FORESIGHT: Livestock traders wait for customers at a cattles auction market in Mtamaa Village in Singida Municipality on Monday. Due to inadquate rainfall in the 2017 season, most pastrolists have are selling their animals ahead of an anticipated long disatrous drought. PHOTO | GASPER ANDREW

ECONOMY: US Vice President Mike Pence (left) is welcomed by Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso before a joint press conference in Tokyo yesterday. PHOTO|AFP

A trader at Mwenge market in Dar es Salaam, Mr Yohana Mponda, displays rooster to potential customers yesterday. Mr Mponda was selling chickens for between Sh15,000 to Sh20,000, depending on size.  He, however, complained that business was slow despite Easter festivities.  PHOTO | ERICKY BONIPHACE

Lindi Municipality residents attend a public meeting addressed by area MP Hassan Kaunje on Saturday.  They asked the lawmaker to press the government to repair roads and other infrastructure in the town.  PHOTO | MWANJA IBADI

Bishop Josephat Gwajima of the Glory of Christ Tanzania Church (GCTC) blesses his congregation during Easter Sunday Mass  in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Christians in Tanzanians joined their brethren the world over in marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  PHOTO | SALIM SHAO

EASTER: President John Magufuli with the Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Polycarp Cardinal Pengo, during Easter Sunday Mass at St Peter’s Church in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO | STATE HOUSE

TOURISM: Tourists observe hippos at Serengeti National Park yesterday. The world-famous park registered an upsurge in the number of visitors over the weekend. PHOTO | ANTHONY MAYUNGA

Morogoro Field Force Unit officers pay last respects to their fallen colleagues at municipality’s police barracks yesterday. The remains of the eight officers, who were killed on the line of duty by unknown assailants at Jaribu Village, Rufiji District last Thursday, were transported, each to the departed officer’s respective  region, for burial. PHOTO | JUMA MTANDA