Tanzania to host first ever Artemisia conference

Arusha. As global resistance to frontline malaria treatments rises, Tanzania is taking a leading role by hosting the inaugural International Symposium on Artemisia from October 8–10, 2025, in Arusha. The three-day event will bring together more...

Tanzanian opposition leader's treason trial opens weeks before election

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu will go on trial on Monday for treason, weeks before the East African country holds an election that his party has been barred from contesting. Lissu, who came second in the last...

How the World Bank’s approach to funding dam projects has shifted over the decades

Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank’s approach to development for many decades. From the bank’s early years in the 1960s and 1970s, large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams, power plants and transport networks were central to its...

Samia Friendly Stoves: Clean energy revolution arrives

DAR ES SALAAM: THEY don’t hiss, they don’t smoke and they don’t break your bank account. Welcome to the era of Samia Friendly Stoves that is an innovation so timely in the wake of championing clean energy drive. In elaboration, Ilala District...

Morocco ranks mid-level globally in 2025 financial and digital fraud risk index

Morocco ranked 50th worldwide in the 2025 Global Fraud Index, with an overall score of 2.38, placing it in the “grey zone” neither among the most exposed countries nor the most protected, according to the British firm “SamSub,” which specializes...

How Tanzania's Samia Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan. [FILE] As Tanzania’s national elections approach, a familiar humdrum of coverage has emerged. It goes like this. In its crackdowns, censorship and harassment of the opposition, Tanzania is becoming...

Aviation powers Tanzania’s growth and strengthens Africa’s connectivity: IATA

Tanzania’s aviation industry has emerged as a key driver of economic growth and regional integration in Africa, contributing $3.8 billion to the country’s economy and supporting over 710,000 jobs, according to a new report from the International...

Insurance market grows 20pc as TIRA launches Bima House

DODOMA: TANZANIA’S insurance market has recorded robust growth, with Gross Written Premium (GWP) rising by 20.2 per cent to 1.52tri/- in 2024, up from 1.24tri/- in 2023, reflecting the sector’s expanding contribution to the national economy. The...

Samia unveils 10 pledges to transform northern Tanzania if elected

Manyara. The CCM presidential candidate, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, has announced ten key pledges to accelerate development in northern Tanzania if elected, covering infrastructure, agriculture, education, healthcare, and industrial growth....

Writers on the Range: Jane Goodall told us never give up

In her “Last Words” interview that was broadcast after her death, Jane Goodall talked about her calm in the face of “the dark times we are living in now.” She devoted her life to battling for conservation but attributed this serenity to the time...

Samia to Butiama residents: Nyerere’s dream for Tanzania now a reality

Butiama. The CCM presidential candidate, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, has declared that her government is realising the dreams of the Father of the Nation, the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, through the completion of major strategic projects,...

Key Sectors Driving Investment in Tanzania

By Africa Risk Control (ARC) – Tanzania has in recent years made major strides in positioning itself as a destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) by streamlining regulations, improving infrastructure, and offering incentives in key...

Mission of hope: First graduation in Tanzanian village

The Druffner family has been traveling to Bwambo Village, Tanzania, for nearly two decades. Many parishioners in the Diocese of Superior and Catholics throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota have supported their work in Africa. (Submitted photo) This...

Small Business Highlight: Pollinator Chocolate creates tropical confectionary in the heart of the Rockies

Mark Burrows: So this is the, the noise I was talking about, like it's a vibrating table that takes these won be bonbons, but she fills them with chocolate and that's what doing here. But then she has to dump all the chocolate out the vibrating...

Jane Goodall cause of death revealed after chimpanzee expert found dead aged 91

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UNEP launches US$100 million programme to accelerate climate, nature action

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), together with the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), have officially launched the Net-Zero Nature-Positive Accelerator...

Feature: Tanzanian initiative helps deaf women break silence through entrepreneurship

by Xinhua writers Hua Hongli, Lucas Liganga DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- In Tanzania's bustling port city of Dar es Salaam, a quiet yet powerful movement is redefining opportunities for women with hearing disabilities. Tanzania Joy Women...

Jane Goodall’s Cause Of Death Revealed

Dr. Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist, chimpanzee researcher and animal-welfare advocate, died of cardiac arrest, TMZ reports, citing her death certificate from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Goodall’s death was announced Oct. 1...

Patrick Mabedi named Yanga coach

Tanzanian Premier Soccer League side Young Africans (Yanga) Sports Club have appointed Malawian Patrick Mabedi as interim coach. This follows the sacking of head coach Romain Folz, just hours after the team lost 1-0 to Silver Strikers in the Caf...

Social media aids rise of online business brokers

Dar es Salaam. For decades, Kariakoo has been Tanzania’s heartbeat of trade, a bustling market where traders and buyers haggle over clothes, shoes, and cosmetics. But today, a smartphone has become more powerful than a shop in Kariakoo. With only...