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Zimbabwe's hip-hop critics just dropped their year-end rankings, and the consensus says Sane Wav basically owned 2025 after his track Bhimu blew up following six months of hype. Holy Ten put out Musoro weNzou after getting arrested and laying low, while RayKaz finally released his long-teased...

President Samia gave a farewell speech for Jenista Mhagama at a church service in Dodoma, and she called the former minister a legit role model who stood up for justice and put Tanzania first. Samia said Mhagama was a teacher who basically schooled everyone on what ethical leadership looks like...

Kariakoo International Market is cooking up a five-year strategic plan to drag itself into the modern era with better tech and faster service. General Manager Ashiraf Abdulkarim says they pulled in everyone from the Prime Minister's Office to local traders to make sure the thing actually works...

The Bank of Tanzania dumped 15 million bucks into the foreign exchange market to stop things from getting weird with liquidity. The central bank ran an auction where commercial banks went hard trying to grab dollars, and the clearing rate landed at 2,449.18 shillings per greenback. Nineteen...

Tanzania is calling a big meeting in Dodoma to sort out the gypsum mining drama. Deputy Minerals Minister Steven Kiruswa says everyone involved is getting summoned: small-scale diggers, truckers, cement companies, and local officials from Same District. The whole sector has been a mess because...

Tanzania wants to fix the mess at Tunduma, where trucks heading to Zambia and the DRC get stuck in brutal traffic jams. Construction Minister Abdallah Ulega told TANROADS to figure out how to widen the border road, and he wants three lanes built to handle the congestion. The government also...

United African University of Tanzania's board chair, Prof Rwekaza Mukandala, told graduates that pumping money into tech education and getting the government plus private companies to team up would help crank out more qualified people in the field. The vice chancellor, Prof Sung Kim, mentioned...

India upgraded its Kabul mission to full embassy status and let the Taliban assign diplomats to their Delhi posts after Afghanistan's acting foreign minister visited. Mawlavi Amir Khan Muttaqi showed up to discuss humanitarian projects like maternity centers and cancer treatment facilities, and...

Thailand's prime minister told reporters his military would keep bombing Cambodian positions until the threat disappears, and he pushed back against claims that both sides agreed to halt fighting. Anutin Charnvirakul posted on social media that operations would continue despite Donald Trump...

Tanzania's National Sports Council teamed up with the football federation and Blueberry Travels to organize group flights for supporters heading to Morocco for the AFCON tournament. Benson Chacha from NSC mentioned that fans kept asking about coordinated trips, so they picked a travel company to...

Fadhil Nkya grabbed his fourth straight win at the Lina PG Tour Pro-Am event after finishing the 72-hole competition in Morogoro with a plus-16 total. The Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club player beat clubmate Rajab Iddy by three strokes and has already banked 27.2 million shillings this season, which...

Tanzania's tourism sector pulled in $3.92 billion by May and finally overtook gold exports as the country's biggest foreign-currency generator. The expansion created 1.5 million direct jobs and another million across the supply chain, with companies like Altezza Travel growing from ten employees...

A 79-year-old guy from Ijumbi Ward just handed over some land and a building to the Tanzania Police Force without asking for anything back. Prosper Rweyendera donated in Muleba District, and Senior Assistant Commissioner Blasius Chatanda showed up to accept it. The regional commander praised the...

Coast Region officials got told to ditch the red tape and back President Samia Suluhu Hassan's 100-day promises after she got sworn in back in November. Regional Commissioner Abubakar Kunenge gathered district bosses, council chairs from all nine councils, and department heads to check progress...

A truck with busted brakes plowed into a group of motorcycle taxi drivers chilling on the roadside near the University of Dodoma, and five bodaboda riders got killed, while one person ended up in the hospital. The driver of vehicle T 824 EKS bounced right after smashing into the group before...

Tanzania's Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi showed up at former Peramiho MP Jenista Mhagama's place in Dodoma to pay respects after she died at 58. He said the ex-health minister spent years repping her constituency while pushing development across the Ruvuma Region and working with the ruling...

Tanzanians are hyping up the government's security push after some post-election chaos back in October messed with the country's reputation as a stable spot in the region. Professor Humphrey Moshi from the University of Dar es Salaam said the whole thing was a wake-up call that peace keeps the...

Diamond Trust Bank Tanzania bumped profits by half to 13 billion shillings during early 2025, while assets hit 1.89 trillion, mostly because they doubled down on small and medium businesses instead of chasing big corporate clients. CEO Ravneet Chowdhury said the bank gets in early with SMEs that...

Airtel Tanzania just dropped three new cell towers across Morogoro and Kilimanjaro to patch up dead zones that have been killing business and emergency comms for years. Morogoro scored two spots in Gairo District at Magoweko ward and Kihonda VETA, while Kilimanjaro got one at Sanya Juu in Hai...

Tanzania is letting people snag birth certificates in 48 hours through a new digital system that works on phones or computers. The Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency rolled out the platform to make things easier nationwide, and Constitution Minister Dr Juma Zuberi Homera said the...