With effect from 1st October, 2007Tanzania National Parks started using electronic payment systems at its revenue collection centres in parallel run with the old system. Phase I of this system has covered Serengeti, Lake Manyara, Tarangire, Kilimanjaro and Arusha National Parks through CRDB and EXIM Banks who designed the systems.
The number of women involved in drug related offences is increasing in Senegal, according to the chief of Senegal's anti-narcotic body.
''Currently, many Senegalese women engage in drug trafficking between Brazil and Senegal. There are signs that they are involved in the trafficking of cocaine,” Commissioner Abdoulaye Niang, Head of the Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs (OCRTIS), said on Saturday, on the sidelines of a ceremony witnessing the destruction of over 3 tons of drugs seized during the last wave of campaign against the scourge.
According to Niang, the number of women arrested for smuggling drug during the course of last year totalled twelve: ten South African, one German and one from the Netherlands.''
The commissioner also pointed at an increase in consumers of marijuana, revealing that 1600 and 3000 consumers and traffickers respectively were arrested in the region of Dakar alone last year.
''This number,” he said, “is impressive compared to last year, despite a decrease in consumption of cocaine and heroin.''
Senegal neighbours Guinea Bissau, a country at the middle of heightened concern over international drug trafficking.
According to Niang, the number of women arrested for smuggling drug during the course of last year totalled twelve: ten South African, one German and one from the Netherlands.''
The commissioner also pointed at an increase in consumers of marijuana, revealing that 1600 and 3000 consumers and traffickers respectively were arrested in the region of Dakar alone last year.
''This number,” he said, “is impressive compared to last year, despite a decrease in consumption of cocaine and heroin.''
Senegal neighbours Guinea Bissau, a country at the middle of heightened concern over international drug trafficking.
President of the Republic of Tanzania, His Excellence, Dr. Jakaya Kikwete, said there are several investment opportunities in Tanzania which awaits eligible businessmen to invest. 
All 45 members of the group of celebrities and professionals who are in the campaign on the Global Clean Water Crisis – Summit on the Summit made it to the top of the African highest Mountain – Kilimanjaro.
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