Tanzania Reduces 2008 Growth Forecast, Ministry Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tanzania cut its economic growth forecast for 2008 and may reduce its estimates for the next three years as the global financial crisis trims exports and leads to a slowdown in tourism, the Finance Ministry said.

Tanzania Media Houses Launch HIV/AIDS Workplace Policies (Medical News Today)

Eighteen Tanzanian media houses on Sunday launched HIV/AIDS workplace policies in response to news from the Tanzania Health Index Survey that the country could lose 9% of its most economically productive population to the disease by 2020, the Tanzania Daily News reports.

AIRCOM Provides Planning and Optimisation Managed Services to Vodacom Tanzania (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

LEATHERHEAD, England & CAPE TOWN, South Africa----AIRCOM International, the leading independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, today announced that its work with Vodacom Tanzania Ltd will help the operator implement a dynamic tariff offering.

Tanzania: Albino Foundation Condemns Killing of Albinos in Tanzania (AllAfrica.com)

The Albino Foundation in Nigeria has condemned, in strong language, the killing of albinos in Tanzania for ritual purposes while calling for a more drastic action to protect them.

FTS Provides Billing Services in Tanzania (BillingWorld)

Tanzania Telecom (TTCL) says it has successfully deployed FTS ’ end-to-end billing solution. The solution supplied to TTCL will enable the Tanzanian operator to provide customer care, rating, billing, provisioning and interconnect services to its subscribers over both wireline and wireless networks.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-18 13:57 UPDATE 1-Tanzania inflation rises to 11.8 pct y/y in Oct (Interactive Investor)

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Tanzania's annual inflation rose to 11.8 percent in October from 11.6 percent in September due to an increase in food prices, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. "The Annual Headline Inflation rate for the year ended October 2008 increased to 11.8 percent compared to 11.6 percent that was registered for the year ended September 2008," NBS ...

Tanzania Telecommunications Company Ltd. (TTCL) Deploys FTS' End-to-End Billing Solution (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Booth P43, November 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FTS , a global provider of Billing, CRM and Business Control solutions for communications and content service providers, today announced that Tanzania Telecommunications Company Ltd. , Tanzania's main telecommunications operator, has successfully deployed FTS' end-to-end billing solution.

Peace Corps teaches life lessons (The Desert Sun)

Marissa Krause said she had no idea where Tanzania was until the Peace Corps assigned her to teach health education there as part of a 27-month program.

Health center gifts headed overseas (The Globe Gazette)

MASON CITY — It was moving day Wednesday as Good Shepherd Health Center donated 40 used hospital beds and other health care equipment for delivery to a hospital in Tanzania.

Tanzania: Stop Senseless Deaths! (AllAfrica.com)

LAST week it was reported in the Tanzanian media that police in Rukwa Region, (south west Tanzania) were holding a fisherman from Kalungu village for allegedly attempting to 'sell' his albino wife, one Janet Mlele to Congolese businessmen.