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Mwanza

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Mwanza (mwän`zä), city (1994 est. pop. 260,000), capital of Mwanza prov., NW Tanzania, a port on Lake Victoria. Connected by rail with Dar-es-Salaam, the city handles much of Tanzania's trade with Kenya and Uganda, with which it is connected by boat. Industries include meatpacking, fishing, and the manufacture of textiles and soap. There is an institute for research in tropical diseases.
Mwanza 

a city in Tanzania, the administrative center of Mwanza Region. Population, 34,900 (1967). Mwanza is a port on Lake Victoria. It is linked by railroad with the ports of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean and Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika. An airport is located there. Freight being sent to ports in Uganda and Kenya is transferred in Mwanza. It is the center of an agricultural region (coffee, tobacco, cattle).



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Chris and I flew to Mwanza - the nearest mainland town to Ukerewe - to see whether we could get the lorry released.
Mrs Joseph travelled for 17 hours by bus to the specialist clinic from the Mwanza region, leaving her four-year-old daughter at home with her husband.
The chairman of the Tanzania Albino Society in the Mwanza region said the men were arrested but a court later let them off, arguing that it could not be established whether they were guilty of abuse.
 
 
 
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