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  • Tanzania’s president convenes a cabinet meeting to discuss the air crash

    Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu will convene an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss the recent plane crash that killed 19 people.

    On November 6, a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria while attempting to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba.

    ATR technical advisers are already on the ground in town to investigate the crash.

    French civil aviation safety investigation experts, as well as Tanzanian experts, have been deployed to the area to conduct an independent investigation into the crash.

    Precision Air, Tanzania’s largest privately owned passenger airline, flew the plane. It has served the Dar es Salaam-Bukoba route since 1994.

  • Kenya gas pipeline: Ruto commits to building Tanzania-

    In an effort to reduce energy prices, Kenya is to move forward with the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, to its coastal city of Mombasa and ultimately to the capital Nairobi, according to Kenya’s President William Ruto.

    Local reports put the costs of the 600km (372-mile) pipeline at about $1.1bn (£990m).

    Mr Ruto spoke to Tanzanian media on Monday, shortly after holding bilateral talks with President Samia Suluhu, on his first visit to the neighbouring country since he took office in September.

    Mr Ruto said the project would lower energy tariffs in the industrial sector, as well as for families in their homes.

    In May last year, Mr Ruto’s predecessor, Uhuru Kenyatta, and Ms Suluhu signed a preliminary agreement covering the transport of gas from Tanzania to Kenya for use in power generation and, potentially, for cooking and heating.

    The deal was said to be part of a longer-term plan to expand infrastructure links between the two big economies of East Africa.

    You can listen to the full media briefing of the two presidents, in Swahili and English, here:

     

     

  • President Samia reshuffles cabinet

    President Samia Suluhu Hassan has on Sunday, October 2, made changes to her cabinet, dropping one and bringing in the former MP and minister Angelah Kairuki.

    The reshuffle comes in five months after she made minor changes in cabinet in April this year.

    In the new changes announced in statement by the Directorate of Presidential Communication Stergomena Tax has been appointed as Minister for Foreign Affairs and East Africa Cooperation, replacing Liberata Mulamula.

    Prior to the new appointment, Tax served as the Defence Minister, being the first woman on the docket.

    Innocent Bashungwa who was the Minister of State in the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government has been moved to Defence ministry taking over from Stergomena Tax.

    In another development, Samia has appointed Ms Angela Kairuki a member of parliament and will succeed Bashungwa at President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government.

    The appointees will take the oaths of their respective offices on Monday, October 3, 2022 at State House Dar es Salaam.

    Source: Thecitizen.co.tz