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...
She made this intriguing remark during her birthday celebration, and this comment made her a national celebrity in the USA. Taken aback by all the attention, she said she was only doing what her mother had taught her since childhood. “My mother always told us it takes six months to tend to your business. And...
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...
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....