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Media and Communications: Tanzania

Includes news, newspapers, journals, radio, television, news services, press abstracts, publishing and bookseller associations.

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An-nuur (http://www.islamtz.org/an-nuur/index.html)
Published by the Islamic Propagation Centre in Dar es Salaam. In Swahili.

Arusha Times on the Web (http://www.arushatimes.co.tz/)
Provides online access to the current weekly issues and, via an archive menu, to issues dating back to January 2002.

BBC World Service.com (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/)
Searching this site by country or by topic, offers a choice of news headlines, country profiles, and additional web links on specific aspects such as sports.

Business Times (Dar es Salaam) (http://www.bcstimes.com/)
Offers news in both English and Swahili and links to Business Information Services (BIS) of Tanzania which also provides a range of useful documents.

Committee to Protect Journalists (http://www.cpj.org/)
Searching this site results in a list of recent documents from a number of web sites concerning media activities and press freedom in many countries.

Dar Hotwire (http://www.darhotwire.com/)
Offers “information about the city, [Dar es Salaaam its ] happenings, whereabouts and the places...”

The Express (Online) (http://www.theexpress.com/)
“... the first newspaper on the Internet in Tanzania."

IPP Group of companies, Dar es Salaam (http://www.ippmedia.com/main%5Fcontent/2002/09/18/content.asp)
" Tanzania's premiere information provider - Newspapers, Television and Radio. Daily." Offers links to its many publications and media outlets.

Madunia African Music (http://www.madunia.nl)
“Madunia supports musicians in Africa by funding recording sessions, and provides education about African music and musicians through its websites. Madunia also gives advice on the use of music as an medium of development, and made a video documentary on rap music and education in Tanzania.”

Msimulizi (http://www.msimulizi.com/)
“In Tanzania restrictive laws still empower the government or semi-autonomous bodies to imprison journalists, to ban newspapers or to withdraw licences from broadcasting stations. Msimulizi.com is dedicated to a free Tanzanian press. It is named after the first newspaper of the country, Msimulizi (The Narrator, 1888).”

News Stands at Dar es Salaam and Nairobi (http://www.unb.ca/web/civil/dccchair/dmm/afri-news.html)
Offers links to a number of newspaper and radio sites.

Radio Free Africa (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) (http://www.africaonline.co.tz/rfa/)
"Radio Free Africa - RFA is one of the powerful FM Radio Stations in East Africa with several transmitter sites. Our studios are about 7 km away from the city centre. RFA is equipped with state of the art audio production facilities, talk show studios and satellites facilities. Radio Free Africa signal can be received anywhere in the world."

Radio One (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) (http://www.radio1.co.tz)
In Swahili and English.

Tanserve (http://www.tanserve.com)
Offers information on a range of topics concerning East Africa, particularly Tanzania, including news, activities for tourists, and general background essays.

Tanzania Communications Commission (TCC) (http://www.tcc.go.tz/)
The mission of the TCC is "To develop a stable regulatory environment that will facilitate and attract investors in the communications sector, manage efficiently the common national resources of numbering plan and radio frequency spectrum, at the same time ensure provision of quality, reliable and sufficient postal and telecommunications services throughout the United Republic of Tanzania."

Tanzania Yellow Pages (http://www.yellowpages.co.tz/)
Search by type of business, name of business or location within Tanzania.

Tanzania. Ministry of Communications and Transport (http://www.moct.go.tz/index.htm)
Includes breaking stories such as reports on a rain crash as well as organizational information about two departments within the Ministry, the Department of Communications and Transport and the Department of Planning and Policy.

Washingtonpost.com: World (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/)
Search by country to find recent articles appearing in this newspaper.

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