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Simba SC coach Dimitar Pentev basically admitted his squad cannot finish to save their lives after losing 2-1 to Stade Malien in Bamako, which marks their second straight loss in CAF Champions League Group D. The Tanzanian club sits dead last in the group after also dropping their opener 1-0 to...

Tanzania Bureau of Standards inspector Samson Fatael said his agency is helping transport innovators get their stuff up to code at the Sustainable Land Transport Week event put on by LATRA. The bureau basically regulates a ton of products across the country, and they want to make sure whatever...

Tanzania's central bank dumped 45 million dollars into the forex market over two back-to-back auctions because the shilling was getting hammered and everyone needed dollars. The Bank of Tanzania sold 25 million at one rate, then another 20 million the next day at a slightly different rate, and...

Trade Minister Judith Kapinga is pushing a bunch of government agencies to go full digital because she thinks it will make things faster and more transparent for businesses trying to operate in Tanzania. She hit up places like the Fair Competition Commission, BRELA, Tanzania Bureau of Standards...

A Tanzanian company called Mzuri Afrika just teamed up with Sokoine University and the African Conservation Tillage Network to bring some next-level farming gear to local growers. The star of the show is this Pro-Til machine that handles tilling, fertilizing, and planting all at once, and it...

Tanzania's got a bunch of UNESCO World Heritage spots that most locals have never actually bothered checking out, and some writer is calling people out for basically ignoring their own backyard. The piece argues that places like the Kondoa rock art and Stone Town aren't just tourist traps, but...

Kairuki University is getting ready to hand out diplomas to 426 grads at its Boko Campus in Dar es Salaam, with retired Speaker Anne Makinda running the show as chancellor. Vice-Chancellor Yohana Mashalla mentioned that this graduation is way bigger than last year, when only 258 people walked...

Tanzania's Constitution and Legal Affairs Minister Juma Zuberi Homera told the Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency to beef up its digital platform eRITA while speaking at a meeting in Dodoma with board members and regional reps. The goal is to speed up how fast people get helped and...

Kagera Cooperative Union wants to grab over 10 million kilos of cherry coffee next season after only managing 4.9 million this round. Chairman Ressy Mashulano says they are pushing farmers to swap out dead trees and go digital with scales while ramping up organic production. The group represents...

Tanzania's information minister told young people to actually read what the founding leaders wrote and listen to their speeches if they want to stop screwing up the country's core values. Professor Palamagamba Kabudi was hyping up Ambassador Daniel Ole Njoolay's new biography in Arusha, saying...

Tanzania's minerals minister told the Mbogwe zone to investigate 191 mining permits in Geita that have been sitting dormant forever without any actual development happening. Anthony Mavunde wants a preliminary report hitting his desk showing who owns these prospecting licenses and what progress...

Tanzania dropped serious cash to wipe out some sheep and goat diseases by 2030, and officials say the country is basically carrying the whole continent on this one. Permanent Secretary Agnes told a workshop crowd that the government has already put down 200 million shillings over five years for...

Tanzania's ruling party ran internal votes to pick who gets to lead cities and districts for the next five years, and CCM councillors across the country chose their mayoral and council chair candidates. Dormohamed Issa kept his Mbeya mayor nomination after beating two opponents with 28 votes...

Tanzania just landed a $640 million farming deal that's supposed to create over 100,000 jobs in the next decade. Pan-Tanzania Agriculture Developments Limited grabbed 62,000 acres in Kilwa District, where they're setting up cassava farms and an industrial park to process stuff for Chinese and...

Local government bigwigs in Tanzania are pushing hard for better neighborhood tracking systems because knowing who actually lives where makes everything from security to basic services way easier to handle. Peppino Sudi from Ubungo District says the old ten-cell leader system for tracking...

Two city councillors from Chinhoyi nearly got locked up after calling someone a prostitute on WhatsApp, and Ruth Chikukwa plus Jacqueline Zenda each had to cough up $350 or face three months behind bars. They got busted under Zimbabwe's Cyber Security and Data Protection Act when Linda Sauramba...

Zimbabwe's national rugby squad finds out who they face at the expanded 2027 World Cup when organizers run the draw in Sydney. The Sables locked their spot by beating Namibia to win the Rugby Africa Cup after sitting out global competition since 1991, and they join South Africa as the...

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is throwing what they're calling a massive tech expo at Harare International Conference Centre that runs for three days starting next week. The whole thing goes by Future-Ready Tech Synergies, and the telecom giant wants to show off AI, IoT, 5G, and cloud stuff while...

Seven college kids walked free after new security camera footage showed their classmate Lorna Kathambi Karani actually died trying to parkour between balconies at Harmony Plaza Apartments in Ngara. Dennis Kariuki Gitonga, Louis Osiro, Lucy Mora, Ali Kabwana Kamaku, Precious Kendi Mutembei...

Nairobi cops are looking into a guy who fell 14 floors from a Kilimani apartment balcony on Kindaruma Road and landed dead on a car roof with both legs shattered. Guards heard the impact, and witnesses say he dropped from a rented place after getting into it with his 48-year-old girlfriend...