At what age should you let your child use social media? We are in the age of social media. We use our phones for entertainment, education, communication, financial transactions, etc. Kids as young as six months old are already watching ‘baby shark’ on YouTube. But the internet is a very dangerous place, with sexually explicit...
Following the ongoing truck drivers’ boycott, the Prime Minister has called an emergency meeting at his office in Tanzania’s capital Dodoma today, July 26, 2022. The minister who attended the meeting includes the minister for internal affairs, Hon Hamad Masauni, TAMISEMI minister, Hon Innocent Bashungwa and the state minister for work, youth, employment and people...
Sometimes people in relationships, once burning with a passion for each other, suddenly lose interest in the whole affair. Reasons for this could range from exasperating habits like cheating, competence and many others. For men, reasons for losing interest in a relationship with a woman they once liked could be one of the five common...
The terrible performance of TICTS in handling containers at the Dar es Salaam Port over the past 20 years has spillover effects on the vast economic arrays of Tanzania’s economy. The underperformance of the Dar es Salaam port has cost the government trillions in loss of revenues as there has been reported exodus of local...
Somalia has renewed its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) trade bloc, after the country’s newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Arusha to attend the ongoing 22nd Ordinary East Africa Community Heads of State Summit. ”I am here to make a formal bid for Somalia to join the East African Community,” Mohamud said....
Tanzania aims to generate 6000MW of renewable energy by 2025 as Tanzania seeks to fast forward the diversification of the energy mix to ensure energy security. The 6000MW renewable energy milestone will involve various sources, including hydropower, solar and wind. President Samia made that revelation on her US tour in April 2022. The achievement of...
The high-level business delegation has arrived in Tanzania to seek trade and investment opportunities in the agriculture and livestock value chain. Tanzania Investment Centre welcomed the delegation on July 17, 2022. Speaking with the delegation during the meeting on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam, the Deputy Minister for Investment, Industries and Trade, Exaud Kigahe, assured...
For the past few days, business stakeholders have been pleading the government not to offer a new contract to the Tanzania International Containers Terminal Services (TICTS) following its poor performance at the Dar es Salaam port causing unnecessary container congestion leading to shipment delays and expensiveness in conducting business. The wails of the stakeholders have...
Following the sluggish clearance of consignments at the Dar es Salaam Port by Tanzania International Container Terminal Services Ltd (TICTS), the business stakeholders have unanimously called on the government to halt renewal of the contract with the company citing its ineffectiveness and inefficiency at handling containers leading to a lot of unnecessary problems. The company...
GSMA Intelligence’s report showed mobile phone subscribers stood at 46 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa, while smartphone adoption was at 64 per cent The data revealed that mobile technologies and services contributed over $130 billion (Sh 15.4 trillion) to the region’s economy (8 per cent of GDP) in 2021 GSMA predicts that Africa will have...