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Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa issued the directive on Tuesday evening in his one-day official visit in the district. 
The premier also visited Milkom dairy plant and Watercom, a water processing plant.
“The minister should ensure that the area gets reliable power so that available industries can operate smoothly. This will also help ordinary people benefit from availability of power in the area,” he said.
He expressed satisfaction with efforts by investors in the area which complements the current government’s ambitions of industrialising the country to become a middle income nation by 2025.
The industry’s spokesperson, Aboubakar Faraj cited lack of reliable power as one of the serious challenges, which increases production costs. 
“Whenever there is a power blackout, we use generators which adds to operation costs. That’s why we appeal to the government to supply reliable power,” he said, citing also poor road infrastructure as another challenge stymieing production.
He said that so far the two factories have employed about 1,800 people and if power will remain stable and the road will be improved, employment opportunities will go up by 25 per cent come 2018.
Earlier, Majaliwa officially launched a maternity ward at Kisarawe dispensary which has been built with financial support from Oilcom.

'Zanzibar to initiate campaign to restore ‘malaria-free’ status'
The cost-effective intervention strategy to be deployed will involve Indoor-Residual Spraying (IRS) to reduce prevalence reported to have now reached one per cent, Isles’ malaria control project manager Abdullah Ally told The Guardian on Tuesday.
He said the target is to reduce and finally eliminate malaria-related burdens that are starting to re-appear in Isles health facilities.
According to Ally, apart from IRS, the campaign will also involve arteminism-based combination therapies, and environment cleaning to control mosquitoes breeding.
The targeting of mosquitoes will be conducted concurrently with testing and treatment of patients that report mosquito-related cases, he explained, adding: 
“We will strive to reclaim our previous position as a malaria-free zone in this part of the world where the disease is a major burden for national economies.”
He said after the campaign, the Isles government will have the responsibility of ensuring the successes recorded are not derailed once again.
Ally noted that the previous designation as a malaria-free zone had helped bring prestige to Zanzibar and boosted an Isles economy largely reliant on tourism.
He said while the prevalence of malaria in Tanzania Mainland continued to hover at around 14 per cent, in Zanzibar it dropped at one point to less than 1 per cent, the best control-rate in the whole of East Africa.
According to Ally, the 2nd Global Malaria Action Plan (GMP2) had shown that in 2004-05, just 23 per cent of Tanzanian households had insecticide-treated mosquito nests, compared to 64 per cent of households in 2010.
Furthermore, there was still evidence of increased seasonal transmission in some foci (hot spots) every day, along with evidence of some localised outbreak in 2010, he added.
Malaria in Zanzibar had been brought so under control that the country even entered a pre-elimination phase, only to start spreading again due to various circumstances, Ally said.
The World Malaria Report released in 2015 showed that 57 of the 106 countries with malaria in 2000 had achieved reductions in new malaria cases of at least 75 per cent by that year.
In that same time-frame, 18 countries reduced their malaria cases by 50-75 per cent, the report said.
Across sub-Saharan Africa, the prevention of new cases of malaria has resulted in major cost savings for endemic countries.
New estimates presented in the WHO report show that reductions in malaria cases attributable to malaria control activities saved an estimated $900 million in case management costs in the region between 2001- 2014.
Insecticide-treated mosquito nets contributed the largest savings, followed by artemisinin-based combination therapies and indoor residual spraying.
“Since the start of this century, investments in malaria prevention and treatment have averted over 6 million deaths,” said WHO director general Dr Margaret Chan.
“We know what works. The challenge now is to do even more,” Dr Chan added.