Amazed how vegetables and fruits could be so expensive!

Inflation hits hard
Going the Zimbabwe way?
The ravages of inflation, now about to hit double digit, are earnestly being felt by Arusha residents many of them saying they have never seen such difficult times.

Prices of all commodities have sky-rocketed  and a large section of the population especially  those in the low income bracket can hardly make ends meet. Inflation country-wide stands at 9.5%

It all started with the sharp rise of petrol and diesel now selling at Tsh.1,750 and Tsh.2,150 respectively compared to about Tsh.1,200 for both around this time last year.
 

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Husband only prime suspect in murder
of ICTR employee
The hearing of a murder case against a Cote d’Ivore (Ivory Coast) national, Armandi Guehi (36), who allegedly murdered his wife Angele Kosiah Sama, nearly three years ago is likely to begin next month at
at the high court of Tanzania in Moshi. The wife was an employee of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) based in Arusha.

The body of 33-year-old Angele, also from the same West African state, was recovered by police one week after she reportedly went missing on October 4, 2005. The remains were discovered at the Lambo Estates of Mkufi in Hai district, Kilimanjaro region.
 

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Beware of chemical misuse

The Government has called on industrial chemical users to apply safely measures and experts advise when using chemicals.

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Wilson Mkama sounded the warning at a workshop on the 2003 Act No. 3 on Industrial Chemicals Applications.

Mkama said the Act was passed for safe chemical uses in homes and industrial factories and supervised by the Government Chemist and said controlled use of chemical was necessary for safe and sustainable social-economic development, saying the spirit was to safeguard the health of the people exposed to chemicals.

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