Tanzania

The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) says a fault on an underground 132-kilovolt transmission line is behind unreliable power in southern Dar es Salaam, Mwananchi reported. The fault struck at Gongo la Mboto on Tuesday, November 3. It has disrupted supply in Mbagala, Kigamboni, Mkuranga and Kibiti. Irene Gowelle, Tanesco's director of communications and customer service, briefed reporters on Thursday. She said the fault hit the underground cable that carries power from the Gongo la Mboto station to the Mbagala and Dege substations. Because it came suddenly, the utility could not warn customers in advance. As an emergency measure, Tanesco switched customers to another line to keep power flowing. That backup line is the problem, according to Zakaria Mgalama, Tanesco's deputy managing director for transmission. He said it has less capacity than the damaged line. As a result, some areas face load cuts when demand peaks, mainly during the day. At night, demand drops and all customers get power back. Mgalama said technicians are still working on the…

Tanzania presented its human rights record to the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday, Mwananchi reported. Constitution and Legal Affairs Minister Abdallah Ulega led the presentation. He spoke at the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), run by the UN Human Rights Council. The government said 7.9 million citizens had received legal aid. Courts on the mainland had cut their case backlog from about 10% to 5%, the government said. The average time to finish a case dropped from 95 days to 66. In Zanzibar, the backlog fell from 43% to 18%, according to the presentation. Technology was another focus. The government said digital courts and online hearings had concluded more than 170,000 cases. It said 66 prisons are now linked to the courts online. That makes court services easier to reach for prisoners and remand detainees. On democracy, the government pointed to national talks with political parties. A task force on…