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Tanzania

Magufuli embroiled in unseaworthy ferry saga?

Controversy is growing around the passenger ferry MV Dar es Salaam which is supposed to ply the route from Dar [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2016

Zanzibaris want to take Dar to court

Zanzibari employees of the defunct first incarnation of the East [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2016

ZLS considers oil bill unconstitutional

The President of Zanzibar, Ali Mohamed Shein, who is also [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2016

Intra Energy mining group picks Sinohydro to help boost power output

The Australian firm plans to increase coal production to give a push to construction of a power plant with the Chinese concern.

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Ecolog intent on roping in all of East Africa’s oil producers

The United Arab Emirates logistics firm Ecolog has pulled out [...]

Subscribers only Energy 15.11.2016

Chris Chae, Ban Ki-moon’s strange ally

Chris Incheul Chae, a businessman with dual South Korean and US nationality, has accused South Korean diplomats in Dar es [...]

Subscribers only 11.11.2016

Magufuli wants improve relations with Guangzhou

President John Magufuli wants one of the two aircraft the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.11.2016

Security is the two presidents' overwhelming concern

During his visit to Nairobi on 31 October, Tanzanian President [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.11.2016

Threat of sanctions against Dangote

The Tanzanian government is particularly displeased because the Dangote Group [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.11.2016

CRDB Bank cajoles small farmers

The Tanzanian commercial bank CRDB Bank is currently looking to [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.11.2016

Exotix looking for explorers in need of deep-pocket partners

The investment bank Exotix Partners has just been retained by Swala to raise $120 million and is hunting for new projects.

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

James Andilile bounces back in a different incarnation

The former acting managing director of Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp (TPDC), James Andilile is expected to become the first chief [...]

Subscribers only Energy 01.11.2016

Dispute over Lake Nyassa

The Tanzanian government is preparing a response to the launch of the Geological Mapping and Mineral Assessment Project (GEMMAP) in [...]

Free access Politics 28.10.2016

Vietnamese company Viettel wins African socialists

The Vietnamese telecoms operator is keen to conquer new markets in East Africa, where it has political as well as economic support.

Subscribers only Business 28.10.2016

Sumitomo wants to electrify its gas activity

The energy minister Sospeter Muhongo constantly reminds his staff that all gas-fired production of electricity should be selected via a [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.10.2016

Zanzibar Export Processing Zone has fallen into decay

The plan to turn Zanzibar into the "Dubai of East [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.10.2016

Catalyst Principal Partners continues making inroads

The firm Catalyst Principal Partners (CPP) is about to launch [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.10.2016

Mobisol has found backing for its solar energy project

The German company Mobisol, which has already installed some 3,000 [...]

Subscribers only Business 28.10.2016

Fairtrade offers certification for small-scale miners

Three years after kicking off its project to certify small-scale [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.10.2016

Sahara Energy vaunts electricity expertise to get back into government’s favour

Excluded from a contract to supply fuel by Dar es-Salaam, the Nigerian group is seeking to keep foot in the door by proposing power project.

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

Edenville spies chance to move from coal to electricity

Edenville Energy, which owns several mining licenses in Tanzania, is determined to make the most of a ban on coal [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.10.2016

South Korean investors arrive in strength

Tanzania and South Korea have been strengthening their ties since 2014, at the expense of the former socialist alliance between Dar es Salaam and Pyongyang.

Subscribers only Business 14.10.2016

Ayisi Makatiani, the donors’ darling

The Kenyan businessman Ayisi Makatiani can count on the International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank) to develop [...]

Subscribers only 14.10.2016

CUF blocked by internal splits

One of the main opposition parties, the Civic United Front [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.10.2016

Glencore under pressure from the government

The Tanzanian government has informed Xstrata Nickel (a subsidiary of [...]

Subscribers only Business 14.10.2016

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