A ban on Tanzania’s bitter gourd exports to the European Union (EU) countries has lifted, clearing the way for the fruit to access its sprawling markets. EU Commission in Nov 2022, reported had detected an incidence of quarantine pest hosted in Tanzania’s Momordica Charantia (bitter gourd), warranting a blanket ban on the bitter gourd crop...
The newly released Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey (TDHS-MIS) 2022 by NBS reveals that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for all of Tanzania, the urban and rural estimates including Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar decreased from 5.6 children per woman in the 1999 TDGS to 4.8 in the 2022 TDHS-MIS. The trend...
The National Bureau of Statistics has released The 2022 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (2022 TDHS-MIS) which is the 7th DHS survey in Tanzania conducted through the DHS program. The main objective of the 2022 TDHS-MIS is to obtain current information on health or inform policies at the global, regional, and national levels and to...
The Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitution, Geophrey Pinda, stunned members of parliament after revealing that 75% of women who are being detained in Njombe Prison murdered their husbands. This means the greater case in the region was orchestrated by women who kill their husbands over matrimonial matters. Mr Pinda was responding to a question...
Tanzania and Morocco are set to finalize their talks next week for the construction of a fertilizer blending facility to be established at Kisarawe, Coastal Region. The discussion about that goal started way back in 2016. Progress has been slow until recently when President Samia Suluhu Hassan visited Senegal, where she also met with and...
The value of exports of goods and services in Tanzania increased to $12.0 billion during 2022 from $9.87 billion recorded in 2021, driven by non-traditional exports, particularly manufactured goods and minerals and services receipts from tourism according to the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Monthly Economic Review for January 2023. “The increase in exports of manufactured...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced a new commission to assess the performance of Tanzania’s embassies abroad. She made the revelation on Tuesday at the Chamwino State House in Dodoma when launching the commission for Criminal Justice Institutions tasked to assess and recommend how to improve justice. She said after two or three weeks, the...
The prominent Hollywood megastar Idris Elba plans to invest in a major film studio in Tanzania, the Director of Presidential Communication, Zuhura Yunus revealed upon briefing journalists on Monday about the outcome of President Samia’s recent trip to Davos Switzerland. Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina Elba encountered President Samia at Davos in Switzerland at...
The government yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a United Arab Emirates (UAE) firm for the construction of petroleum receiving and storage infrastructures. The deal was signed by the Ministry of Energy and representatives of the UAE-based Emirates National Oil Company Group (ENOC). The decision aims at making Tanzania a petroleum hub in...
Today on January 25, 2023, the Chadema Deputy Chair, Tundu Lissu and the former MP for Eastern Singida in Tanzania arrived from Belgium, where he was self-exiled since 2020 after the general elections. Mr Lissu immediately flew out of the country after being defeated in the 2020 presidential race by the late John Pombe Magufuli,...