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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    Man gives land to cops, skips profit for peace

    A 79-year-old guy from Ijumbi Ward just handed over some land and a building to the Tanzania Police Force without asking for anything back. Prosper Rweyendera donated in Muleba District, and Senior Assistant Commissioner Blasius Chatanda showed up to accept it. The regional commander praised the...
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    Coast leaders told to ditch red tape, back Samia’s 100-day drive

    Coast Region officials got told to ditch the red tape and back President Samia Suluhu Hassan's 100-day promises after she got sworn in back in November. Regional Commissioner Abubakar Kunenge gathered district bosses, council chairs from all nine councils, and department heads to check progress...
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    Runaway lorry kills five bodaboda riders in Dodoma crash

    A truck with busted brakes plowed into a group of motorcycle taxi drivers chilling on the roadside near the University of Dodoma, and five bodaboda riders got killed, while one person ended up in the hospital. The driver of vehicle T 824 EKS bounced right after smashing into the group before...
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    Leaders mourn Jenista Mhagama, nation bids farewell to trailblazing MP

    Tanzania's Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi showed up at former Peramiho MP Jenista Mhagama's place in Dodoma to pay respects after she died at 58. He said the ex-health minister spent years repping her constituency while pushing development across the Ruvuma Region and working with the ruling...
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    Tanzanians back security boost, peace seen as key to progress

    Tanzanians are hyping up the government's security push after some post-election chaos back in October messed with the country's reputation as a stable spot in the region. Professor Humphrey Moshi from the University of Dar es Salaam said the whole thing was a wake-up call that peace keeps the...
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    DTB profit jumps 50 percent as SME focus pays off

    Diamond Trust Bank Tanzania bumped profits by half to 13 billion shillings during early 2025, while assets hit 1.89 trillion, mostly because they doubled down on small and medium businesses instead of chasing big corporate clients. CEO Ravneet Chowdhury said the bank gets in early with SMEs that...
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    Airtel powers up new towers, rural Tanzania gets connected

    Airtel Tanzania just dropped three new cell towers across Morogoro and Kilimanjaro to patch up dead zones that have been killing business and emergency comms for years. Morogoro scored two spots in Gairo District at Magoweko ward and Kihonda VETA, while Kilimanjaro got one at Sanya Juu in Hai...
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    Tanzania unveils 48-hour birth certs, digital push takes center stage

    Tanzania is letting people snag birth certificates in 48 hours through a new digital system that works on phones or computers. The Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency rolled out the platform to make things easier nationwide, and Constitution Minister Dr Juma Zuberi Homera said the...
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    Ruto pledges no data giveaway, vows Kenyans stay in control

    President Ruto basically told everyone to chill about the US health deal, saying Kenya's data stays locked down under local laws. He mentioned the Attorney General went over everything super carefully to make sure Kenyan regulations control any info that gets collected, and he's not letting...
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    NTSA flags fake site scam, Kenyans warned to steer clear

    NTSA is warning people about a fake website called Mverified that's been scamming Kenyans who need vehicle documents. The authority said the site doesn't belong to them, and they're telling anyone who got hit to file a police report since multiple people probably already lost cash. The real...
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    UK-Kenya defence pact in limbo as MPs demand clarity

    Kenyan lawmakers are pushing for immediate legal clarification on the Defense Cooperation Agreement with the UK after finding out the British Army Training Unit has been operating without proper legal backing. The committee led by Belgut MP Nelson Koech said the 2015 deal expired back in 2021...
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    Kenya parades Haiti mission heroes, homecoming with fanfare

    Kenya's planning to show off the cops who just got back from Haiti by having them march in the Jamhuri Day parade after wrapping up their 18-month deployment. Inspector General Douglas Kanja said the 230 officers landed back home earlier this week, and a fresh crew already touched down to take...
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    Omtatah slams brakes on US health deal, says Kenyans iced out

    Senator Okiya Omtatah went to court trying to block a massive health deal between Kenya and America that drops 208 billion shillings into Kenyan health systems over five years. He's saying the whole thing got signed without anyone asking the public or getting Parliament's thumbs-up, which...
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    Raburu sues over festival cash snag, no pay, no party

    Willis Raburu is dragging two companies to court over a festival deal gone sideways, and he wants 10 million shillings for the mess. His firm Steizon handled promo and event logistics for the Furaha City Festival that went down last year, cranking out 60-plus reels, over 100 posts, hitting a...
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    Youth front ditches middlemen as McOure shuts the door on political showboats

    Kasmuel McOure said his Broad-Based Youth Front is gonna start hitting up the government straight-up instead of going through politicians who ghosted them during last year's street protests. He called out some leaders who are trying to worm their way back into youth stuff without actually...
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    Murder suspect says yes to US extradition, no courtroom drama here

    An American guy sitting in a Gigiri police station told a Nairobi judge he's cool with getting shipped back to Minnesota to deal with murder and drug charges. The dude's been locked up since they grabbed him, and he basically said he wants to bounce back to the States ASAP without fighting the...
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    Rhinos get new digs as Kenya doubles down on security

    President William Ruto showed off Kenya's new mega rhino sanctuary in Tsavo West, and it's basically the biggest one on earth at this point. The spot in Taita Taveta County got kitted out with AI cameras, drones, aerial surveillance, encrypted radios, patrol rides, and like 300+ security people...
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    Raila Junior to restore iconic Hummer, museum move planned

    Raila Odinga Junior wants to fix up his late dad's legendary red Hummer and stick it in the Kango Ka Jaramogi museum, where the former Prime Minister got buried. The SUV became a whole political brand after Don Bosco Gichana donated it during the 2007 campaign, and crowds used to scream the...
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    Sonko bounces back, new party signals political comeback

    Mike Sonko got his National Economic Development Party officially registered and plans to drag his impeachment case back to the Supreme Court using fresh evidence from Nairobi MCAs who allegedly got pressured into voting him out. The former governor thinks he can still run for office because...
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    City robbers shot dead, police hunt for three on the run

    Plain-clothes cops just smoked two dudes who tried jacking someone outside a bank on Moi Avenue in Nairobi after the victim pulled cash from his account. Five guys rolled up on the customer and grabbed the money before trying to bounce, but officers already patrolling the area lit up two of them...
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