Space
Program of Tanzania
------The Tanzanian Space Agency------
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Level = 0 Development: Very Low
What has been going on in Tanzania?
What kind of space power do they have?
Does Tanzania have space weapons?
What are they planning over there? |
Population: 39,000,000 / Language: Swahili / GDP: $700 / Cities: Dar es Salaam
OVERVIEW
Tanzania has been spared the internal strife that has blighted many African states. Though it remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with many of its people living below the World Bank poverty line, it has had some success in wooing donors and investors. Tanzania assumed its present form in 1964 after a merger between the mainland Tanganyika and the island of Zanzibar, which had become independent the previous year. Unlike many African countries, whose potential wealth contrasted with their actual poverty, Tanzania had few exportable minerals and a primitive agricultural system.
To remedy this, its first president, Julius Nyerere, issued the 1967 Arusha Declaration, which called for self-reliance through the creation of cooperative farm villages and the nationalisation of factories, plantations, banks and private companies. But a decade later, despite financial and technical aid from the World Bank and sympathetic countries, this programme had completely failed due to inefficiency, corruption, resistance from peasants and the rise in the price of imported petroleum. Tanzania's economic woes were compounded in 1979 and 1981 by a costly military intervention to overthrow President Idi Amin of Uganda. After Mr Nyerere's resignation in 1985, his successor, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, attempted to raise productivity and attract foreign investment and loans by dismantling government control of the economy. This policy continued under Benjamin Mkapa, who was elected president in 1995. The economy has grown, though at the price of painful fiscal reforms. Tourism is an important revenue earner; Tanzania's attractions include Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, and wildlife-rich national parks such as the Serengeti. The political union between Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania has weathered more than four decades of change. Zanzibar has its own parliament and president. Full name: United Republic of Tanzania
President: Jakaya Kikwete Ruling party candidate Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania's long-serving foreign minister, won presidential elections in December 2005.
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Tanzania's Space Infrastructure Tanzania is one of the world's poorest countries, and its space program is not suprisingly, nonexistent. Not only does it not have an agency, but also no infrastructure in which one would arise. The Dar es Salaam based University of Tanzania has no space related educational architecture, lacking astrophysics and astronautics, favoring instead a focus on medicine and agriculture. The government has no ministry devoted to science of this type. Tanzania has no history of being part of any organization dealing with space, nor has any launch capability. Tanzania lacks the industrial base, the educational base and the political foundation for a process like this to occur within it. It has no functioning university with an astrophysics or astronautics program, and nonexistant industry. Tanzania operates no satellites and, not having an orbital presence, has no space power. The government of Tanzania in Lilongwe has no plans for attempting to further any ambition in space development or research. |
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Timeline of Events in Tanzania ...From the Past to the Future 1498 - Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Tanzanian coast. Tanzania is home to Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak
1699 - Portuguese ousted from Zanzibar by Omani Arabs. 1884 - German Colonisation Society begins to acquire territory on the mainland. 1886 - Britain and Germany sign an agreement allowing Germany to set up a sphere of influence over mainland Tanzania, except for a narrow piece of territory along the coast which stays under the authority of the sultan of Zanzibar, while Britain enjoys a protectorate over Zanzibar. 1905-06 - Indigenous Maji Maji revolt suppressed by German troops. British rule 1916 - British, Belgian and South African troops occupy most of German East Africa. 1919 - League of Nations gives Britain a mandate over Tanganyika - today's mainland Tanzania. 1929 - Tanganyika African Association founded. 1946 - United Nations converts British mandate over Tanganyika into a trusteeship. 1954 - Julius Nyerere and Oscar Kambona transform the Tanganyika African Association into the Tanganyika African National Union. Independence 1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent with Julius Nyerere as prime minister. 1962 - Tanganyika becomes a republic with Nyerere as president. 1963 - Zanzibar becomes independent. 1964 - Sultanate of Zanzibar overthrown by Afro-Shirazi Party in a violent, left-wing revolution; Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to become Tanzania, with Nyerere as president and the head of the Zanzibar government and leader of the Afro-Shirazi Party, Abeid Amani Karume, as vice-president. 1967 - Nyerere issues the Arusha Declaration, which calls for egalitarianism, socialism and self-reliance. 1977 - The Tanganyika African National Union and Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi Party merge to become the Party of the Revolution, which is proclaimed as the only legal party. 1978 - Ugandans temporarily occupy a piece of Tanzanian territory. 1979 - Tanzanian forces invade Uganda, occupying the capital, Kampala, and help to oust President Idi Amin. Multi-party politics 1985 - Nyerere retires and is replaced by the president of Zanzibar, Ali Mwinyi. Tanzania's exports pass through Dar es Salaam's port
1992 - Constitution amended to allow multi-party politics. 1995 - Benjamin Mkapa chosen as president in Tanzania's first multi-party election. 1999 October - Julius Nyerere dies. 2000 - Mkapa elected for a second term, winning 72% of the vote. 2001 26 January - Tanzanian police shoot dead two people in Zanzibar while raiding the offices in Zanzibar town of the Civic United Front (CUF) party. CUF chairman Ibrahim Lipumba charged with unlawful assembly and disturbing the peace. Zanzibar violence 2001 27-28 January - At least 31 people are killed and another 100 arrested in Zanzibar in protests against the government's banning of opposition rallies calling for fresh elections; Tanzanian government sends in troop reinforcements. Semi-autonomous Zanzibar saw revolution in 1964 2001 March - Tanzanian governing party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), and main opposition in Zanzibar, CUF, agree to form joint committee to restore calm and to encourage return of refugees from Kenya. 2001 April - Tens of thousands of opposition supporters march through the commercial capital, Dar-es-Salaam, in the first major joint demonstration by opposition parties in decades. 2001 July - Huge new gold mine, Bulyanhulu, opens near northern town of Mwanza, making Tanzania Africa's third largest producer of gold. 2001 November - Presidents of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya launch regional parliament and court of justice in Arusha to legislate on matters of common interest such as trade and immigration. 2001 December - Britain approves controversial deal to sell military air traffic control system to Tanzania. Critics say it is a waste of money. 2002 June - Nearly 300 killed in Tanzania's worst train disaster after passenger train loses power and rolls into freight train at high speed. 2002 August - Opposition criticises president for ordering presidential jet costing $21m (£14m). 2005 March-April - Political violence in semi-autonomous Zanzibar ahead of voter registration for October poll. 2005 October - Governing CCM wins Zanzibar elections. 2005 December - Jakaya Kikwete, foreign minister and ruling CCM candidate, wins presidential elections. He replaces Benjamin Mkapa, who retires after a decade at the helm. 2006 April - High Court outlaws traditional practice of entertaining candidates during elections. Critics of "Takrima" - the giving of tips - said it encouraged corruption. 2006 June - Visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, on his seven-nation African tour to secure energy deals and strengthen economic ties, signs agreements to help Tanzania's health, transport and communications sectors. |
TODAY AND INTO THE FUTURE
Nothing Planned
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