Long term places to stay

From Mwanza Guide 'online'
By Hans Kristoffersen, editor

Mwanza Guide 'online' is looking for furnished apartments (2, 3 and 4-room) and 4 - 5 room houses (furnished) in Mwanza for foreign clients. We have frequent enquires from individuals in NGOs, companies in the mining business and researchers - who are working/staying in Mwanza for a period of time.

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Joseph Laurent (joseph@mwanza-guide.com) Phone: +255 754 487396

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Bus accident kills 2, injures 36 in Mwanza

From The Citizen Daily, Dar es Salaam
By Sheilla Sezzy

Two people died on the spot and 36 others were severely wounded after a bus plying between Bunda and Mtukula in Kagera Region overturned at Kahangala area in Magu District, Mwanza Region yesterday morning.

Eye witnesses said the bus, which was moving at a very high speed, overturned after it swerved and went wild due to a slippery road.

Mwanza Regional Police Commander, Mr Ernest Mangu, said the accident involved a bus with registration number T782 BKZ.

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Floods wash bridge away on key road

From The Citizen Daily, Dar es Salaam
By Gasper Andrew

Over 300 vehicles have been stranded at Msisi Village in Singida District after flood waters from a downpour washed away a bridge on the Singida-Mwanza highway on New Year Day.

The floods also caused the death of a Chinese national -- whose name could not be obtained immediately -- in a separate incident in Singida Region.

Yesterday, The Citizen witnessed long lines of vehicles on both sides of the point from which the bridge was washed away by the floods resulting from four hours of pounding rain on Tuesday.

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Mwanza’s per capita income up

From The Citizen Daily, Dar es Salaam

Mwanza Region has achieved great success in the poverty alleviation campaign, recording an increase of its residents per capita income from Sh421, 379 in 2005 to Sh924, 536 by June 2012.

The region’s seven-year development report shows that the residents’ income has gone up by 219 per cent.

The report on the region’s economic achievement was released yesterday by the Mwanza Regional commissioner, Eng Everist Ndikilo, at his year-end meeting with the media and experts from several government departments in the region.

“The increase, which is approximately Sh2,500 per day, means that Mwanza residents are far above the poverty line pegged at below $1 (Sh1,500)“, explained Eng Ndikilo.

Further, Mr Ndikilo said, agriculture has remained the leading sector in the region by producing more than 75 per cent of its income.

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Local, foreign firms agree to upgrade skills of employees

From The Citizen Daily, Dar es Salaam
By Miguel Suleyman

The Maswi Drilling Company Limited has signed a contract with a Canadian firm called Scintrex for technical training that would upgrade the company’s services into international standards.

Now operating nationwide, the firm’s technical empowerment drive, aims to fast-track its endeavours to penetrate new markets in Malawi, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Burundi.

The company’s finance and administrative manager, Mr Michael Maungo, revealed this yesterday before a press conference held at the New Mwanza Hotel. He said his company has already paid the Canadian firm $10,000 (about Sh15 million) to bring an expert for training its employees in a project slated to start in January 2013.

“The company has recently bought four sets of ultramodern rigging equipment to facilitate its international market takeover,” he said.

He named some of the equipment as Super Rock 1000 and Super Rock 5000 as well as four compressors, all capable of drilling boreholes 50 to 200 metres deep.

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Mwanza Firm to Drill Wells On Credit

From Daily News, Dar es Salaam
By Moses Matthew

MASWI Drilling Company Limited plans to spend 2.5bn/- in 2013 to solve water problems in parts of the country that are hard hit by scarcity of water by introducing a new scheme of drilling boreholes and wells on loan.

The company's Finance and Administrative Manager, Mr Michael Maungo, told reporters yesterday that the scheme of drilling boreholes on credit will be unique in the country.

"I believe that this programme will be new not only in the country but also in neighbouring countries such as Kenya and Uganda," said Mr Maungo. He observed that the company's management is optimistic that they will be able to deliver, noting that they will also be able to create employment through their planned projects for the coming year.

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Happy NEW YEAR

From Mwanza Guide 'online, Mwanza