Tanzania has once again proven to be an attractive destination for investment, with the country receiving a total of $1.2 billion from 93 projects in the first three months of this year. This investment is expected to create over 16,400 job opportunities in the country. The Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) reported that this investment represents...
From around 2019, Mr. Didier Mlawa, a Tanzanian national, gained notoriety and a big online following in the country for his Twitter protest of undemocratic tendencies of the previous regime. His online activism under the name Kigogo2014 made him enemies in high places. Sooner, he fled the country and gained asylum in the UK. He...
The US Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit is expected to create further business and investment avenues for Tanzania. The VP is coming at a time when data shows that Tanzania’s exports to the US increased by 67.5 percent to 164 million US dollars last year, and from 97.9 million US dollars in the previous year,...
The Director-General of the Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC), Masanja Kadogosa, has said that the construction project of the Morogoro-Dar es Salaam section of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has reached 97.93 percent and that the remaining work is to build overpasses for cars and pedestrians. The overpasses being built are somehow delaying full completion as...
For the past six days, Tanzania’s scientists have struggled to identify the deadly pathogen that killed five people in Tanzania’s north-western Kagera region. Today, at an impromptu press called upon by the ministry of health under Hon. Minister Ummy Mwalimu, the government revealed the virus after a series of scientific laboratory experiments. The minister of...
In collaboration with various partners, the College of Information and Communication Technology (CoICT) of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is implementing a project through which 300 secondary schools in Tanzania will be connected to the internet to help students access learning materials online. The school connectivity project is in its third phase and...
East African Community common currency has long been waited by the people. Unfortunately, dreams and hopes to achieve it seems to fade away as the entire plan is projected to take much longer to come to reality. The establishment of the EAC common currency will now be achieved by 20231 following revised timelines set out...
Two years have gone by since President Samia Suluhu Hassan took office on March 19, 2021, by a constitutional provision following the unprecedented death of the late President John Magufuli, who passed away on March 17, 2022, from a complication related to heart failure. President Hassan is the first female to serve in the position...
Williamson Diamond mine in Tanzania a subsidiary of Petra Diamonds located 23 kilometers northeast of Shinyanga in Tanzania is scheduled to restart planned operations during the first quarter of the financial year 2024 its parent company Petra Diamond has said. Petra’s Williamson diamond mine’s operations in Tanzania remain suspended following a tailings dam breach on...
The Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) registered 41 projects worth $339.2 million last month being 128 per cent increase as compared to 18 projects registered in February 2022. Out of 41 projects registered in February 2023, 34 per cent are fully owned by Tanzanians while 42 per cent are fully owned by Foreigners and 24 per...