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Arusha Regional Commissioner Amos Makalla is hyped about tourist numbers heading into the holidays, and he gave props to the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators for keeping things smooth during protests back in October while pushing Tanzanian tourism worldwide. The RC told visitors planning...

Tanzania's environmental watchdog is cracking down on noise pollution after getting flooded with complaints from people in cities and rural spots dealing with loud entertainment venues, construction sites, and businesses blasting sound equipment past legal limits. NEMC's Legal Compliance Manager...

Peter Mallya goes by PEDIMA, and the 33-year-old Tanzanian runs four companies that are making waves in fintech, health products, and digital payments while creating jobs for young people. His businesses handle mobile money services, microfinance loans for small entrepreneurs, digital payment...

NEMC destroyed WCF 5-0 at Highland Stadium in Morogoro during the SHIMMUTA Games, with Fortinatus Patrick dropping three goals to lead the beatdown. Patrick knocked in a penalty kick after 15 minutes, added another before halftime, and completed his hat trick early in the second half while...

Vodacom Tanzania rolled out M-Pesa Global Payments through partnerships with VISA, Alipay, Network International, Magnati, and MTN Uganda, and customers can tap their phones loaded with M-Pesa Visa cards on terminals worldwide or send money to merchants in China, Dubai, and Uganda. The Tap & Pay...

Ruto kicked off work on the Rironi to Mau Summit highway expansion, and he promised the Kamandura to Gilgil section would be done within half a year while the whole 233-kilometer project wraps up by mid-2027. The road gets built through a public-private partnership with Chinese firms and NSSF...

Trump dropped a bombshell on Truth Social about hitting pause on migration from what he calls Third World Countries after a National Guard member got killed near the White House by an Afghan guy who came over during the 2021 pullout. The president is calling it a terrorist attack, and he...

Police in Homa Bay County got back a gun that went missing when some guys jumped MP Peter Kaluma at a polling station in Agoro Sare. County Police Commander Lawrence Koilim said the weapon belonged to Kaluma's bodyguard, and officers tracked it down after chasing the attackers who ditched it...

A judge just nuked the government's attempt to slap a 10-percent tax on palm oil imports after officials skipped the whole parliamentary approval thing and locked ordinary people out of the conversation. Justice Bahati Mwamuye said bureaucrats broke constitutional rules by ditching the zero-rate...

The guy who used to run the National Assembly got caught on camera brawling with some kid at a polling station, and the current majority leader is absolutely dragging him for it. Kimani Ichung'wah went off about how Justin Muturi basically trashed his entire reputation by getting into a scuffle...

A Kenyan judge just torched the legal foundation holding up the country's excise tax tracking system, and the ruling calls out procurement failures that basically broke every rule in the book. Justice Bahati Mwamuye said the whole process for setting up the stamps-and-scanners program was...

The dad of a guy who died in police custody wants a high-ranking cop dragged into court over his son's death. Meshack Ojwang filed papers claiming Deputy Inspector General Eliud Lagat ordered officers to grab Albert Omondi Ojwang from their home after the son supposedly shared corruption...

Bulldozers finished tearing down the old Makongeni Estate buildings, even though a court said to pump the brakes on the whole thing. Workers cleared out every single-room unit and started ripping apart what was left of the apartment blocks after most people had already bounced with their...

A Kenyan judge tossed out the government's attempt to ban live protest coverage from broadcast stations, and the ruling shut down the whole mess that started when authorities raided transmission towers to kill signals from major TV networks. The Communications Authority tried claiming that...

Rachel Ruto told a crowd at the JoyWo anniversary event that women already have the hustle and the brains, but getting their hands on actual cash is what blocks most of them from scaling up. She threw out examples of members who went from pocket change to legit businesses selling dairy products...

The guy who came fifth in the Baringo Senate race just dropped a concession note after pulling 488 votes against the winner's 55,000-plus showing. Samuel Letasio said he ran into the contest with basically zero time to prep, and he couldn't afford to plant agents at most polling stations to...

Kenya's parliament committee met with KEBS to hash out a replacement for the outdated 1974 Standards Act, and lawmakers are saying the half-century-old rules can't keep up with how fast the economy is moving. Tharaka MP George Murugara, who chairs the legal affairs panel, wants a framework built...

Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya came out swinging after the Malava race wrapped up, saying the whole thing exposed serious problems with how elections get run in Kenya. He pointed to reports about voter bribes, heavy security deployment, and tension at polling stations that made people...

Guinea-Bissau's military pulled off another coup right before election results were supposed to drop, and they kicked out President Umaro Sissoco Embaló before installing Gen Horta N'Tam as the new guy running things for a year. The ousted leader got flown to Senegal after regional diplomats...

Farouk Kibet told the guy who lost the Malava race that he should drop the beef and team up with the new MP for development work. The presidential aide backed David Ndakwa during the campaign and watched him pull off a tight win against Seth Panyako from DAP-K. Kibet said he plans to pitch...