies owed to his office short of which they would not be allowed into the mining sites. A total of 470 of them will have to settle the outstanding fees or engage on other income generating activities to earn a living. Should they fail pay the money, they would be taken to court under the new mining laws and their amendments.

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Bridging the citizen journey: Addressing technical debt within the ... (Open Access Government)

The need to integrate legacy systems has slowed down progress with there being a hesitancy to adopt new technology within the public sector.

Only when this is done, can the public sector bridge the citizen journey and create meaningful experiences that build trust. This is only possible once they begin to address the technical debt that prevents citizens being provided the experiences they expect and deserve. Then, public sector organisations can really begin to respond to needs with empathy by truly understanding citizens issues and giving them experiences personalised to their needs. This is particularly important as citizens want to know that public sector organisations care about their needs, and more so than the private sector. It is essential the public sector organisations build trust amongst the communities they serve, which can only happen with the right technology in place to prioritise, listen and respond to citizen needs with empathy. These services can then be scaled in line with this, ensuring the maximum support is given where it’s needed most, and citizen issues are responded to and resolved swiftly.

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A harrowing escape from childhood marriage in Mwanga (The Citizen)

Enteshi John (not her real name) in the library of the secondary school she was enrolled in after attempts by her father to marry her off to a man in his ...

FCS provided a grant to Ajiso to establish child protection committees in Mwanga. Between June and December 2020, Ajiso trained and empowered more than 50 stakeholders to found and serve on the child protection committees. I wanted a chance to change my society – help them understand that there is more to life than the cows we rear,” she says. Acting in collaboration with the Mwanga district administration, they seek to make this policy standard among all schools. After the first instance, he had promised not to marry her off again. This time in early 2020, with schools closed to halt the spread of Covid-19, her father saw an opportunity to try again. She trekked once again, blanketed by darkness and with the sounds of the odd hyena eerily in the distance, to the main road into Mwanga Town. She had flashbacks to her first escape, when she had to hide at a safe house until her primary school exam results came out, and she could enrol in secondary school.

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Tanesco in joint venture with UAE's Masdar (The Citizen)

Tanzania's utility firm Tanesco has entered into a joint venture with a United Arab Emirates company to generate a further 2000MW of electricity using ...

The country is striving for a minimum 75 per cent electrification by 2035, up from the World Bank’s estimate of 39.9 per cent in 2020. According to Energy minister January Makamba, the deal is as a result of President Samia Suluhu ’s visit to the UAE in February. According to both Tanesco managing director Maharage Chande and Masdar’s head of business development Abdulla Zayed, the target is to bring all 2,000MW of renewable electricity on board by early 2024, which will coincide with the scheduled commissioning of the dam project on the Rufiji River.

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