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Tanzanian Minister for Co-operatives George Kahama (centre) on a tour of the Kenya Union of Savings and Credit Co-operatives Ltd headquarters in Nairobi last week. With him are managing director Edward Mudibo (left) and Carol Karugu, head of corporate affairs. Mr Kahama led a Tanzanian government delegation on a tour of various saccos and other Kenyan co-operative movements. Photo by Joseph Mathenge

 

Kenya Faces Wave of Crippling Strikes
LOW PAY and job insecurity are fuelling discontent in Kenya's public sector, with key utility providers facing threats of industrial action that the government appears unprepared to address or resolve.

The discontent is largely said to arise from recent selective salary reviews for teachers, judicial officers, the police force, university lecturers, permanent secretaries and Members of Parliament while employees in state corporations' and on the central government payroll have been left out.

Now Zanzibar Wants 10pc of Union Revenue
A SIMMERING row over the distribution of revenue between the Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar governments could soon come to a head as Zanzibar presses for an increase from the current 4.5 per cent that was set in 1994 to 10 per cent.

 

EA Now Closer to Joint Control of L. Victoria
BIDS FROM seven shortlisted firms – from East Africa and overseas – that are competing to provide consultancy services to manage Lake Victoria are to be opened in May in Jinja, Uganda, in a move that signals a shift in the use of the resources of the lake by the three riparian states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

 
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