Fertilizer prices have nearly doubled globally, driven by a confluence of factors, including surging input costs and supply shortages fuelled by the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This has negatively impacted agriculture productivity, with Tanzania’s coffee industry expecting a 4 per cent dip in yields to 1.15 million bags in the marketing year 2022/2023. Additionally, the country’s coffee...
On behalf of the minister of sports and culture, Hon Mohammed Mchingerwa, Ms Consolota Mushi, the managing director of Kiswahili Council in Tanzania (BAKITA), has said avoidance or negligence of the use of Kiswahili in performing official activities in Tanzania is punishable by law. Ms Consolata said the minister does not emphasize anything odd but...
Tanzania’s and Kenya’s passports are now the eighth most powerful in Africa and 71 globally. The Henley Passport Index Report shows that the number of countries that Tanzanias can visit without a visa or obtain it on arrival has increased to 72 from 64 in January last year. The country’s mobility score improved six places...
Energy Minister January Makamba will begin a 21-day tour of 14 regions to bring services to the people and explain the ministry’s plans to address the sector’s challenges. Speaking before the press yesterday, Hon Makamba revealed that he plans to break down the Tsh.500 billion allocated by the government in this 2022/23 financial year to...
The High Court has approved Special Seats MP Halima Mdee and 18 others to file a counterclaim against the expulsion of their CHADEMA membership after the court agreed with five arguments stated by Halima and 18 others. Similarly, it has given Mdee and his colleagues 14 days to file the case as required by law,...
Their numbers are growing faster than the transactions they handle. A decade ago, Jackeline Muheirwe was the only mobile-money agent in her patch of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. These days there are ten others within a minute’s walk, taking in and giving out cash from shopfronts or colourful kiosks. “You can’t make money out of...
Understanding diplomacy is not as complex as understanding rocket science. It’s simply the government’s methods and tools to engage with other governments. I presume you must have come across the term diplomacy. Etymologically, it comes from the Greek word diplōma, meaning “an object folded in two”. At the beginning of the 18th C, the use of...
Some exes usually do not go away quickly. It is almost as if they don’t understand what it means for a relationship to be over. So they keep texting you and reaching out in other ways as if everything is still the way it used to be as if that breakup never happened. \We have...
Tanzania avoided a recession in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted lives and livelihoods across the country. The emergency of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus plunged the global economy into a recession in 2020, and the pace of recovery remains uncertain among advanced and emerging economies. Tanzania has fared relatively well compared to its...
An open letter from President Samia Suluhu. TODAY, Tanzania marks 30 years since we officially restored the multiparty political system. During that period, our nation has passed through happiness, sadness, turmoil and endured all kinds of challenges whilst treading the new path. This was never meant to be a smooth transition because such times have...