Tanzania's Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency tracked over 5,200 registered trustee boards across the country, with most of them running community and religious groups. Administrator General Frank Kanyusi broke down the numbers at a recent Dodoma meeting, showing 19 boards for political parties, 24 for sports groups, and 150 family boards on the books.
The agency deals with boards that mess up asset management, ignore legal requirements, and fight over leadership changes. Constitutional and Legal Affairs Minister Juma Homera told trustees to follow the rules when handling community resources, while pushing RITA to upgrade its digital registration system and expand training programs.
RITA launched back in 2006 after...
Tanzania's Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba told people at the closing event for Tanzania Startup Week 2025 that young tech companies are basically the backbone of hitting that Vision 2050 goal of becoming a trillion-dollar economy. He said the annual gathering gives homegrown innovators a real shot at connecting with investors and policymakers while showing off solutions for agriculture, healthcare, education, and finance.
The government set up systems through the National Economic Empowerment Council to funnel money and support to youth-led ventures across all regions. By the end of last year, over a thousand startups were expected to exist in Tanzania, creating more than 340,000 jobs mainly for young people.
Nchemba stressed that...
Tanzania's government is going hard on antimicrobial resistance by pumping up health systems, backing more scientific research, and pushing people to use medicines the right way. Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi said the country launched a massive awareness campaign called Holelaholela Itakukosti that hit nearly 25 million people, and they even translated the AMR term into Kiswahili to make it easier for everyone to understand.
The government rolled out its Second National Action Plan that takes a One Health approach by linking human health with animal and environmental stuff. Results show a 14 percent drop in AMR-related deaths and an 88 percent cut in antibiotic use across the country, plus better food safety through tighter...
Zanzibar got almost every single HIV patient on antiretroviral meds right now, with 96 percent of the 10,241 diagnosed people getting treatment. Women are getting hit way harder than men, though, and the 25 to 34 age group is catching the most STIs that bump up HIV risk. Dr Ali Salim Ali from the Zanzibar AIDS Commission dropped these numbers at a World AIDS Day meeting, pointing out that young women are facing way more danger than young men when it comes to sexually transmitted infections.
The stats show about 70 percent of people on treatment are women, and they made up 79 percent of the 23,220 STI cases treated. Outreach programs connected with over 6,400 people from high-risk groups, testing nearly all of them and finding 77 new...
Tanzanian cops are telling people to stay away from protests set for next week because they think the whole thing is basically a setup for chaos. Deputy Commissioner David Misime said police intelligence caught wind of sketchy online coordination that looks more like riot planning than peaceful demonstration organizing, and authorities are worried about attacks on hospitals, government workers, and critical infrastructure.
The warning comes after some wild stuff went down in late October that apparently left the country pretty shaken up. Misime said surveillance picked up messages encouraging people with weapons training to get ready, plus instructions for blocking roads, destroying cell towers, and shutting down businesses. Some...
Tanzania's president told investors their money and operations are safe after meeting with a Commonwealth trade official at State House in Dar es Salaam. Samia Suluhu Hassan sat down with Lord Hugo Swire from the Commonwealth Trade and Investment Council to talk about getting more business flowing into the country and creating jobs for locals.
Hassan pointed out that Tanzania has been playing nice with investors for over 60 years and keeps tweaking things to make doing business easier. She acknowledged some internal drama that went down in late October, but said the government has everything under control. The country is apparently working on constitutional reforms to make institutions run better and help the business sector.
Swire...
Deputy President Kithure Kindiki says Kenya will start construction on a brand-new airport within the next couple of months, and he's not holding back about how outdated the current setup is. The government wants to drop around 200 billion shillings on the project through private partnerships, similar to how Qatar helped fund Rwanda's international airport.
President William Ruto has been pushing this hard, calling out Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for being a mess with literal canvas patches on the runway. He's been talking with Qatar's leader about getting investors on board to modernize JKIA and prop up Kenya Airways at the same time.
Ruto keeps shooting down rumors that the government wants to sell the airport, saying the...
Kenya just finished building a 66-kilometer highway between Ngong and Suswa after the whole thing got stuck in development hell for years. The route gives drivers another way out of Nairobi, and it should take some heat off the absolutely packed Nairobi-Mai Mahiu road that people hate.
The project was supposed to cost 4 billion shillings and wrap up in 42 months, but the contractor bailed in 2020 when the money dried up. Construction picked back up after fresh funding came through, and the Kenya Rural Roads Authority pushed it to 88 percent completion before finally getting it done.
President William Ruto made finishing this thing one of his big goals, and the new highway connects people to Narok, Bomet, Kericho, Kisii, Nyamira, and a...
Rigathi Gachagua is basically rolling out the welcome mat for any ODM politicians who might get the boot. The former deputy president says his Democracy for the Citizens Party is ready to take in people like Edwin Sifuna and Babu Owino if things go sideways for them in Raila Odinga's party.
Gachagua thinks William Ruto is straight-up hijacking ODM after its founder died, and he claims the president literally told him he'd wreck the party. Leaders like Junet Mohamed and Gladys Wanga are backing Ruto through 2027, but Sifuna and Owino aren't playing along, which might get them kicked out.
The ex-VP is warning that ODM will tank hard if it becomes a Ruto puppet, saying the party will end up with barely any seats in Nairobi. He's pitching...
