since as most of you well know that during his era Dodoma was flourishing economically attracting Capital from all over the country but now things are kinda slowing down a bit..so my question is if you are RC,DC or Director how will you do it to make sure that the city doesn't sunk?

Hi! I'm in Dodoma visiting family for a while. The city seems so dull and serious. What fun things can I do here?

Alt title: What are diminishing returns and why should I care?

Kito Knight and the Global Diligence Coalition rode into power on a wave of support for the "Tanzani New Deal" - a massive effort to build up Tanzani infrastructure in a matter of months by harnessing the sheer weight of the economy. It was also the single most effective measure in our history for combatting the sins of sloth and joblessness. Now, facing elections in just a few months' time, the GDC representatives in the House of Representatives and House of Delegates have gambled on another wave of investment in infrastructure, hoping that the successful prosecution of the Golden Coast police action and continued investments in the economy will let the GDC coast into another majority.

The ever increasing population density of the Union's six major cities makes them vibrant places to live, though traffic has started to become an issue. Mwinyi Architecture recently began building the support columns for the Freedom Tower project, located near the center of Dodoma, which is planned to be a 108-story office building featuring largely natural light and open office plans as a callback to traditional Tanzani architecture. Already, offices in the Tower are being rented out for millions of shillings per year to the Union's most powerful corporations. The United Shipyards, Zakia Aerospace, Anasa Motors, Mzuzi Armory, and many others have already reserved multiple floors of the building for their offices.

Some have wondered if the Freedom Tower project will kickstart a wave of skyscraper construction across the Union, and many architecture companies are beginning to draw up their own plans for these lucrative contracts should this come to pass.

Dodoma, Tanzania - Nov-Dec 2021

 

As Abdu Mbibo arrives at the local Chamber of Commerce to apply for a business permit, he prepares himself for the couple hundred dollars worth of bribes he will have to give in order to finally pursue his dreams of opening a local transportation services company. Not to mention the many probably bribes he'll have to give in order to obtain small government contracts and further permits; it'll take ages for him to achieve a profit due to the many off-the-books transactions needed to simply operate a Tanzanian business. While Mbibo knows he is hardly the only Tanzanian to suffer from his country's corrupt system, it's still a hard pill to swallow for the young entrepreneur. Perhaps those fellows in the Return to Family Values Conference have a point.

 

As the Return to Family Values Conference (RFMC) continues to gain support in Tanzania, the Magufuli ideal of an incorruptible Tanzania has seen ever greater support. Tanzanians, ranging from private citizens to legislators, have all continued to call for greater anti-corruption action. Seeing this groundswell of real grassroots support, the RFMC's influential members in the Chama Cha Mapinduzi have promoted stringent anti-corruption measures in the National Assembly. President Hassan herself has decided to continue late President Magufuli's tendency to conduct unannounced inspections of government offices, and has declared herself tough on corruption. Only time will tell if this will be able to continue and, perhaps, intensify Tanzania's growing anti-corruption efforts.

 

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>I was born to an impoverished family in Antsirabe. One dominated by clan politics and petty misgivings about this or that. My mother often came to me in the night when I was a child, from her compound to hold me tightly and say everything was going to be OK; I did not know what she meant by this “OK”. There was nothing wrong in my life; my father was a successful farmer, my mother a caring, strong woman, so what could have possibly gone wrong?
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>The waters were not fully risen at this point, but I found it incredibly odd in my later years living with my mother and father how many wanderers of different groups and creeds came shambling by our compound, hungry, thirsty… Starving… We helped as many as my father was willing to help, but we all knew that we had little in expendable resources. My father was wealthy for a rural villager, but not as a man who could provide food and clean water to whoever bagged for it.
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>Education was never in my vocabulary until a bus had come to bring me to Antananarivo, where my mother said I would live better. My young mind didn’t understand what she meant by this, things were fine in our compound, I was an only child, and my parents cared deeply for me, why would I need to leave? I wanted to continue my fathers legacy, be it small and insignificant. Before I stepped on the bus near the village market my father patted me on the shoulder and said that I needed to do good in the world, my mother did the same, but she was much more emotional about the whole ordeal.
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>In Antananarivo, my social life developed quickly. I had been introverted as a child, I do not know why; my mother and father never limited me in my life ever. I made many friends in the city, some of whom would remain my best compatriots until their deaths.
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>I worked around for a long time; a tea shop here, a contractors guild there. It was all good and fine, nothing to complain about, but nothing incredibly interesting. I had already learned the values of hard work when my father had put me on plow duty during seeding season. I may not have been the hardest worker, but I made money and was happy.
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>Eventually, I believe it was in the two-thousands, my good friends who I had known for almost ten years now had told me about how they were planning a protest against the government. I was never interested in politics up to this point, why should I be? I was Merina, everything was fine for the Merina. But, I kne

To our dearest friends in the EAC,

The unity in our countries is needed for the success of our nations. With recent projects in the DRC, Rwanda, and Tanzania, the beginnings of a true railway connect all of the countries in the EAC have begun to form. With such a large-scale project, our countries could be more perfectly linked. Therefore we propose three new railway projects to affirm this plan.

1. Kigali - Kampala - Nairobi would be a railway to link three of the Northern capitals of the EAC to each other and would be of great benefit to each of those three nations.

2. Mombasa - Arusha - Dar-es-Salaam, connecting the two ports of Tanzania and Kenya would be a great business connection between Kenya and Tanzania and allow for easier transfers of equipment and resources between these two ports.

3. Kigali - Bujumbura would link the rest of these railways to Burundi and be essential for Burundi to strengthen its ties between all of the other EAC countries.

All of these railways would use standard gauge railways if approved for building and would be of great benefit to everyone involved. Please consider this proposal.

Signed, President of Tanzania

The title says it all. My girlfriend is in Dodoma but she is struggling to find a bank which converts TZS into KES.

Any recommendations?

To our dearest friends in Kigali and Kinshasa,

The Tanzanian government would like to express an opportunity for our three countries to continue to build bonds between one another. The Dar-al-Salaam to Kigali railway has always been a wish for the Tanzanian government, and with a railway built from Kigali to the border town of Keza, which would then link with the rest of the Tanzanian railway system. This proposal would be mutually beneficial, especially considering that the Kigali railway could then be linked to Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which would open up large trade opportunities for our three countries. That is why we ask both Rwanda and the DRC to consider assisting the Tanzanian government in building these new standard gauge railways so that us African countries can further our development on the continent and prosper as countries.

The Tanzanian Government will be building an "industrial corridor" between Tanzania's Capital of Dodoma and It's main port of Dar es Saleem. Existing roads and railway lines in the areas between the two cities will be fixed up, and various factories will be constructed, including a vehicle factory in Dar es Saleem and an electronics factory in Dodoma.

This project is expected to be completed by either late 2020 or early 2021. It is expected to bring more jobs to Tanzania, as construction workers will be needed to make the corridor. Jobs will also be created after the corridor is finished, as the factories and stores in those areas will need workers.

We would be interested in acquiring production rights to certain pieces of South African made equipment, something which was discussed with the past governments but never fully talked about.

We would mainly like to acquire the rights to the artillery pieces as well as the aircraft, but we would also like to gain access to other things such as the MBTs, APCs, and other pieces of equipment.

A request to China has been made. Dodoma National University, being build since 2021, has been finished. With 2 billion dollars spent on the construction, it is a truly world class facility. But it needs teachers. And seeing how China and Tanzania have a history of working together, Tanzania sees no better choice for DNC than Chinese professors.

[M]I’m asking for Chinese medical and Engineering professors.[M]

Greetings President Xi Jinping,

We wish to speak with you today about the future of our nation and the role China could play in it. China's involvement with Tanzania goes back to the 1960's. We have purchased military equipment from you over the years, and in the 1970's you granted us a generous aid package allowing the construction of the TAZARA Railway. Recently, we have sought your expertise in the construction of trunk roads to help being transportation to the far flung and remote parts of our nation.

It is with this spirit in mind that we wish to further improve our relationship with you. Tanzania will be embarking on an ambitious development project very soon that will improve the reliability of our electrical grid nationwide, and improve our road systems as an initial project. We do this to lay the groundwork for industrialization in our country.

We seek Chinese expertise and assistance in the following areas alongside our civil engineers so we may learn from your world-class ability:

• The design, implementation, and maintenance of a modern electrical grid throughout the country. Our current grid is old, and unreliable. In order to foster industrialization we will need a reliable grid.

• The subsidized purchase of road construction equipment and Chinese expertise in the construction of roads and bridges. We have a rapidly growing highway system of trunk roads throughout the country, and we wish to complete it as soon as possible.

• Improvements to our mineral mines throughout the country, in the form of mining equipment, efficient processes, and expertise in modern methods.

• Agricultural improvements, including the subsidized purchase of farming equipment and training for our farmers. We have fertile land and yet have issues with starvation. Hopefully a greater abundance of food production will alleviate these problems.

• We will also invest in the University of Dar es Salaam, and would like to invite Chinese professors of science, engineering, and mathematics to our largest and most important university to help spread knowledge.

• Finally, on a more somber note, our military equipment is aging, and we are looking to begin a slow modernization of our equipment and military in general. Chinese equipment and training will be greatly desired as we look to improve the defensive capabilities of our nation within our budget.

We understand that this is an ambitious set of goals we have laid out. These will not be completed overnight as

Hello,

The National Defence Force of Burundi is willing to help with conflict looming. We will assist in your War Efforts. We have 20,000 Army Personnel and 31,000 Paramillitary total,and Equipment that may be of use. Millitary Spending will go to 5% of our GDP, our planned overseas Investments cannot be made except for the Nicaraguan Canal. We plan to Double our Millitary within the next 2 years, with new recruit numbers growig as part of Burundis rise.We cannot deplete our Millitary, but we cannot let the Congos control the region. Consider us an Ally.