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TRA Commissioner General Yusuph Mwenda told customs agents and tax consultants to push their clients toward settling obligations fast, especially the fourth income tax installment and VAT returns. The warning came down during a weekend meeting in Dar es Salaam, where Mwenda said dodging payments...

China and Tanzania locked in plans to build the China-Tanzania Engineering Technology Institute after Vice Chancellor Evaristo Riwa from Ardhi University sat down with Liu Ming from Chongqing Vocational Institute and Huang Zaisheng from Group Six International Ltd. The whole partnership goes...

Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi is showing up to wrap the Ethics and Human Rights Day celebrations at the trade fair grounds in Dimani after the government had to push back the global observance date. Minister Haroun Ali Suleiman says this year's theme centers on how digital systems can...

Zambia Cargo and Logistics Limited dropped 1.2 billion shillings on a reach stacker at Dar es Salaam port, and Deputy Minister David Kihenzile showed up to watch them flip the switch. The company went from moving 10,000 TEUs back in 2020 to over 50,000 by September, and CEO Vyonsi Manda says...

Arusha is sitting on mad investment potential with Mount Meru towering overhead, plus access to Kilimanjaro, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and the rarest gemstone reserves on the continent. The region wants both local entrepreneurs and foreign money to jump into agriculture on super fertile land...

Fish cages sitting in Lake Victoria are accidentally turning into breeding hotspots for wild species, according to farmers working the Chembaya Fish Farm Group near Mwanza. Mselikale Mkiju from the group says baby fish slip through the cage mesh and hang out where illegal fishing gear can't...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called Tanzania a peace reference point for Africa and the world after meeting with a delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Kombo in Dar es Salaam. The statement came as President Samia Suluhu Hassan pushed forward with an independent Commission...

Tanga Region is rolling out a youth forum to help young people actually access government loans through digital platforms after officials handed 250 million shillings to women, youth groups, and people with disabilities in Muheza District. Regional Commissioner Batilda Burian said the forum will...

Tourism people in Tanzania gathered at an Arusha workshop to figure out how nature-based solutions could actually work in the industry without going broke. The CEO roundtable teamed up with conservation groups to push operators toward stuff like community conservation projects, fixing up coastal...

Tanzania dumped a bunch of money into fixing up Lake Tanganyika ports and shipyards because it wanted the place to handle way more cargo from the Congo and neighboring countries. The port authority director says they spent over 100 billion shillings upgrading facilities in Kigoma, Katavi, and...

The regional commissioner in Dodoma told fresh graduates that the government basically set them up to figure out their own employment situation by building roads and getting power to every village. Rosemary Senyamule handed out certificates to over 2,000 people who finished up at the College of...

The Dodoma regional commissioner rolled out a program where residents can grab upgraded cookstoves at massively slashed prices because the government is covering 80 percent of the cost. Rosemary Senyamule said people in six districts will pay around 11,200 shillings instead of the usual 56,000...

Tanzania just rolled out a system where birth certificates get printed in two business days instead of the usual bureaucratic nightmare timeline. The registration agency launched the tech upgrade after President Samia Suluhu Hassan told them to speed things up, and the legal affairs minister...

Zanzibar's president told religious leaders that peace is basically the only way the country can actually develop, and he wants them to keep preaching unity to their congregations. Hussein Mwinyi dropped this message after Friday prayers at a mosque in Mwanakwerekwe, where he also told parents...

Tanzania is finally building a massive training facility in Arusha where people can learn to cut and polish gemstones instead of shipping raw rocks overseas. The minerals minister showed up at the Tanzania Gemological Centre construction site and told contractors to throw more workers at the...

Tanzania's healthcare system went from basically nothing to a legit regional powerhouse since independence, with the government dumping cash into hospitals and equipment to the point where people from other countries are flying in for treatment. The place went from 1,343 medical facilities back...

The UN chief told Tanzania they're still holding it down as a peace role model despite some sketchy stuff going down during their election back in October. Antonio Guterres met with a crew from Tanzania at headquarters and said the country passed a real stress test when things got violent around...

Kenya's president is about to greenlight a massive infrastructure fund that's supposed to pull in 5 trillion shillings for big development projects, and he's framing it as the official start of turning the country into a first-world economy. William Ruto told a church crowd that the cabinet will...

The majority leader in Kenya's parliament says Kiambu County is locked in for Ruto when the next election rolls around, and he thinks they'll deliver even harder than they did last time. Kimani Ichung'wah was talking at a church event and pointed to all the road projects happening across the...

An Anglican bishop from Gatundu North basically told everyone to chill about rumors that Mt Kenya might ditch Ruto before the next election. Simon Karatu used his Sunday sermon to double down on regional loyalty, saying the president actually listens to regular people and the whole area still...