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Dar wants radar money sent only to government.
A controversy is likely to mar the handling of compensation arising from the controversial purchase of the $40 million (over Sh50 billion) military radar in 2002. While UK�s largest arms seller, BAE Systems, has admitted to financial impropriety in the radar deal and has agreed to compensate Tanzania, Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister Bernard Membe, yesterday strongly objected to the company�s suggested means of compensation.
In a thinly-veiled warning, Mr Membe said the government would not accept that BAE pay the compensation to any organisation other that the government.

Kikwete calls on Ambassadors to find solutions to African poverty.
President Jakaya Kikwete has asked African Ambassadors who work in foreign countries to concentrate on finding solutions of poverty that faces their mother countries in Africa. Mr Kikwete, who is visiting Turkey for three days, advised the Ambassadors to learn, generate ideas and use every opportunity that arises in countries where they represent their governments. President Kikwete was addressing 11 Ambassadors from Africa in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara. According to President Kikwete, Ambassadors were responsible for searching market and investors from abroad to invest in their countries in Africa.
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