RETIRED President Mr Benjamin Mkapa (left) is welcomed home by CCM Secretary General, Mr Wilson Mukama,after his arrival at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. He was in South Africa where he attended the centenary celebrations of the African National Congress. Centre is former First Lady, Anna Mkapa.
(Photo by a Correspondent)

President Jakaya Kikwete (centre, front row) in a souvenir group photo
with envoys accredited to Tanzania.The president hosted a sherry party in
their honour at the State House in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. (Photo by the
State House)

Zanzibar President Dr Ali Mohammed Shein (second left) listens to Haji Simba (left), an artist from Zan Artist Group of Hurumzi Urban on Tuesday. The artist explained that the group drew the president’s picture, showing him picking cloves. The project took two months to accomplish. Right is Simai Mohamed, the coordinator of the project. (Photo by Ramadhan Othman)

The Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner, Sadik Meck Sadick (right), shakes hands with the Ophir Energy Government Relations Manager, Fidelis Lekule, as the company handed over 30 water tanks worth over 18m/- to assist Dar es Salaam flood victims. The handover ceremony took place at Mabwe Pande area in Dar es Salaam on Monday. Second left is the Company’s Financial Controller, Kate Methley and Imran Khan (left), an accountant. (Photo by a
Correspondent).

RESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete talks to the Gambian Minister for Fisheries, Natural Resources and Parliamentary Affairs, who also doubles as President Yahya Jammeh’s Special Envoy, Mr Lamin Kaba (left), at State House in Dar es Salaam on Monday. (Photo by State House)

DAY ONE IN SCHOOL: Standard One pupils at Bunge Primary School arrange their desks ready to begin
lessons on their first day of a long ‘education journey,’ as captured along Shaaban Robert Street in Dar es
Salaam on Monday. (Photo by Mohamed Mambo)

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Director General, Dr Ramadhani Dau (second left) is all smiles as
he exchanges documents for the construction of Kigamboni Bridge in Dar es Salaam on Monday, after signing
a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Executive Director of the China Railway Construction
Engineering Group, Mr Shi Yuan (right). Witnessing the occasion are: Minister for Works Dr John Magufuli
(centre), Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner (RC) Mr Saidi Meck Sadiki (third right) and Minister for
Labour and Employment, Ms Gaudensia Kabaka (second right). (Photo by Yusuf Badi)

Retailers of second-hand clothes, ‘mitumba’ , wait for customers at Ilala Mchikichini in Dar es Salaam on Monday. The secondhand cloth business apart from earning income to some families, allows many people with limited income to afford decent clothing.
(Photo by Mohamed Mambo)

A blind person (in red shirt) and his aide cross the road at Manzese area in Dar es Salaam on Sunday, while raising up a white cane to enable drivers to notice him easily. (Photo by Mohamed Mambo)

Flood victims rest after  their arrival a new camp located at former Dairy Milk premises at Ubungo in Dar es Salaam over the weekend. The government has temporarily relocated the victims to JKT Mgulani, JKT Mbweni and Ubungo Maziwa before moving them to their permanent settlements at Mabwe Pande area within the next two weeks. (Photo by Fadhili Akida)