Tanzania’s President will use Tsh. Billion 130/- to construct the electricity substation Chalinze Line is a 400kV overhead line of 160km from Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station, Morogoro, Tanzania, to Chalinze, Pwani, Tanzania. The construction works on the JNHPP – Chalinze Line project commenced in 2021, and commissioning is expected in 2022. When completed, it will...
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...
In the coming academic year, the government has allocated a total of Tsh 573/- billion set to be disbursed among 205,500 students as loans and scholarships under the Higher Education Students Loans Board (HESLB). President Samia Suluhu’s government, to enhance imperativeness and the importance of science and technology to the country’s development, the government has...
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...
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...
The government of Tanzania has earmarked a total of 400,000 hectares of land for wheat cultivation, a move aimed at ending crop shortage in the country. Hussein Bashe, the Minister of Agriculture, said the 400,000 hectares of land would be cultivated with wheat in wheat-growing regions within three years, beginning in 2022. According to the...