News & Current Events

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...

Travel expert commends govt on overseas travel He told The Banker that more savings would be made by negotiating special travel packages with airlines for external trips. Khataw, who is also the...

DUBAI: Dubai Cares announced two new education programmes in Tanzania, as part of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives. A Dubai Cares delegation, led by Chief Executive Officer Tariq...

Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, and the highest freestanding mountain in the world, has been declared Africa's leading tourist attraction in 2016 during the World Travel Awards...

Dubai plans to build a tower that will stand higher than its Burj Khalifa, currently the world's tallest skyscraper, property developer Emaar said on Sunday. The viewing tower will cost around...

Two Chinese nationals, SU Ning (39) and Feny Guang Quan (51), yesterday appeared at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court charged with three counts of exporting Tanzanian currency notes to China...

One killed, 8 injured as South Korea train derails A South Korean passenger train that took a curved section of track at three times the recommended speed derailed Friday, killing an engineer...

Building collapse kills 5 children of one family in Jigawa state , Nigeria. ===================== Five children of same family were confirmed dead yesterday as a result of building collapse...

THE Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development, commonly known as 'Uongozi Institute' has been hailed for building the required capacity on leaders in the country. The Speaker...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA*) credit of US$65 million for the Tanzania Citizen-Centric Judicial Modernization and...

STATEMENT ON ELECTION RE-RUN IN ZANZIBAR The High Commissioners and Ambassadors to Tanzania of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the...

Total E & P Uganda general manager Adewale Fayemi The French global energy company Total has reaffirmed its commitment to invest in a crude oil pipeline from Uganda to the Tanzanian port of...

Huge sperm whale found dead on the beach in eastern China A huge sperm whale that measured out to be over 15 meters long and weighing 30 tons was found dead on the beaches of the town of Changsha...

Dawn Paley is one of the best journalists covering the Drug War in Latin America in the English language. Her work has been published in NACLA and many other international publications, covering...

Total SA has funds to build a pipeline linking oil fields in landlocked Uganda with a port on Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast, the Tanzanian government said, after its president met an official from...