Tanzania’s health, agriculture sectors reap fortunes from TBPL products

KIBAHA: THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Dr Hashil Abdallah, has stated that the Tanzania Biotech Products Ltd (TBPL) factory has become a vital pillar in both the health and agriculture sectors by producing...

Dodoma women urged to join SACCOS, avoid exploitative loans

DODOMA: WOMEN in Dodoma Region have been urged to join savings and credit cooperative societies (Saccos) as a sustainable solution to access capital and avoid exploitative moneylenders, commonly known as ‘mikopo umiza or kausha damu’. The call was...

Tanzania, Venezuela agree to cooperate in trade, investment, tourism.

Home/Politics/Diplomacy/Tanzania, Venezuela agree to cooperate in trade, investment, tourism. KAMPALA: THE Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, Cosato Chumi, held talks with Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign...

Tanzania and AGRA champion data-driven approach to build climate-resilient agriculture

Dar es Salaam. The Government of Tanzania, in partnership with AGRA and Mathematica Global, has today, Thursday, October 16, 2025 launched a Climate Vulnerability Assessment Validation Workshop aimed at advancing data-driven climate resilience in...

Mapping Uganda’s climate future

Dan Bunter, a consultant from EDI Global presents findings on Uganda’s climate vulnerability mapping and climate change risk analysis during a national validation workshop held Oct.22-23 in Entebbe. COURTESY PHOTO/AGRA. Why climate vulnerability...

Tanzania urges NAM members to uphold solidarity

KAMPALA: TANZANIA has the Non-Aligned Movement’s member countries to uphold solidarity and unity in international discussions, especially when defending the interests of developing nations. The call was made by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs...

Hope for Rufiji as Samia pledges permanent solution to floods, economic revival

Ikwiriri. CCM presidential candidate, Samia Suluhu Hassan has pledged to end the recurring floods that have been destroying homes, washing away farms, and crippling livelihoods in Rufiji Valley. For decades, the Rufiji Valley has been a symbol of...

Tanzania strikes natural gas in its southern regions

MTWARA: TANZANIA said it has discovered a rich deposit of natural gas in two villages located in Mtwara Region, about 500 kilometres South of Dar es Salaam. The abundance of natural gas reserves has been discovered reported many areas of the...

Federal Bureau of Public Service Reforms Awards PalmPay as the Digital Governance Company of the Year 2025 

PalmPay won the Digital Governance Company of the Year (Fintech Innovation) at the Nigeria GovTech Awards 2025, organised by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms. The award ceremony at the Presidential Villa in Abuja honoured organisations driving...

Odinga and Nyerere: The economics of defiance

DAR ES SALAAM: RAILA Odinga’s demise marks more than the death of a political figure; it closes a generational loop linking two moral economies and that is Kenya’s democratic reformism and Tanzania’s nation building idealism. In East Africa’s...

Tanzania steps up in global climate talks

CLIMATE change is no longer a distant threat, but it is a lived reality marked by rising seas, erratic weather and growing food insecurity. In response, global platforms like the UN’s Conference of the Parties (COP) aim to coordinate action,...

What’s driving the ‘Gen Z’ revolts in the Global South?

Gen Z revolts are sweeping the Global South as people take to the streets against corruption and deprivation. The first Gen Z uprising was in Kenya last year. Since then Peru, Morocco, Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, East Timor,...

Foot Slopes Tours and Safaris Launches New Tanzania Safari Collection

Toronto, Canada, October 17th, 2025, FinanceWire Foot Slopes Tours and Safaris, a safari operator based in Arusha, has announced the launch of its new line of Once-in-a-Lifetime Tanzania Safari Vacations. The collection offers tailored travel...

Burundi : the US dollar drops — currency exchanges cry losses, consumers wait for price drops

SOS Médias Burundi Bujumbura, October 18, 2025 — This decline comes amid a chaotic economic climate. The small east African nation is experiencing the worst economic crisis in its history, marked by shortages in almost every sector. The fuel...

Business News | Economists Late Lord Meghnad Desai, Lord Nicolas Stern, Shri Bimal Jalan and Dr. Shankar Acharya Conferred with Top TIOL Fiscal Awards

NewsVoir New Delhi [India], October 7: Former Chief Justice of India Justice Sanjiv Khanna conferred Economists Late Lord Meghnad Desai, Lord Nicolas Stern, and duo of former RBI Governor Shri Viman Jalan and former Chief Economic Advisor Dr....

AfDB pledges to offer a Tanzanian bank a 60m US dollar grant

WASHINGTON: THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has pledged to provide a total of 60m US dollars to the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) in 2026 to enhance its capital base further. This was disclosed by the Managing Director of TADB,...

Yunnan exports poultry hatching eggs to Tanzania, marking milestone

A shipment of around 35,000 white feathered broiler hatching eggs departed from Yunnan Province on Friday, marking the province’s first export of domestically produced hatching eggs to an overseas market. The “Guangming No. 2” hatching eggs,...

Insurance market grows 20pc as TIRA launches Bima House

DODOMA: TANZANIA’S insurance market has recorded robust growth, with Gross Written Premium (GWP) rising by 20.2 per cent to 1.52tri/- in 2024, up from 1.24tri/- in 2023, reflecting the sector’s expanding contribution to the national economy. The...

Tanzania and AGRA push for a data-driven revolution in climate-smart agriculture

DAR ES SALAAM: The Vice President’s Office (Environment) in collaboration with AGRA and Mathematica Global, has officially launched the Climate Vulnerability Assessment Validation Workshop which aims to validate climate risk maps and key data that...

Business News | Data Safety, Indigenous Tech at Core of Railway's Modernisation Push: Railway Board DG-Safety

New Delhi [India] October 16 (ANI): Indian Railways is strengthening its focus on data safety and cybersecurity alongside technological innovation to ensure operational safety and efficiency, said Hari Shankar Verma, Director General-Safety,...