News & Current Events

The sentence was imposed by Senior Resident Magistrate Pili Mande at Manyoni District Court in Singida Region, after convicting the poachers, Bernard Wilson, alias Jacob and Hamis Athanas, alias...

Aircraft wreckage potentially from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been found on an island off the east African coast, an Australian official said. Transport minister Darren Chester, who...

Should sugar speculators be allowed to store sugar and wait for the price to rise before selling there stock? Where exactly is the line between encouraging the business of speculation, and...

The burning of a stockpile of ivory in Kenya recently was a wasteful and ridiculous act arranged by a self-righteous attention seeking conservationist and politicians. The result is the opposite...

​ South African music icon, Yvonne Chaka-Chaka, has urged the leaders in the continent to emulate Father of the Nation Mwalimu Julius Nyerere by fighting for the interests of their people...

It is the period in which a man who has turned a thorn in the flesh of the prevailing Isles’ political status quo, Maalim Seif Sharrif Hamad emerged to the heights of politics and the period in...

By Loveday Wright Less than a year after President Magufuli took office, Tanzania is already gaining influence among its neighbors and moving away from its reputation as a lone ranger in the...

France, through its International Development Agency (AFD), has granted 65 million Euros (about 161.5bn/) as a concessional loan for the modernisation and extension of the Julius Nyerere...

DAR ES SALAAM, May 20, 2016 – While Tanzania continues to record strong economic performance, approximately 12 million of its citizens still live in dire poverty, according to the World Bank’s...

Sal Davis and Me ''I was working with the BBC Swahili Service and I was producing a program called “Sports Wiki Hii” which in means “Sports This Week.” Ali came to fight Henry Cooper in London...

Addressing journalists yesterday, the Dar es Salaam Special Zonal Police Commander, Mr Simon Sirro, said the police force was undertaking measures to check crime in the wake of recent wanton...

Over the past several years, efforts have been made to persuade both national and international corporations to locate their businesses Tanzania. However, one of the challenges that Tanzania faces...

CDC Warns – Hair Bands From China Made of Used Condoms Could Spread Std’s! How would you react if you were told that the hair band you are wearing is made of a used condom? Well, that’s actually...

Principal Judge Shaban Lila The Tanzanian judicial system has outlined a plan for improving its legal system through the development and application of ICT solutions. The newly appointed...

Global investors and funding institutions in control of more than US$200 billion US dollars will meet in Dar es Salaam in July for a three-day investment forum to explore business and investment...

BY LAURA SECORUN PALETMAY The Arusha airport looks like a huge souvenir shop with an airstrip attached. Thousands of tourists pass through here on their way to Tanzania’s famed national parks and...

From world 3rd fastest growing economy, Nigeria drops out of Top 15 in Africa Having enjoyed blissful growth over the past decade, Nigeria was one of the fastest growing economies in the world...

Some of the most promising prospects in all of Africa today are no doubt to be found on the East African oil frontier. Up to the very recent past, oil and gas in East Africa has mostly been...

Barclays Bank has appointed the Kenya Chief Operating Officer Abdi Mohamed to replace Kihara Maina, the managing director for the Tanzania subsidiary. Barclays Bank of Tanzania made the...

The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it estimates Tanzania’s economy expanded by 7 percent last year and forecast growth to be close to that again in 2016. The IMF said in a...