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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    Taifa Stars edge Egypt, set sights on AFCON glory

    Taifa Stars beat Halas El Hodood SC from Egypt with a single strike from Morice Abraham before heading into AFCON, and the squad just swapped Abdul Suleiman for Selemani Mwalimu after an injury knocked the original striker out during training camp. Coach Miguel Gamondi locked in the final roster...
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    TCB pushes cashless, rewards festive spenders

    Tanzania Commercial Bank rolled out its Toka Nayo Popote campaign that gives customers 10 percent cash back when they swipe Visa cards during the holiday season. Marketing Director Alex Dwashi said the push aims to get people using digital payments instead of physical money while cutting down on...
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    Zanzibar’s MomCare app saves moms, not just data

    Zanzibar's Ministry of Health teamed up with PharmAccess and the Zanzibar Health Services Fund to launch the ZHSF Mothers project that gives over 2,300 pregnant women digital insurance tracking across 25 facilities in Kaskazini B and Micheweni districts. The MomCare model hooks low-income...
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    Tanzania bets on skills over certificates

    Tanzania ditched the old certificate-chasing education model and pivoted hard toward practical skills after updating its 2014 policy. The government split secondary school into academic versus vocational tracks while extending mandatory schooling from seven to ten years, which keeps kids...
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    China’s Warm Hearts heal Tanzanian kids

    Chinese Ambassador Chen Mingjian showed up at Zaidia Orphanage in Dar es Salaam to mark two years of the Warm Children's Hearts program, and she brought medical teams plus donations of medicine, food, and school supplies. The health initiative launched back when Professor Peng Liyuan proposed it...
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    Peace tested, trust in cops holds strong

    Tanzania kept its peace reputation intact when police blocked unlawful Independence Day protests through early prep and constant communication updates every six hours. The security response came after the October election violence killed people and trashed property, but authorities cited...
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    Heart camp screens 176, 26 need BMH care

    Benjamin Mkapa Hospital cardiologists screened 176 heart patients during a five-day medical camp in Singida Region, and 26 people got shipped back to the Dodoma facility for advanced treatment. Dr. John Meda from the cardiology department said the patient turnout crushed expectations while...
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    Pay up, Tanzania—taxman’s watching close

    TRA Commissioner General Yusuph Mwenda told customs agents and tax consultants to push their clients toward settling obligations fast, especially the fourth income tax installment and VAT returns. The warning came down during a weekend meeting in Dar es Salaam, where Mwenda said dodging payments...
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    China, Tanzania build tech ed powerhouse

    China and Tanzania locked in plans to build the China-Tanzania Engineering Technology Institute after Vice Chancellor Evaristo Riwa from Ardhi University sat down with Liu Ming from Chongqing Vocational Institute and Huang Zaisheng from Group Six International Ltd. The whole partnership goes...
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    Zanzibar spotlights digital ethics push

    Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi is showing up to wrap the Ethics and Human Rights Day celebrations at the trade fair grounds in Dimani after the government had to push back the global observance date. Minister Haroun Ali Suleiman says this year's theme centers on how digital systems can...
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    Zambia bets big on Dar port upgrade

    Zambia Cargo and Logistics Limited dropped 1.2 billion shillings on a reach stacker at Dar es Salaam port, and Deputy Minister David Kihenzile showed up to watch them flip the switch. The company went from moving 10,000 TEUs back in 2020 to over 50,000 by September, and CEO Vyonsi Manda says...
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    Arusha’s shining, investors take note

    Arusha is sitting on mad investment potential with Mount Meru towering overhead, plus access to Kilimanjaro, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and the rarest gemstone reserves on the continent. The region wants both local entrepreneurs and foreign money to jump into agriculture on super fertile land...
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    Cage farms feed wallets, wild fish thrive too

    Fish cages sitting in Lake Victoria are accidentally turning into breeding hotspots for wild species, according to farmers working the Chembaya Fish Farm Group near Mwanza. Mselikale Mkiju from the group says baby fish slip through the cage mesh and hang out where illegal fishing gear can't...
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    Tanzania’s peace praised, but scars remain

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres called Tanzania a peace reference point for Africa and the world after meeting with a delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Kombo in Dar es Salaam. The statement came as President Samia Suluhu Hassan pushed forward with an independent Commission...
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    Tanga youth get 250m digital loan boost to ditch despair

    Tanga Region is rolling out a youth forum to help young people actually access government loans through digital platforms after officials handed 250 million shillings to women, youth groups, and people with disabilities in Muheza District. Regional Commissioner Batilda Burian said the forum will...
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    Tanzania tourism bets big on nature to woo green travelers

    Tourism people in Tanzania gathered at an Arusha workshop to figure out how nature-based solutions could actually work in the industry without going broke. The CEO roundtable teamed up with conservation groups to push operators toward stuff like community conservation projects, fixing up coastal...
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    Tanzania revs up Lake Tanganyika as DRC trade superhighway

    Tanzania dumped a bunch of money into fixing up Lake Tanganyika ports and shipyards because it wanted the place to handle way more cargo from the Congo and neighboring countries. The port authority director says they spent over 100 billion shillings upgrading facilities in Kigoma, Katavi, and...
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    Dodoma grads urged to chase self-employment, not jobs

    The regional commissioner in Dodoma told fresh graduates that the government basically set them up to figure out their own employment situation by building roads and getting power to every village. Rosemary Senyamule handed out certificates to over 2,000 people who finished up at the College of...
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    Dodoma gets 10K subsidized stoves to slash charcoal use

    The Dodoma regional commissioner rolled out a program where residents can grab upgraded cookstoves at massively slashed prices because the government is covering 80 percent of the cost. Rosemary Senyamule said people in six districts will pay around 11,200 shillings instead of the usual 56,000...
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    Tanzania slashes birth cert wait to 48 hours flat

    Tanzania just rolled out a system where birth certificates get printed in two business days instead of the usual bureaucratic nightmare timeline. The registration agency launched the tech upgrade after President Samia Suluhu Hassan told them to speed things up, and the legal affairs minister...
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