In Dar es Salaam in Tanzania electricity is on only for two unpredictable hours a day.
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It is the first phase of a government scheme to improve the transport network in Dar es Salaam.
The first day I met Bi Kidude was during the TEDex event in Dar es Salaam back in September 2011.
Meanwhile, emergency workers in Dar es Salaam have stopped rescue operations following the collapse of a multi-storey building on Friday.
Private commuter minibuses, known as "daladalas", are the main mode of transport in Dar es Salaam, one of the world's fastest-growing cities.
Kenya left it late but eventually qualified for the quarter-finals of the Cecafa Challenge Cup by beating Somalia 2-0 on Friday in Dar es Salaam .
He told the court he had met the buyers at Ghailani's home in Dar es Salaam and at the city's Al-Noor hotel to close the deal.
The BBC's Leonald Mubali in Dar es Salaam, which has a population of about 2.5 million, says many residents have welcomed the new railway service and hope that it will be expanded.
The building collapsed Friday with a "huge whoosh and then thump, " said Ali Jawad Bhimani, a hotel owner who lives near the building in Dar es Salaam's normally bustling Kariakoo central business district.
The workshop has also included the regional commissioner for the Mwanza Region, the district commissioner for the Sengerema District, the Director of the UNESCO Office in Dar es Salaam, a district health official from Sengerema and representatives from the Youth of the United Nations Association.
If the three-time Nigerian champions get a draw in their next match against Simba in Dar-es-Salaam, they would secure their place in the tournament's last four.
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Mr Albwardy owns three hotels in Tanzania - the Kilimanjaro Hotel in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, a beach hotel in Zanzibar and a lodge in the Serengeti national park - through the company Albwardy Investment, reports Reuters news agency.
This follows the complaint made by the Zambian champions that Rajab was ineligible for the first-leg encounter played in Dar-es-Salaam two weeks ago.
On Aug. 7, 1998 , the peace in neighboring Kenya, and Tanzania to the south, was shattered when simultaneous bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam killed more than 200 people, most of them locals.
Shortly after Ethiopian forces took control of Mogadishu, US aircraft pursued fleeing al-Qaida terrorists in southern Somalia after intelligence reports indicated that among the fleeing ICU leaders were the masterminds of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
The BBC's Baruan Muhuza, in the main city of Dar es Salaam, says one of them is believed to be seriously injured.
Police have confirmed that a civilian and a policeman have died in riots on Wednesday in the Tanzanian commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
The programme is a joint initiative of two UNESCO sectors (Education, through the Associated Schools Project network, and Natural Sciences, through the Small Islands and Indigenous Knowledge Section) in the framework of the Intersectoral Platform for Small Island Developing States, and in cooperation with the UNESCO Offices in Apia, Dar-es-Salaam, Kingston and other regions.
Mr Bary - indicted on 284 counts - will also be put on trial for his alleged involvement in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - which caused the deaths of more than 200 people and injured thousands more.
The first-ever commuter train service in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, has been launched to ease congestion on roads.
The Graf Goetzen was then transported in parts, in 500 crates, from Hamburg to Dar es Salaam on the coast of East Africa - and from there over mountains to Lake Tanganyika where Germany, Britain and Belgium were all engaged in colonial jostling.
That was the reason I jumped at the opportunity in January, 2009 to visit Kenya and Tanzania as a guest of the Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam chapters of the Young Presidents Organization.
Rushing waterfalls, steep slopes, 10 species of primates and a wealth of unique bird and plant species are the highlights of hiking in the seldom-visited Udzungwa Mountains, located about a six hour's drive southwest of Dar es Salaam.
The port of Dar es Salaam failed to pinch business from Kenya's port, Mombasa, when Kenya was in turmoil a year ago.
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