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Tanzania’s financial markets show steady progress but gaps remain

Tanzania’s financial markets have made steady gains in stability, transparency and market depth, according to the recently launched Absa Africa Financial Markets Index (AFMI) 2025, but experts...

  1. Medicines, poison or just business? The boom of traditional remedies

  2. New import curbs position Tanzania to grow local industry

  3. Wasira: Government must lead reconciliation for national unity

  1. Fikira Ntomola makes the case for women in executive roles

  2. Sand quarry collapse kills five in Tanzania

  3. Tanzanian passenger delivers baby during transit at Mumbai airport

  4. High Court upholds life sentence over child sodomy

  5. Tanzania, Liberia forge maritime alliance to boost Africa’s blue economy

  6. Tabora concrete poles project 95pc complete, set to boost power network

Africa

Italian PM Meloni proposes climate‑shock debt suspension for African countries

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Italy and its African partners focused their latest talks on the continent’s debt burden, with Rome offering countries the option to suspend repayments...

  1. China to implement zero tariffs on imports from 53 African countries

  2. Zimbabwe cabinet backs bill to extend presidential terms to seven years

  3. US to send 200 troops to Nigeria to train African nation's military

  1. Rwanda shuts over 6,000 mosques and churches. Demands religious leaders hold theology degrees

  2. Exclusive: Trump ally Prince sent men, drones to help Congo's army secure strategic town

  3. South Africa to withdraw its troops from UN peacekeeping mission in Congo

  4. Drought spreads beyond Kenya's arid north, plunging herders into crisis

  5. 170 killed as suspected jihadists attack village in Nigeria

  6. Morocco urges residents to leave flood‑risk areas as evacuations exceed 108,000

World

Australia pledges $2.7 billion to progress nuclear submarine shipyard build

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas said the down payment would be spent on building enabling infrastructure for the shipyard. "This is just the beginning," Malinauskas said in the statement.

  1. Rubio to visit eastern Europe, bolster ties with pro-Trump leaders

  2. Dubai’s DP World boss resigns amid pressure over Epstein ties

  3. Trump says Iran regime change could be ‘best thing’ as second carrier heads to Middle East

  4. US military prepares for weeks-long operations against Iran as tensions rise

Business

Electric pickup entrant promises 86pc lower energy costs

A new entrant into Tanzania’s commercial vehicle market has pledged to slash per-kilometre operating energy costs by up to 86 percent, as the country receives its first fully electric dual-cab...

  1. Tanzania’s mining shifts from growth to execution

  2. Tanzania moves to protect startups amidst African funding slowdown in 2026

  3. Angolan President Lourenço to grace 2026 Sabasaba exhibitions

  4. Tourism sector calls for TRA technical forum, clear tax guidelines

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