A MINOR Mwanzani Athuman collects underground water which comes through an internet cable chamber along Kilwa Road in Dar es Salaam on Friday. In spite of the availability of such water still several city residents cannot afford to drill wells to extract clean water. (Photo by Robert Okanda)
Vice-President, Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal in an interview with UN radio presenter, Ms Flora Nducha, in New York on Friday. Dr Bilal is attending the UN conference on AIDS. (Photo by Muhidin Sufiani of VPO)
A woman displays her merchandise in a restricted trading area at Kariakoo market in Dar es Salaam. The market has correctly lost its reputation as the authorities looks at the market environment which is surrounded by filth that stays uncollected for long time and apparently doesn’t take any action as the photo at the scene shows, a trailer full of filth that pose unhealthy condition at the market.
Is the Central Bank of Tanzania aware of this? Tanzanian worthless coins have been turned a selling commodity in public. The situation can be seen in most Daladala bus stops in Dar es Salaam. Few unscrupulous traders who calls themselves money changers in black markets exchanges Tanzanian coins to would be Daladala conductors and other people around at the expense of the shortage of keep change. Each bundle of a coin worth Tshs. 800/- is exchanged for Tshs. 1,000/- note. But it’s very unfortunate that, these traders are not licensed to operate like bureau de change shops and to make it more worse, the Bank of Tanzania seems to have turned a blind aye to the situation that has escalated broadly in the city of Dar es Salaam. Above, a young lady and a boy arranges their coins in bundles at a bus stand at Banana when I captured them waiting for customers. According to them, they make a profit of Tshs. 200/- for every bundle sold so as to make end a day’s living.
Information is power and newspapers have become expensive commodities that is rarely affordable by most citizens in Tanzania. A daily newspaper sells at between Tshs. 500/- and Tshs. 700/- this is almost a half of a daily earning per person according to the statistics made available by the National Economic Statistics Bureau. The firm’s shows that, due to the prevailing poverty stricken situation in the country, most people still depend on 1 USD, an aspect that most citizens are not able to buy newspapers and instead relies on reading news stories which have been given the precedence on the front pages to quench their thirst. The photo above shows a group of people peeping their eyes through such news at a newspaper vending area whose owner has decided to hang them up for fear of being damaged by crook readers who never buys them.
As the scene depicts, petty traders selling their merchandise at a railway crossing at Buguruni near SSB industries. In the background two trucks loaded with unmoved heap of a stinking filth. Those in the environmental health sector hazards have to be blamed for their failure to keep the surrounding clean, as this is likely to pose health dangers to people around.
The Director General of the Economic Processing Zones Authority (EPZA) Dr. Adelhelm Meru responds questions to a National Television crew (TBC) during a two day workshop organized by EPZA together with the investors in Dar es Salaam recently. The workshop was held at Mlimani City Conference centre. According to Dr. Meru, his Authority plans to expand its processing zones in upcountry regions with the first pilot project to be established at Bagamoyo. This is in a bid to increase more investors
