By Louis Kalumbia Dar es Salaam. Groundnut is among the widely grown crops in Tanzania. If more investment is made in the production of the crop, it could play a significant role in addressing the country’s edible oil shortage as well as contribute to increased income. Apart from export, groundnuts…
By Zephania Ubwani Arusha. A unified clearing facility at Rusumo on the Tanzania/Rwanda border registered an increased volume of traded goods even at the height of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020/21. The One Stop Border Post (OSBP) operated by the two countries, saw goods worth Sh51.4 billion exiting Tanzania to Rwanda…
A new survey of more than four thousand five hundred young people in Africa including Nigeria provides yet another damning verdict of how the continent’s most populous nation is heading in the wrong direction despite its leader Muhammadu Buhari saying the country is in a better place today than he…
Five members of the United States Senate have written to the United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urging him to restore Nigeria’s designation as a Country of Particular Concern for religious intolerance following the recent spate of killings of Christians in the country, a move that could translate to…
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. Players in political science and democracy in Tanzania have commended President Samia Suluhu Hassan for her resolve to strengthening democracy based on the pillars of Reconciliation, Resiliency, Reforms and Rebuilding which she termed as 4Rs. In an opinion pieced she penned and got published…
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. Players in political science and democracy in Tanzania have commended President Samia Suluhu Hassan for her resolve to strengthening democracy based on the pillars of Reconciliation, Resiliency, Reforms and Rebuilding which she termed as 4Rs. In an opinion pieced she penned and got published…
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) announced that it has collected Sh22.28 trillion in the 2021/22 financial year in a period from July 2021 to June 2022. According to a statement, the amount collected was equivalent to 99.22 percent of the intended Sh22.45 trillion collection…
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) announced that it has collected Sh22.28 trillion in the 2021/22 financial year in a period from July 2021 to June 2022. According to a statement, the amount collected was equivalent to 99.22 percent of the intended Sh22.45 trillion collection…
By Daily Monitor Ugandan government officials are heaving a sigh of relief after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) opted against placing the country on a blacklist. The Paris-based FATF is an intergovernmental organisation created in 1989 at the behest of the G7 political forum to combat money laundering. On…
By Nation Africa The prices of popular products such as dairy, meat, alcohol, cereals, cotton, and textiles imported into the East Africa region are set to rise substantially after a newly raised tax charge took effect yesterday. In a deal struck on May 5, 2022, by the partner states of…