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Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, the Glossary

Benjamin Mkapa Stadium also known as Tanzania National Main Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Miburani ward of Temeke District in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.^[1]

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Arusha Sports Stadium

The Arusha Sports Stadium, is a planned multi-purpose stadium in Tanzania. Benjamin Mkapa Stadium and Arusha Sports Stadium are Athletics (track and field) venues in Tanzania, football venues in Tanzania, multi-purpose stadiums in Tanzania and national stadiums.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Barbarian

A barbarian is a person or tribe of people that is perceived to be primitive, savage and warlike.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC Sport

BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.

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Beijing Construction Engineering Group

Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) is a Chinese construction and engineering firm that has built important structures in Beijing and infrastructures and buildings overseas through international branches, in particular, an active subsidiary in the United States, BCEGI-USA.

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Benjamin Mkapa

Benjamin William Mkapa (12 November 193824 July 2020) was the third president of Tanzania, in office from 1995 to 2005.

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The Brazil national football team (Seleção Brasileira de Futebol), nicknamed Seleção Canarinho ("Canary Squad", after their bright yellow jersey), represents Brazil in men's international football and is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body for football in Brazil.

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Bretton Woods system

The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries, and Australia and other countries, a total of 44 countries after the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement.

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China Central Television

China Central Television (CCTV) is the national television broadcaster of China, established in 1958.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Colosseum

The Colosseum (Colosseo) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum.

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Daily News (Tanzania)

The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Tanzania, the second-largest economy in the East African Community.

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Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam (from lit) is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania.

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Deborah Bräutigam

Deborah Bräutigam is an American political scientist, currently the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University and the Director of the China Africa Research Initiative at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

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Debt relief

Debt relief or debt cancellation is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Everton F.C.

Everton Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, England.

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A football pitch (also known as a soccer field in the United States) is the playing surface for the game of association football.

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Government of China

The government of the People's Republic of China is based on a system of people's congress within the parameters of a unitary communist state, in which the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacts its policies through people's congresses.

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Grant (money)

A grant is a financial award given by a government entity, foundation, corporation, or other organization to an individual or organization for a specific purpose.

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Heavily indebted poor countries

The heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) are a group of 39 developing countries with high levels of poverty and debt overhang.

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Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the president of China from 2003 to 2013, and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) from 2004 to 2012.

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International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.

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Invitation to tender

An invitation to tender (ITT, also known as a call for bids or a request for tenders) is a formal, structured procedure for generating competing offers from different potential suppliers or contractors looking to obtain an award of business activity in works, supply, or service contracts, often from companies who have been previously assessed for suitability by means of a supplier questionnaire (SQ) or pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ).

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Jakaya Kikwete

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (born 7 October 1950) is a Tanzanian politician who was the fourth president of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015.

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Juma Kapuya

Juma Athumani Kapuya (born 22 June 1945) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Urambo West constituency from 1995 to 2015.

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List of African stadiums by capacity

The following is a list of sports stadiums in Africa.

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List of stadiums in Tanzania

This is a list of sports stadiums in Tanzania, ranked in descending order of capacity.

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Lists of stadiums

The following are lists of stadiums throughout the world.

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Miburani

Miburani (Kata ya Miburani in Swahili) is an administrative ward in the Temeke district of the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania.

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The Mozambique national football team (Seleção Moçambicana de Futebol) represents Mozambique in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Mozambican Football Federation, the governing body for football in Mozambique.

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Multi-purpose stadium

A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Politics of Tanzania

The politics of Tanzania takes place in a framework of a unitary presidential democratic republic, whereby the President of Tanzania is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Sevilla FC

Sevilla Fútbol Club is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.

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Simba S.C.

Simba Sports Club is a professional football club based in Kariakoo ward in Ilala Districtof Dar es Salaam Region in Tanzania.

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Stadium diplomacy

Stadium diplomacy is a form of subsidy practiced by a nation through building and financing the construction of stadiums and sports facilities.

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State of the art

The state of the art (SOTA or SoTA, sometimes cutting edge, leading edge, or bleeding edge) refers to the highest level of general development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field achieved at a particular time.

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State visit

A state visit is a formal visit by a head of state (or representative of a head of state) to a foreign country, at the invitation of the head of state (or representative) of that foreign country, with the latter also acting as the official host for the duration of the state visit.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF; Shirikisho la Mpira wa Miguu Tanzania) previously the Football Association of Tanzania, is the governing body of football in Tanzania.

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The Tanzania national football team (Timu ya Taifa ya Mpira wa Miguu ya Tanzania) represents Tanzania in men's international football and is controlled by the Tanzania Football Federation, the governing body for football in Tanzania, Tanzania's home ground is Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar es Salaam and their head coach is Adel Amrouche from Algeria.

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Tanzanian Premier League

The Tanzania Mainland Premier League is a top-level Tanzanian professional football league, governed by the Tanzania Football Federation.

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Tanzanian shilling

The shilling (Swahili: shilingi; abbreviation: TSh; code: TZS) is the currency of Tanzania.

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Temeke District, Dar es Salaam

Temeke District, officially the Temeke Municipal Council (Halimashauri ya Manispaa ya Temeke, in Swahili) is one of five districts of the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania.

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Uhuru Stadium

Uhuru Stadium (formerly known as the Tanzania National Stadium) (Uwanja wa Uhuru in Swahili) is adjacent to the National Stadium in Miburani ward of Temeke District in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Benjamin Mkapa Stadium and Uhuru Stadium are buildings and structures in Dar es Salaam, football venues in Tanzania and sport in Dar es Salaam.

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Very important person

A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank, status, influence, or importance.

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Vinci SA

Vinci (corporately styled VINCI) is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d'Entreprises.

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Wen Jiabao

Wen Jiabao (p; born 15 September 1942) is a Chinese retired politician who served as the premier of China from 2003 to 2013.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.

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Young Africans S.C.

Young Africans Sports Club (commonly referred as Yanga) is a Tanzanian professional football club based at Jangwani ward of Ilala District in Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania.

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2008 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition's sponsorship by MTN, was the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football tournament for nations affiliated with the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

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2008 Summer Olympics torch relay

The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream".

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2011 Dar es Salaam explosions

The 2011 Dar es Salaam explosions were a series of store ammunition explosions at an ammunition depot in Gongolamboto ward of Ilala District of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed 20–32 people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Mkapa_Stadium

Also known as Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium, National Main Stadium, National Stadium (Tanzania), Tanzania National Main Stadium, Tanzania National Stadium, Tanzanian National Stadium, Unwanja wa Taifa, William Mkapa Stadium.

, Vinci SA, Wen Jiabao, Xinhua News Agency, Young Africans S.C., 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, 2011 Dar es Salaam explosions.

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See also

2007 establishments in Tanzania

Athletics (track and field) venues in Tanzania

Buildings and structures in Dar es Salaam

China–Tanzania relations

Chinese aid to Africa

Football venues in Tanzania

Multi-purpose stadiums in Tanzania

Simba S.C.

Sport in Dar es Salaam

References