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  AUTHORITIES in Dodoma will soon okay construction of a new mega bus terminal and a commercial tower complex that proponents say will improve transit connections and transform the municipality’s skyline.   Dodoma Municipal Council announced that it was setting up a new bus terminal, one of the largest in the country. The construction is expected to start early next month and take at least 24 months. But speaking to the ‘Daily News,’ the Municipal Director Mr Godwin Kunambi said, "Work on the project is at an advanced stage." He said a team of experts is reviewing submission from dozen construction firms that applied for the job. "We are now on the evaluation stage of all submissions, since we announced the tender early this year," he said. It was not immediately revealed how much the project will cost. But, details released by the Municipality shows that the mega-bus terminal will seat on a 50- acre plot at Nzuguni suburb about 7 km from the city centre on t...

THE Republic of Somalia is in the line-up for becoming the 7th member of the East African Community (EAC). The prospect will be on the agenda for discussions as the regional bloc’s Heads of State assemble in Kampala, Uganda, from tomorrow. The Ugandan Minister of State for EAC Affairs, Mr Julius Wandera Maganda, who currently chairs the Council of Ministers, revealed in a statement here that the six heads of state from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and South-Sudan will review progress of the verification exercise for the admission of the Republic of Somalia into the EAC. The inclusion of Mogadishu will make the East African Community to now own ‘The Horn of Africa,’ and boast the longest coastline of the Indian Ocean on the continent. The joint population of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, South-Sudan and (if admitted) Somalia, will be close to 190 million in total, which is essentially the same number of people as Nigeria. Apart from discussing the ...

THE report on illegal fishing has been submitted with shocking findings of massive uses of illegal fishing gears. The report claims that over 70 per cent of all fishermen in the country use illegal gears, some influential public figures in the local governments, legislators and leaders of political parties behind the crime. Revealing the details of the report before the Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa here yesterday, the Minister for Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Luhaga Mpina said the crackdown against illegal fishing had also unveiled shocking statistics of fish and related products being smuggled to neighbouring countries, subjecting the nation to massive economic losses. He said in 2017 alone over four million kilogrammes of fish worth billions of shillings were smuggled to Malawi through certain routes in the southern part of the country while over 100,000 kilogrammes were smuggled weekly to Uganda through Bukoba route. “The operation is going on and will not end unti...