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Tanzania scooped up five trophies at the World Travel Awards in Bahrain, and Natural Resources Minister Ashatu Kijaji grabbed them at a ceremony in Dodoma. Serengeti National Park got tagged as the planet's dopest national park, while Zanzibar landed recognition for meetings and conferences...

Tanzania Posts Corporation is running a writing contest for kids between 9 and 15 to get them into letter writing and thinking about stuff happening around them. Marketing Director Ferdinand Kabyemela said the whole thing connects to digital changes, and kids can enter in either Kiswahili or...

Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi rolled out plans for a performance review system that'll supposedly make government leaders more accountable and productive. He dropped this during World Ethics and Human Rights Day celebrations at Dimani Conference Hall, and he made it clear that public...

Tanzania's gunning for 8,000 megawatts of power generation by hitting up different energy sources, and Energy Minister Deogratias Ndejembi says they're planning to wrap the whole thing up by 2030. He dropped this during a staff meeting in Morogoro, where he basically told everyone to stop being...

Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba showed up at a funeral mass in Songea's Ruvuma region to pay respects to Jenista Mhagama, who used to represent Peramiho in Parliament. Speaker Mussa Zungu was there as well, and the whole thing went down at St. Benedict Catholic Church with a bunch of government...

Tanzania's Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi joined a video call from Bukoba to back SADC's push for getting Madagascar stabilized after a recent coup. The regional security bloc held a meeting of its Political, Defence and Security Organisation troika to figure out how to handle the chaos in the...

Tanzania is betting big on youth employment through Vision 2050 after Planning Minister Kitila Mkumbo dropped the roadmap targeting eight million jobs and 50 billion dollars in investment. The government set up a One Stop Facilitation Centre that bundles 14 public agencies under one roof for...

DAWASA boss Mkama Bwire rolled through Kinondoni District, checking water delivery schedules in Mwananyamala Ward, and he wants people to build habits around conservation instead of wasting supply when taps actually run. The inspection confirmed residents were getting service twice weekly based...

TANROADS shot down social media claims about substandard construction on the Dodoma-Gairo trunk road near Makaravati in Kongwa District after people started freaking out online. Resident Engineer Elisony Mweladzi explained the 300-meter stretch was a deliberate test section that contractors...

Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba told regional and district commissioners to make sure Tanzanians stop wasting food stocks because the rains are showing up late this season. The Tanzania Meteorological Authority warned that Dodoma, Katavi, Kigoma, Singida, Tabora, Iringa, Mbeya, Mtwara, Njombe...

Former minister Geofrey Mwambe is sitting in a Dar es Salaam holding cell waiting for a bail hearing at Kisutu court after police grabbed him back on December 7. His lawyer, Hekima Mwasipu, applied to the Inspector General of Police, plus two other officials, and the case landed in front of...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan locked herself in a room with Tanzania People's Defence Force commanders at the Air Defence Military School in Tanga for her first military leadership meeting after winning her second term. The closed-door session went down at the facility known as SKUA. No details...

Former Young Africans winger Chico Ushindi died at 29 after getting sick in Lubumbashi, and both TP Mazembe plus JS Groupe Bazano confirmed the loss, while the Congolese Football Federation dropped an official statement. The player came through the École de Football Moïse Katumbi academy before...

Taifa Stars beat Halas El Hodood SC from Egypt with a single strike from Morice Abraham before heading into AFCON, and the squad just swapped Abdul Suleiman for Selemani Mwalimu after an injury knocked the original striker out during training camp. Coach Miguel Gamondi locked in the final roster...

Tanzania Commercial Bank rolled out its Toka Nayo Popote campaign that gives customers 10 percent cash back when they swipe Visa cards during the holiday season. Marketing Director Alex Dwashi said the push aims to get people using digital payments instead of physical money while cutting down on...

Zanzibar's Ministry of Health teamed up with PharmAccess and the Zanzibar Health Services Fund to launch the ZHSF Mothers project that gives over 2,300 pregnant women digital insurance tracking across 25 facilities in Kaskazini B and Micheweni districts. The MomCare model hooks low-income...

Tanzania ditched the old certificate-chasing education model and pivoted hard toward practical skills after updating its 2014 policy. The government split secondary school into academic versus vocational tracks while extending mandatory schooling from seven to ten years, which keeps kids...

Chinese Ambassador Chen Mingjian showed up at Zaidia Orphanage in Dar es Salaam to mark two years of the Warm Children's Hearts program, and she brought medical teams plus donations of medicine, food, and school supplies. The health initiative launched back when Professor Peng Liyuan proposed it...

Tanzania kept its peace reputation intact when police blocked unlawful Independence Day protests through early prep and constant communication updates every six hours. The security response came after the October election violence killed people and trashed property, but authorities cited...

Benjamin Mkapa Hospital cardiologists screened 176 heart patients during a five-day medical camp in Singida Region, and 26 people got shipped back to the Dodoma facility for advanced treatment. Dr. John Meda from the cardiology department said the patient turnout crushed expectations while...