{"id":13882,"date":"2012-08-25T03:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/tanzania-suspends-port-chiefs-over-cargo-theft-allegations\/"},"modified":"2012-08-25T03:10:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T01:10:50","slug":"tanzania-suspends-port-chiefs-over-cargo-theft-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tanzania-suspends-port-chiefs-over-cargo-theft-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania suspends port chiefs over cargo theft allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Authorities investigate theft charges at main port<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Government trying to crack down on corruption<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Country losing traffic to rival ports in region<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Fumbuka Ng&#8217;wanakilala<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Tanzania has suspended the<br \/>\nhead of its ports authority and six other senior port officials<br \/>\nover allegations of cargo theft and embezzlement of public<br \/>\nfunds, the transport ministry and local media said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government is struggling to crack down on corruption in<br \/>\nministries and state institutions, with the public losing<br \/>\npatience at the slow pace of change.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investors have long complained of graft as one of the main<br \/>\nreasons for the high cost of doing business in east Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nsecond-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tanzania&#8217;s main port, in the commercial capital Dar es<br \/>\nSalaam, which serves six landlocked countries, has often been<br \/>\ndogged by allegations of inefficiency and corruption.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It has been losing its market share of international cargo<br \/>\nto other ports in the region like Kenya&#8217;s Mombasa and<br \/>\nMozambique&#8217;s Beira ports, the transport ministry says.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Authorities investigate theft charges at main port * Government trying to crack down on corruption * Country losing traffic to rival ports in region By Fumbuka Ng&#8217;wanakilala DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Tanzania has suspended the head of its ports authority and six other senior port officials over allegations of cargo theft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}