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Oryx Gas Tanzania wants to hit that government target of getting 80 percent of people switched over to clean cooking fuel by 2034, and they're upgrading their distribution setup to make it happen. Sales boss Shaban Fundi talked about their GESI YENTE promo that pulled over a million participants...

Algeria hosted a continental summit where African leaders pushed hard for colonial crimes to get officially labeled as crimes against humanity. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune backed the move to criminalize colonialism alongside slavery and apartheid, while delegates hammered out plans for...

Exim Bank Tanzania kicked off a two-month campaign pushing cashless payments with their Mastercard through point-of-sale terminals and online checkout. The promo runs until late January and drops weekly prizes of 100,000 shillings for five people, while monthly winners get 200,000 each. Grand...

Retired Chief Justice Mohammed Chande Othman says the independent commission he leads will dig into election violence across mainland Tanzania and track down what actually went down. He met with reporters in Dar es Salaam and promised victims will get heard while the investigation stays...

African leaders at a conference in Algiers want colonial-era crimes officially recognized and are pushing for reparations. Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said his country dealt with serious abuse under French rule, and he wants compensation plus stolen property returned through a legal...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan is meeting with Dar es Salaam elders at the Julius Nyerere International Conference Center, and she's set to give a speech that's basically about keeping the country locked in on peace and unity while pumping up its reputation at home and abroad. Regional...

Tanzania's government told Burundian refugees at camps that citizenship isn't happening, and they need to head back home since things have settled down there. Home Affairs Minister George Simbachawene laid it out at a meeting with Burundi and UNHCR reps, saying the camps aren't turning into...

Kenya's Nairobi Securities Exchange and Somalia's National Securities Exchange just locked in a deal to link up their markets and get cross-border listings going. The partnership covers tech transfers, dual-listing setups, investor education, and Shariah-compliant products like Sukuk bonds. Both...

African central bank heads met up in Yaounde to push for getting the African Monetary Institute off the ground faster, and they talked about beefing up payment systems by leaning on local and regional infrastructure. Bank of Tanzania Deputy Governor Yamungu Kayandabila showed up at the 47th AACB...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan just dropped 54 billion shillings to fix traffic nightmares around Dar es Salaam and the Coast regions. Works Minister Abdallah Ulega broke the news while checking out the Mbagala Rangi Tatu to Kongowe road expansion, and he told TANROADS bosses to stop letting...

Jambo Aviation pilot Hammad Hassan says the upgraded Kikoboga Airstrip at Mikumi National Park is pulling way more planes and tourists than before. The park used to be dead during this season, but he's literally shuttling groups back and forth with only two hours between flights because people...

Cleopatra Kuniberty Limandora started making banana wine in her mom's kitchen with 300,000 shillings after getting an IT diploma from SAUTI University, but couldn't land a job. She joined the YEFFA program under AGRA, and that changed everything because it taught her that agriculture could...

Twenty-five domestic workers who got certified through the Tanzania Labour College in Mbeya are running training sessions for other house workers across Mwanza. They went through a five-day program with the ILO, CHODAWU, and the government about workplace rights, safety, and basic protections...

Simba Sports Club wants to pull in 29.5 billion shillings next season, which is about 13.5 percent more than what they budgeted last time around. They only hit 24 billion because M-Bet bailed on their sponsorship deal, and the club is suing them over it. Their main sponsor bumped their...

Tanzania's under-17 squad locked down their spot at the Africa Cup of Nations after wrecking Kenya 3-1 in the CECAFA semi-final at Abebe Bikila Stadium in Addis Ababa. Nhingo Luzelenga got things started, and Luqman Mbalasalu made it 2-0 before Kenya's Armstrong Omondi tried to mount a comeback...

Tanzania's livestock game has been leveling up hard under President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The sector pulled in 6.2 percent of GDP this year with 5 percent growth, and it's keeping about 4.6 million households employed. Total livestock value jumped from 30.49 trillion shillings to 33.22 trillion...

Tanzania's trade development agency is opening up shop in Kigoma to make cross-border business easier with Burundi and the DRC. Director General Latifa Khamis said the new office will help traders get better access to services, and they're planning to expand to more border zones like Tunduma in...

Tanzania's industrial lobby is celebrating after the government killed a container tax that manufacturers said was bleeding their margins dry. The Confederation of Tanzania Industries told business owners during a Coast Region meeting that scrapping the 150,000-shilling levy for both loading and...

Some Tanzanian legal explainer dropped a breakdown about how defamation works after people keep wrecking each other online without reading the Media Services Act. The law treats typed posts and spoken rumors the same way because both tank someone's reputation if random people hear the claim and...

Some Tanzanian agricultural group threw a market day in Dar es Salaam to push organic crops after getting about 1.2 billion shillings from Bio-Vision and Swiss aid orgs. Sustainable Agricultural Tanzania wants small-scale farmers ditching chemical fertilizers and hitting both local plus...