Dar es Salaam, Nov. 2 -- PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has directed formation of a national taskforce comprising stakeholders from both the public and private sector, to review existing policies and devise a 10-year roadmap that will steer the country towards clean and sustainable cooking energy.

Speaking during the official launching of the two-day Clean Cooking Conference which started in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, Ms Samia further instructed that the taskforce should be chaired by the Prime Minister and coordinated by the Ministry of Energy.

Ms Samia expressed concerns that only a handful of Tanzanians use clean cooking energy with statistics showing that five per cent use Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), three per cent use electricity,...