Tag: Tanzania

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2007-12 “Africa may not achieve its noble objectives of improving the well-being and quality of life of its people if the issues of population dynamics are not adequately addressed.”
-- Amani Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar, while opening the Fifth African Population Conference in Arusha, Tanzania
2007-09 Uganda and Democratic Republic Congo signed an agreement in Tanzania to open "joint oil exploration and exploitation" in Lake Albert.
2007-08 The Summit of East African Community (EAC = Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania) Heads of State decided, in Arusha, that the negotiations on the Common Market Protocol should be finalised by 2008 and the Monetary Union operationalised by 2012 as the EAC moves towards a Political Federation.
2007-03-28 President Mugabe flies to Tanzania for a two-day meeting with heads of state of the SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) region. The meeting, which was originally scheduled as a ministerial meeting, was upgraded to an emergency summit of heads of state following recent disturbances in Zimbabwe and DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo).
2006-11-01 Six countries -- including Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Eritrea and Burkina Faso -- had managed an average reduction of 29% over the last 10 years in newborn mortality rates
2006-11-01 Half of Africa's infant mortality occurred in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda
2006-06 The Ministry of East African Community (EAC) Affairs was established.
2005-01 The East African Community Partner States of Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania launched the Customs Union.

The main objective of the Customs Union is to facilitate free movement of goods within and amongst the Partner States through elimination of internal tariffs, removal of non-tariff barriers to trade, and applying a Common External Tariff, among other measures.
1998-08-07 US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, are simultaneously bombed, killing 258 people and injuring more than 5,000.
1998-05 "Their presence has no meaning save one and that is to offer support to the Jews in Palestine who are in need of their Christian brothers to achieve full control over the Arab Peninsula which they intend to make an important part of the so called Greater Israel...."
-- Osama bin Laden explained his call for Muslims to take arms against America

nb. This is a little over two months before the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

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