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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    Tourism boom fuels Zanzibar’s cash surge as exports dive

    Zanzibar achieved a 34.7 percent surge in its current account surplus to 836.6 million dollars through September, powered by robust tourism receipts as visitor numbers climbed 28.2 percent to 885,385 arrivals. The Bank of Tanzania's monthly economic review credited service sector revenues, which...
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    Consumer watchdog rises to hunt shady business tricks

    Tanzania's Fair Competition Commission will introduce a National Consumer Advocacy Council next month to strengthen consumer protection and ensure businesses operate transparently across the country. Acting Director General Hadija Ngasongwa announced the initiative during Industry and Trade...
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    MCB surges 17 percent as investors chase safe bank stocks

    Mwalimu Commercial Bank rocketed over 17 percent higher on the Dar es Salaam bourse after unveiling a three-for-one rights offering designed to bolster reserves, extending a rally that already delivered nearly 19 percent gains during the prior trading stretch. The surge highlighted investor...
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    Tanzania’s pulses at risk as rains set to drop mid-season

    Tanzania faces a split rainfall pattern that threatens pulse harvests after meteorologists warned of moisture deficits during the most sensitive growth stages, even as the planting window opens under favorable conditions. Regional climate experts meeting in Zambia projected adequate...
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    Tanzania seeks investors to boost local drug and device factories

    Tanzania's health ministry has given pharmaceutical regulators three weeks to draft an investor pitch aimed at luring capital into domestic drug and medical equipment factories, a push designed to slash import bills and tighten quality controls over medicines reaching citizens. The directive...
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    COP30 gives East Africa unity and hope, but little climate cash

    East African negotiators emerged from climate talks in Brazil with stronger institutional frameworks but little hard cash, leaving the bloc better positioned for future funding battles yet still short of resources needed to tackle droughts, floods and displacement. The summit sharpened global...
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    Tanzania markets flat as investors flock to bank stocks and bonds

    Tanzania's equity benchmark slipped a negligible three basis points while domestic bond yields climbed into double digits, signaling investor caution toward stocks and sustained appetite for sovereign paper across longer maturities. The Dar es Salaam bourse registered minuscule losses on its...
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    Oman signs with Airbus for reconfigurable national satellite

    Airbus Defence and Space will supply Space Communication Technologies with OmanSat-1, a software-defined Ka-band satellite capable of real-time adjustments to coverage zones and bandwidth allocation while orbiting above the Middle East, East Africa and Asia. The fully reconfigurable platform...
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    UAE lets residents pay government fees in instalments with Tabby

    The UAE finance ministry has teamed up with Tabby to let citizens split government fees and penalties into monthly chunks through buy-now-pay-later mechanics, marking the first time federal authorities have embraced installment models for public obligations. Tabby fronts the full sum to agencies...
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    Botim money and City Exchange launch digital salary card for UAE workers

    Astra Tech's botim money has locked a multi-year deal with City Exchange to roll out co-branded salary cards that funnel wages directly into digital wallets for thousands of Emirati workers, tightening compliance with mandatory payroll safeguards while opening doors to remittances, credit and...
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    Riverbed debuts Saudi Arabia’s first AI observability cloud

    Riverbed will spin up its Aternity Cloud observability platform inside Saudi Arabian borders by early 2026, delivering the kingdom's first software-as-a-service monitoring tool laced with artificial intelligence that satisfies strict data sovereignty mandates. The AIOps specialist has...
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    Ruslan Nigmatullin’s painful divorce and family rift with new love

    Russian football legend Ruslan Nigmatullin has remarried at 51, tying the knot with television presenter Evelina Syncha months after a bitter split from his wife of 27 years ended in a property dispute worth tens of millions of rubles. The former goalkeeper accused Elena of refusing his 50-50...
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    CommScope launches AI-powered Wi-Fi 7 for smarter residential networks

    CommScope has rolled out its RUCKUS Multi-Dwelling Unit portfolio, embedding Wi-Fi 7 silicon and artificial intelligence engines to streamline network oversight across apartment blocks and managed residential estates. The package fuses the RUCKUS One MDU 360 platform with a conversational...
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    eToro lets UAE users deposit crypto and earn 1% stock rewards

    eToro has opened crypto deposit channels for UAE account holders, positioning itself among a handful of regional platforms that permit direct transfers from external exchanges, brokers and blockchain wallets. The trading venue accepts nine digital currencies, spanning bitcoin, ethereum, XRP...
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    e& UAE unveils world’s first dual-800GE network breakthrough

    e& UAE has wrapped the planet's first IP plus DWDM dual-800GE trial, pushing bandwidth thresholds for carriers threading 5.5G networks, cloud platforms and artificial intelligence workloads across the Middle East. The Emirates operator stress-tested end-to-end connectivity, mimicking its EMIX...
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    Zanu-PF donation empowers Epworth students for a digital future

    Epworth High School has received a batch of computing hardware from Simbarashe Manomano, the Zanu PF district chair for Joshua Nkomo, as part of a wider push to embed digital literacy within Zimbabwe's education system and advance the government's upper-middle-income aspirations by decade's end...
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    42,000 pack Rufaro Stadium for Zanu-PF's economic push

    Rufaro Stadium drew 42,000 Zanu PF supporters from five constituencies across Harare's Zone 6, where senior leadership delivered conference briefings and unveiled freshly appointed Central Committee figures at the region's sixth inter-district assembly. Provincial commissar Voyage Dambuza...
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    Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's reign is divinely ordained

    Paul Tungwarara, a special advisor to Zimbabwe's head of state, told mourners at a funeral in Chinhoyi that President Mnangagwa will retain office until his Vision 2030 economic blueprint reaches completion, describing the leader's tenure as divinely mandated. Speaking at services for Reverend...
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    Kenya’s Connect Academy graduates first skilled fibre experts

    Safaricom and Kenya's ICT Authority have graduated their first class of 48 digital infrastructure technicians through Connect Academy, a program conceived at the Connected Africa Summit to combat the country's shortage of fibre deployment specialists. The three-month intensive combined classroom...
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    CSquared joins LINX Accra to supercharge Africa’s internet

    CSquared has filed paperwork to connect with LINX Accra, the London Internet Exchange's freshly minted peering hub in Ghana, as the pan-African infrastructure firm tightens its grip on regional backbone capacity. The application follows the company's recent deployment of cross-border fibre...
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