Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.

When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes – equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
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Children Day Each Equivalent Poverty
I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country’s economy by then was in bad shape.
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Character Country Economic Sport Sports
The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness.
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Brotherhood Decision Ideas
Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.
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Among During Economy Highly Revitalising Setting Sport
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.
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Action Men Poverty
We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough.
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Circumstances Economic Enough Integration Regional

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