Arusha lacks secondary school places

Secondary schools in Arusha are so short of places that about 7,000 children may be left out of the Form One intake in 2010. This is partly because of a lack of classrooms but also because a large number of...

Floods hit Arusha-Babati road

Just before Christmas the local Arusha Times was wondering what might have happened to the 400 or so hippos that inhabited Lake Babati, a small lake about two hours travel south of the north Tanzanian city. It quoted local inhabitants...

Ngorongoro cattle killed by drought

According to estimates by local government officers over 100,000 cattle out of a total of about 380,00 had died by the end of November 2009 in the Ngorongoro region as a result of the prolonged drought. The heavy rains that...

Arusha gets new hotels

Tourist figures in Tanzania may have been down by ten per cent in the first ten months of 2009, but new hotels are going up all over Arusha, the centre of the northern safari circuit, the gateway to the Serengeti...

Tanzanian farmers to get help from FAO

Farmers in Tanzania are to benefit from a project of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to improve production and get their produce to market. The German-sponsored scheme intends to help Tanzania move from subsistence to commercial agriculture...

East African Community marks ten years

The East African Community (EAC) marks its tenth anniversary in November with a programme of events in Arusha organised under the theme “EAC: Ten Years of Integration: One People, One Destiny”. Initiatives include a symposium on 13-14 November 2009 with participation...

Arusha property racket targets foreigners

Foreigners have become the target of a racket linked to property sales in Arusha, the Arusha Times reports. Racketeers posing as estate agents have allegedly been offering unavailable plots or houses to potential buyers for large sums of money. The racket centres...

New textile factory in Arusha

A new cotton-spinning factory has opened just outside Arusha, providing jobs for 250 people, the Arusha Times reports. The Jambo Spinning Mills and Textile Company is located in Usa River township on the Arusha-Moshi road. Its opening is seen as a...

Mama Africa Circus comes to town

Roll up, roll up: the circus is in town! Mama Africa Circus, founded and directed by Winston Ruddle, a former acrobat from Zimbabwe, has set up its big top at the Arusha International Conference Centre club grounds near the Impala...

New HIV/AIDS treatment centre opens

A new centre specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment has opened at the state-run Mount Meru regional hospital in Arusha. The centre has been built with funding from the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). It will provide services to...