Following the allocation of Tsh 150bn/- in the agriculture budget 2022/23 to subsidize fertilizer prices, the government plans to increase the amount of fertilizer in 2022/23 up to 500,000 tones. In the agricultural season of 2021/22, Tanzania utilized 360,000 tones of fertilizers. According to Dr. Ngailo, the Tanzania Fertilizers Regulatory Authority (TFRA), the farmer’s fertilizer...
A 33-year-old woman who died three weeks after she arrived in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, is believed to have died during a botched operation to remove one of her kidneys by her employer. Her husband, Abdulrazik Juma, claims that his wife, Rose Atieno, had made her last distress call to inform him that her employer had...
The minister for minerals, Hon Doto Biteko, under President Samia Suluhu, has announced a big favour for small miners all over the country. A grace that is going to liberate them in life completely. This step has come after it was seen that the small miners and the entire mining sector had contributed significantly to...
The government has allocated Tsh 150 billion to cover fertilizer subsidies that will be distributed to farmers in the country to provide relief to the farmers in fertilizers price that has been fluctuating in the world market. President Samia Suluhu Hassan is expected to launch a fertilizer subsidy program at the peak of the Nanenane...
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...
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...