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Tanzania edges toward trade, industry recovery
Daily News Tanzania
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July 1, 2025
TANZANIA’S trade and industrial sectors are showing strong signs of recovery, driven by improved business conditions and expanding market opportunities across the region and beyond. The exports have steadily increased from 6.38 billion US dollars...
Tanzania’s agro-economy sees sky-high growth in a decade
Daily News Tanzania
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July 1, 2025
DODOMA: TANZANIA has made significant progress in the agriculture sector, particularly in food production over the past decade, President Samia Suluhu has revealed. In the 2014/15 financial year, the country produced 16,015,238 tonnes of food...
Tanzania: Entrepreneur sees ‘a lot of money’ in agriculture
How We Made It In Africa
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July 1, 2025
Hadija Jabiri Hadija Jabiri, founder of agribusiness company GBRI, sees untapped potential across Tanzania’s agricultural sector, particularly in processing fruit, vegetables and grains into value-added products. “You can make a lot of money out...
Tanzania taps Korean model to drive Vision 2050 agenda
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. Tanzania is looking to strengthen its path toward realising its ambitious Vision 2050 by drawing inspiration and strategic support from the Republic of Korea. At a high-level seminar held on June 29, 2025, development experts,...
Tanzania tragedy: Ex-MP Jaffary Michael loses 30 relatives in wedding-bound bus crash
The Citizen
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Moshi. Former Moshi Urban MP Jaffary Michael has shared a heart-wrenching account of how he received news of a fatal road accident that claimed the lives of 30 of his relatives, friends and neighbours who were on their way to attend his daughter’s...
COLUMN: THE CLIFF. Bank of Tanzania: An 88.8pc CBR hold
Daily News Tanzania
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July 1, 2025
TOMORROW, the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) will hold its seventh Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting since introducing the Central Bank Rate (CBR) in January 2024. With the benchmark rate currently at 6.0 percent, this decision arrives during a...
GUEST COLUMNIST: Biogas and beyond: Can Tanzania lead in off-grid solutions?
Daily News Tanzania
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July 1, 2025
THE hum of a diesel generator, the flicker of a kerosene lamp, the smoky haze of a charcoal stove these are ubiquitous sounds, sights and smells across much of rural Tanzania. While the national grid steadily expands, reaching more corners of our...
Why algorithms are Tanzania’s new industry
The Citizen
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It’s Saba Saba Season! A season that reminds us of our nation’s long-standing relationship with productivity, self-reliance, and the idea that we should own what we produce. It is a season tied to factories, farms, local products, and national...
COLUMN: TANZANIA TRENDS. SMART data: Tanzania’s magnet for investors
Daily News Tanzania
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July 1, 2025
APROMISING country with massive growth potential but all you’ve got is last year’s budget speech, a PDF from the National Bureau of Statistics, and three PowerPoint presentations with no interactive data. The potential is obvious agriculture,...
KCB, Equity race to prop up Tanzania subsidiaries
Zawya
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Equity and KCB, the two publicly listed banks and the largest in East Africa, maintain a stiff ri- valry in regional operations: they currently share five markets: Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and South Sudan....
Off-grid solar pioneer d.light reaches $842M in consumer financing
Techpoint Africa
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July 1, 2025
Solar energy financing in Africa just got a massive boost. d.light, the Stanford-born solar company that’s been quietly revolutionising energy access across the continent, has expanded its receivables financing facility to purchase over $300...
Somalia eyes survey results in oil production
Daily News Tanzania
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July 1, 2025
SOMALIA: IN a significant move that could reshape the nation’s economic trajectory, the Somali Petroleum Authority (SPA) has confirmed it will publicly release the results of its long-awaited petroleum surveys in July. The announcement marks a...
What Tanzanians should expect as new financial year begins
The Citizen
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Dodoma. The 2025/26 government financial year officially begins today, July 1, bringing with it a range of changes that offer relief to some citizens while increasing the financial burden on others. The new budget, amounting to Sh56.49 trillion,...
Tanzania stresses fairer financing
Daily News Tanzania
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July 1, 2025
SEVILLE: TANZANIA has called for urgent reforms to the global financial and development funding systems to make them more equitable, predictable, sustainable and aligned with the needs and priorities of developing countries. This call was made...
Tanzania’s new PTS framework set to revolutionise research communication
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam. A new research communication framework developed in Tanzania is poised to transform how researchers disseminate their work, helping bridge the gap between academic findings and real-world impact. Science communication specialist and...
Tanzania declares sugar a strategic crop, expands agricultural investments to boost food self-sufficiency
Food Business Africa Magazine
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June 30, 2025
TANZANIA – Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced that sugar is now considered a strategic crop, with the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) authorized to procure and store the commodity during periods of shortage. This move is...
Don’t fear Nuclear Energy; It’s for Our Development – PM Ngirente Tells African Leaders
KT Press Rwanda
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June 30, 2025
8 Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente has called on Africans to change their mindset regarding preconceived notions about nuclear energy to take advantage of the existing nuclear energy sources and potential to spur economic development for...
Denmark’s EU role, what it means for Tanzania
Daily News Tanzania
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June 30, 2025
FROM July to December 2025, Denmark is taking on a major role within the European Union one that most people outside Europe may not have heard of, yet one that can influence policies that stretch far beyond Europe’s borders, even reaching as far...
Mining revenue hits record 1.063tri/-, surpasses target
Daily News Tanzania
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June 30, 2025
DODOMA: TANZANIA mining sector has set a new record by generating a total of 1.063tri/- with just one day remaining before the close of the 2024/25 financial year. Key factors behind this success include improvements in the business environment,...
SADC experts join efforts to strengthen regional energy security
Daily News Tanzania
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June 30, 2025
HARARE: EXPERTS from Tanzania’s Ministry of Energy and its affiliated institutions are representing the country at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Meeting of Permanent Secretaries and Technical Experts on Energy and Water,...