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2012/13 budget set to focus on Public Private Partnership 
The government is putting final touches to its budget for the financial year 2012/2013, which it says will focus on promoting Public Private Partnership (PPP) to fast track the country’s economic growth. “The other priorities will also aim at boosting the economy and support the private sector,” Finance minister Dr William Mgimwa said in Dar es Salaam yesterday when briefing journalists on the forthcoming Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and Africa Development Fund (ADF) board annual general meeting slated for Arusha from May 28 to June 1, this year.Tanesco to cover its wires to protect lives 
Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) plans to insulate its power cables that carry between 200 and 420 volts to protect people and the environment, it has been revealed. Tanesco Managing Director, William Mhando, admitted in a telephone interview yesterday that there were some cables that have not been insulated but that these contained low voltage. A survey conducted by this paper observed that most electric wires around the city and other towns were not insulated. According to Mhando these are supposed to be covered properly to protect the lives of people and the environment.MP presses for more investment in health 
Special Seats lawmaker Dr Mary Mwanjelwa has stressed the importance of a multi-sectorial approach to development planning to ensure real investment in the area of reproductive health and family planning. She said this when opening a seminar for journalists from local and international media houses on reproductive health, family planning and HIV/Aids integration in Dar es Salaam yesterday. She said Tanzania, like other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, was grappling with a low contraceptive prevalence rate, currently at 27 per cent of all married women, compared to the national target of 60 per cent by 2015Ban Ki-moon says Al-Qaeda behind Damascus bombings 
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that Islamist militants from al-Qaeda must be behind two deadly suicide car bomb attacks in Syria last week Fifty-five people were killed and 372 were wounded when two car bombers blew themselves up in the capital Damascus on 10 May It was the deadliest attack on the city since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad started last year.Facebook share trading debut approaches 
Facebook shares will start trading in New York later in one of the most high-profile share sales of recent years Founder Mark Zuckerberg officially opened the day's trading on the Nasdaq exchange, although trading in Facebook shares will not start until later He appeared via video link from a celebration at the social network's headquarters in California.
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