Tanzania

300 finance champions 2023

James Mwangi, Shola Akinlade, Ruth Zaipuna… Champions of Financial Inclusion

Access to banking services is a key factor in economic transformation.

African Development Bank headquarters in Abidjan. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

'immense opportunity'

How East Africa’s investment drive trickles down the rest of continent The whole continent is bound to benefit from the East African region’s impressive run.
View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.
eacopmap1 © Satellite image provided by by the Earth Insight research group in the US shows EACOP environmental impacts in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park.

Ripple Effect

Premium badgeNew satellite images show potential EACOP impact may be worse than feared Satellite images chart EACOP oil pipeline impacts in Uganda, Tanzania and the DRC.

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View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.
eacopmap1 © Satellite image provided by by the Earth Insight research group in the US shows EACOP environmental impacts in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park.

Ripple Effect

Premium badgeNew satellite images show potential EACOP impact may be worse than feared Satellite images chart EACOP oil pipeline impacts in Uganda, Tanzania and the DRC.
Zanzibar´s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi (C) during his inauguration ceremony in 2020. Wil he do this again in 2025? (Patrick Meinhardt/AFP)

archipelago arguments

Premium badgeIn Zanzibar, President Mwinyi faces legitimacy test ahead of 2025 election A British property developer suing Zanzibar for a land lease gone bad could taint the prospects for Mwinyi, the archipelago’s president, for 2025.

Tanzania top stories

View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.
eacopmap1 © Satellite image provided by by the Earth Insight research group in the US shows EACOP environmental impacts in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park.

Ripple Effect

Premium badgeNew satellite images show potential EACOP impact may be worse than feared Satellite images chart EACOP oil pipeline impacts in Uganda, Tanzania and the DRC.
Zanzibar´s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi (C) during his inauguration ceremony in 2020. Wil he do this again in 2025? (Patrick Meinhardt/AFP)

archipelago arguments

Premium badgeIn Zanzibar, President Mwinyi faces legitimacy test ahead of 2025 election A British property developer suing Zanzibar for a land lease gone bad could taint the prospects for Mwinyi, the archipelago’s president, for 2025.

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Zanzibar´s President Hussein Ali Mwinyi (C) during his inauguration ceremony in 2020. Wil he do this again in 2025? (Patrick Meinhardt/AFP)

archipelago arguments

Premium badgeIn Zanzibar, President Mwinyi faces legitimacy test ahead of 2025 election A British property developer suing Zanzibar for a land lease gone bad could taint the prospects for Mwinyi, the archipelago’s president, for 2025.
FILE PHOTO: Terminal tractors line up to load containers into a cargo ship at DP World’s fully automated Terminal 2 at Jebel Ali Port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 27, 2018. REUTERS/ Hamad I Mohammed

‘shrouded in secrecy’

Premium badgeTanzania in a bind over DP World concessional deal In a move that has attracted widespread criticism, the East African nation has entered into an agreement allowing concessional management of its harbo...
Transit trucks go through an electronic weighbridge at the border crossing point between Kenya and Tanzania in Namanga, Tanzania July 19, 2019. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

Wheels of Trade

Premium badgeKenya-Tanzania border friction highlights need for digital approach A plan to digitalise 30 borders in 30 African countries by 2030 could cost around $600 million. What does this mean for the future of trade in Africa?
A Maasai warrior nuzzles with the favourite camel of his herd that grazes on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. (Reuters)

pastoral paradise

Tanzania leads the way in Africa’s livestock renaissance Tanzania’s success in the livestock sector is the result of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s focus on empowering women, youth and smallholder farmers.
daystar_badagry005 © Daystar panels at Badagry in Nigeria. Photo supplied.

Hybrid Path

Premium badgeShell’s Daystar to follow South African solar expansion with Tanzania Daystar started in Nigeria and opened South African offices in Johannesburg in August. It plans to be operating in Tanzania by the end of the year.
Tanzania’s Minister for Works and Transport Makame Mbarawa in an unloaded carriage for the Tanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) (Photo by Ericky BONIPHACE / AFP)

port politics

Premium badgeDP World meets Tanzania’s interests of expanding trade links, says minister of works Makame Mbarawa says an agreement between the logistics company and Tanzania is a framework and commercial terms have not been agreed.