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.
Over 200 people are reported to have been killed with more than 100 wounded in a fuel tanker explosion in eastern Congo in the night of last Friday.
Many of the victims are said to have rushed to siphon leaking liquid from the vehicle illegally.
The truck was reported to be transporting fuel when it overturned at high speed near the village of Sange, around 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of the town of Uvira near the Burundi border. Sange is located between Uvira and the Congolese provincial capital, Bukavu, further to the north.
A spokesman of the UN peacekeeping mission is quoted as saying after the accident "people came out and tried to siphon the contents of the tanker."
"A fire started, and the people trying to siphon the fuel were killed or injured. Right now, we are talking about 220 dead and 111 wounded, but this is not the final toll. This is a very fluid situation," Mounoubai said.
Mounoubai said a dozen homes in the vicinity had also been destroyed in the blaze as most people in the area live in thatched huts made of dried leaves and hardened mud.
Reports say U.N. helicopter has so far evacuated 35 wounded to Bukavu. Other peacekeepers were taking more wounded to nearby hospitals by ambulance.
Desire Yuma, a local Red Cross official in Bukavu, is also quoted as saying Red Cross workers were still collecting charred bodies from the scene.
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion.
The U.N.'s acting special representative to Congo, Leila Zerrougui, is said to have expressed condolences for the tragedy and said the U.N. "will do everything possible to help authorities and assist victims."
Desperately poor people across Africa often descend quickly around damaged or disabled oil trucks leaking fuel on roads and highways, carting it away with plastic jugs, unaware of the danger of doing so.
The truck was reported to be transporting fuel when it overturned at high speed near the village of Sange, around 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of the town of Uvira near the Burundi border. Sange is located between Uvira and the Congolese provincial capital, Bukavu, further to the north.
A spokesman of the UN peacekeeping mission is quoted as saying after the accident "people came out and tried to siphon the contents of the tanker."
"A fire started, and the people trying to siphon the fuel were killed or injured. Right now, we are talking about 220 dead and 111 wounded, but this is not the final toll. This is a very fluid situation," Mounoubai said.
Mounoubai said a dozen homes in the vicinity had also been destroyed in the blaze as most people in the area live in thatched huts made of dried leaves and hardened mud.
Reports say U.N. helicopter has so far evacuated 35 wounded to Bukavu. Other peacekeepers were taking more wounded to nearby hospitals by ambulance.
Desire Yuma, a local Red Cross official in Bukavu, is also quoted as saying Red Cross workers were still collecting charred bodies from the scene.
It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion.
The U.N.'s acting special representative to Congo, Leila Zerrougui, is said to have expressed condolences for the tragedy and said the U.N. "will do everything possible to help authorities and assist victims."
Desperately poor people across Africa often descend quickly around damaged or disabled oil trucks leaking fuel on roads and highways, carting it away with plastic jugs, unaware of the danger of doing so.
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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