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Mount Meru Millers now ordered to close down (Photo by Valentine Marc Nkwame)

Mount Meru Millers ordered to close down
Plant found filthy, awful
Mount Meru Millers, the Njiro based manufacturer of ‘Sunola’ and ‘Goldy’ brands of cooking oils had an unusual New Year gift from the Arusha Municipal Council. The Council’s authorities last week ordered it shut and production stopped.
Repeating the same mistake it did in 2006, only this time making it worse, the edible-oil producing factory had for the last five months been clouding the entire Themi-Hills area with dark, pungent fumes of Carbon Monoxide from its giant boilers while at the same time gushing murky waters from its drainage pipes.
The notorious Mount Meru Millers’ pollution strikes again at the time when global warming brought about by increased carbon emissions are the most sensitive subjects being discussed around the globe.

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‘Money makers’ cause chaos
Currency made in Kaloleni lacks quality

By Our Police Reporter

What is a more pleasant way of starting 2009 than being in a position to be able to mint your own money, whatever amount that you need. Two Dar es Salaam based crooks came to Arusha at the beginning of the year with a brand new money minting machine to help people of Arusha make money.
They succeeded for a while but now they are behind remand prison bars. The two suspects Godfrey Raphael (33) and Mohamed Shaban (33) were arrested at Kaloleni on January 2. with their production equipment and accessories.

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Six months of tourism blues

There will be six months of a tourism lull. Local tour operators have reported postponement of potential visitors to Tanzania this season.
“But most tourists have not yet cancelled their programs, they simply postponed their trips waiting for the world’s economic situation to stabilize,” Mustafa Akonaay the Executive Officer of the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators, explained.
But tourists coming from the UK and USA have mostly called off their programs. Europe and America were the hardest hit areas when the global economy crisis blanketed the world as from October last year.