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Farmers are getting schooled on keeping the water flowing. The National Irrigation Commission is training them to manage and maintain irrigation systems, aiming to combat climate impacts like drought and flood. Sessions at schemes like Ngabobo in Arumeru District focus on preventing...

Tanzania's national team still has a slim shot at advancing. The Taifa Stars played to a 1-1 draw with Uganda, leaving both teams with a single point in Group C. Nigeria has already qualified with six points after beating Tunisia. The final group stage slot will be decided tomorrow when Tanzania...

A big bank just slapped its name on a major football tournament. NMB Bank signed a five-year title deal to rebrand the Mapinduzi Cup as the NMB Mapinduzi Cup, starting with this year's edition. The agreement runs through 2030. This year's contest features ten teams across three groups, including...

Mozambique pulled off a wild win to stay alive at the tournament. They beat Gabon 3-2 in a Group F match at the Adrar Stadium in Agadir, Morocco. Faisal Bangal opened the scoring with a header off a Geny Catamo corner. Catamo then nailed a penalty before halftime after a foul on Elias Pelembe...

Tanzania is in Morocco right now, basically spying for tips before they co-host AFCON. Deputy Tourism Minister Hamad Hassan Chande said a government team is studying how the North African country uses big sports events to boost tourism and lure investors. He mentioned Tanzania's own Royal Tour...

Strong exports are finally fixing the country's trade imbalance. Tanzania narrowed its current account deficit to 2.22 billion dollars for the year ending in October, down from 2.89 billion the previous year. This improvement, now at 2.4 percent of GDP, was driven by a surge in exports, hitting...

Losing hundreds of moms during childbirth is just a normal statistic in one troubled country. The Central African Republic faces a brutal maternal death rate, with 829 fatalities for every 100,000 live births. Fewer than half of pregnant women get proper prenatal checkups, and about a third...

This whole conversation about abuse is way more complicated than people think. Gender-based violence isn't just about hurting women and kids, though they're still the main targets. It's really about power and enforcing stupid social rules. The term covers physical beatings, sexual assault, mind...

They're fixing the old highway to deal with all those trucks. TANROADS Coast Regional Manager Baraka Mwambage announced the rehabilitation of a 66-kilometer stretch of the original Morogoro Road on the Coast Region side. The work, costing 6.8 billion shillings, aims to cut congestion ahead of a...

A water board actually has more supply than it's using right now. Data presented at a stakeholder workshop in Moshi shows the Pangani Basin Water Board uses about 17.76 cubic kilometers of water flow each year, with another 7.27 cubic kilometers still available. Facilitator Dorothea Deus from...

A regional boss is fed up with people wrecking road signs. Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner Nurdin Babu urged citizens to protect infrastructure, calling vandalism costly and dangerous. He spoke at a regional road board meeting in Moshi, thanking the national government for major funding. He...

The government says it's keeping the door open for NGO help. Deputy Minerals Minister Stephen Kiruswa, also the Longido MP, reiterated this stance during a project tour in Arusha's Longido District. He praised the local NGO Pingo's Forum for its work, citing over 150 million shillings invested...

The capital just went through a brutal dry spell that pushed people to the brink. Dar es Salaam faced a severe water shortage, hitting women and girls hardest as they waited hours for a single bucket. The Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation Authority enacted emergency rationing. Prices for...

A minister told grads their new skills are worthless if they just sit on them. Zanzibar's Minister for Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Anna Atanath Paul, addressed graduates at Mkokotoni Vocational Training College in North Unguja. She pushed them to use their training in...

Tanga's top cop is sounding the alarm over brutal attacks on kids. Regional Police Commander Almachius Muchunguzi warned that domestic violence and vigilante justice are severe threats to children in the area. He cited specific horrific cases, including a three-year-old in Kiloza Village...

Finally, an island community won't need a boat ride to see a doctor. Zanzibar's Second Vice President Hemed Suleiman Abdulla laid the foundation stone for the Tumbatu Health Centre, a project set to end risky sea travel for over 18,000 residents. The 6.4 billion shilling facility, funded by the...

Religious leaders in Tanzania are pushing for real peace, not just the quiet kind. Bishop Dikson Cholongani of the Anglican Church’s Central Diocese spoke during a Christmas service at Holy Spirit Anglican Cathedral in Dodoma. He argued that stability will not come from guns or government...

Zanzibar's president is going vertical to fix the classroom crisis. President Hussein Ali Mwinyi announced a major push for multi-storey school construction as a permanent fix for severe overcrowding and the double-shift system plaguing the islands. He made the declaration at the opening of the...

Tanzania just dropped a massive new roadmap aiming for a trillion-dollar economy. The country launched its Tanzania Development Vision 2050, a national blueprint designed to transform it into an upper-middle-income nation. President Samia Suluhu Hassan introduced the plan in Dodoma. It targets...

They're hiring a ton of locals for some big seismic work up in Tanzania. Over two thousand Tanzanians are now working on the second phase of the Eyasi-Wembere oil and gas exploration project. This is happening at Endeshi Village in the Karatu District of the Arusha Region. The project is run by...