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  SPECIAL REPORT | Tanzania is courting investment in transport, logistics and technology as it seeks the next phase of growth. Lennox Yieke reports. At $90.14bn, Tanzania’s 2025 GDP is roughly 36% higher than the $66.07bn recorded in 2020 and nearly double the $47.41bn figure reported in 2015. The economy …

DAR ES SALAAM | Xinhua |  Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Saturday inaugurated the 2,115-megawatt Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant, a landmark project expected to strengthen electricity supply and accelerate industrial and economic development. Hassan inaugurated the plant in Rufiji District in Coast Region, saying the new generation capacity should …

                                  COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | Across Africa, informed senior citizens know that President Yoweri Museveni is passionate about integrating the continent if we are to survive in this crudely competitive capitalist world order. …

Tanzania has a blueprint to grow its economy tenfold by 2050, but faces multiple entrenched challenges if it is to prove realistic   NEWS ANALYSIS | LENNOX YIEKE |  Tanzania has set its sights on becoming a $1 trillion, upper‑middle‑income economy by mid-century. Under a long‑term plan known as Vision …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Catholic Church’s process to have Tanzania’s founding president, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, recognised as a saint is moving forward, with officials now interrogating witnesses about his life, faith and conduct as they gather evidence about his reputation for holiness. Bishop Henry Mchamungu, Auxiliary Bishop of …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | URN | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania have endorsed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at reshaping East Africa’s energy economy by shifting the region’s focus from crude oil exports to building an integrated regional energy and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | NCBA Group Plc has posted a 12.2% increase in first-half profit as East Africa’s economic recovery fueled lending and customer deposits, helping the regional lender offset a sharp increase in provisions set aside against potentially bad loans. Net income rose to KSh12.4 billion in …

    East Africa’s shrinking mountain glaciers on three peaks in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will soon be no more. The 2025 State of the Climate in Africa report (page 13) estimates that the ice areas on Mt Kenya, the continent’s second-highest peak, have shrunk 96% in the past 115 years. The …

  From heritage and tourism to digital innovation and youth enterprise, Kiswahili can position Tanzania at the center of Africa’s rising cultural economy.   COMMENT | TOSHI BWANA |  In an era increasingly defined by economic competition, technological disruption and cultural influence, the most successful nations are no longer merely …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) has announced the cancellation of two international friendly matches involving the Uganda Cranes that had been scheduled to take place in Morocco this month. The Uganda Cranes were set to face Tanzania on June 5, 2026, and Madagascar on …