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Dar es Salaam ushers in a new era of New Year celebrations with regional midnight east experience

Dar es Salaam is preparing to welcome the New Year in a bold and redefined style

  1. VETA selects 14,433 applicants for 2026 vocational training programmes

  2. UTT AMIS plans regional expansion as assets hit Sh3.2tr

  3. South Africans who say they were scammed into joining Russia's war in Ukraine dig trenches, dodge bullets

  1. Russia backs Tanzania’s drive for trade, satellite, investment-led growth

  2. Mara court adjourns murder case against teacher, farmer

  3. Uganda restricts imports of Starlink equipment weeks before election

  4. NHIF unveils supplementary packages for January UHI rollout

  5. Five Mbarali villages to benefit from water infrastructure project

  6. Latra: Only 20pc of bus passengers using online ticketing

Africa

Last group of freed Nigerian schoolchildren to be reunited with their families

One hundred students were released on December 8, while 50 pupils escaped in the immediate hours after they were kidnapped.

  1. Guinea's Doumbouya looks to complete journey from coup leader to president

  2. UN demands Rwanda leave Congo, extends UN peacekeeping mission

  3. Nine killed, 10 injured in South Africa shooting, police hunt for suspects

  1. Africa’s power list: Billionaires to watch in 2026

  2. Prateek Suri unveils Maser’s multi-million-dollar philanthropy vision for Africa

  3. South Africa arrests Kenyans working on US refugee applications

  4. M23 says it will withdraw from seized Congo town after US request

  5. M23 says hundreds of Burundi soldiers captured in latest Congo offensive

  6. Oil tensions rise as Dangote targets Nigerian regulator over fuel imports

World

South Africans who say they were scammed into joining Russia's war in Ukraine dig trenches, dodge bullets

South African father-of-three Dubandlela was overcome with pride when his 20-year-old son signed up in July to receive elite training as a VIP bodyguard in Russia.

  1. US Epstein files release highlights Clinton

  2. They quit government to protest Trump. Now they are running for Congress to stop him

  3. Ex-Harvard morgue boss gets eight years for selling body parts

  4. Trump orders 'blockade' of sanctioned oil tankers leaving, entering Venezuela

Business

Manufacturers warn smuggled oil is crippling local industry

Industry players say illegally imported cooking oil, which often evades taxes, quality checks and regulatory inspections, is sold at lower prices and has distorted fair competition, making it...

  1. Startups pin hopes on Samia Sh200bn pledge

  2. Shilling steady on $175m injection, increased exports

  3. BoT injects $45 million into the forex market

  4. Tanzania regional trade surplus widens by 56 percent

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