The Citizen

Tanzania to receive Sh1.27 trillion World Bank loan to unlock infrastructure bottlenecks

Tanzania will receive $550 million (Sh1.26 trillion) loan from the World Bank to unlock the country’s critical road and airport bottlenecks.

Tanzania government increases civil servants’ allowances

The government on Friday, May 27, announced an increased travel and extra-duty allowances for its workers – the latest in a series of reviews of...

Why government should lift suspension on ICDs

In 2018 government prohibited through the Tanzania Shipping Agencies (Dry Port) Regulations from issuing of licences for ICDs located within 30...

Expectant woman's kidney goes missing after operation in Uganda

Police in Mubende District, in Western Uganda are investigating allegations that unscrupulous medics at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital...

You will only take home 33 percent in new pension scheme from July

Workers will now be paid 33 percent of their total savings in lump sum upon retiring, with the remaining 67 being reserved for monthly pension

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Samia chairs first meeting between CCM, Chadema leaders

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NCCR-Mageuzi suspends party chairman James Mbatia

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#EXCLUSIVE: Samia on her year in office, the future

Business

Alibaba profit slumps nearly 60% as tech crackdown, Covid bite

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said on Thursday that its profit fell by 59 percent in the last fiscal year, joining other tech firms that reported lacklustre results while grappling with...

NMB shareholders smiling all the way with Sh97 billion dividend hike

NMB Bank Plc shareholders will be all smiles next week as the lender’s board of directors......

French green activists block key TotalEnergies meeting

KPMG fined 3.3 million pounds over Rolls-Royce audit

AngloGold Ashanti vows to stay in Tanzania

Fast-rising Fintech Bankingly closes successful investment round for $11 Million  

High yielding banana varieties now released

Nsekela: Why CRDB will do well in DRC

OpEd

Two faces of relationships in this part of the globe

Skimming through agony letters in a newspaper last Sunday, I stumbled upon an interesting complaint by a young female. Still in her twenties, she was frustrated with the constant search for a...

They didn’t die when boat capsized, so they aren’t victims; they’re survivors

Before me is the Friday, May 20 edition of the tabloid closely associated with this columnist......

WANTED: MORE SUPPORT FOR LOCAL INNOVATORS

An important lesson from Djibouti in strategic self-help

Why Kenya doesn’t need DP post

WANTED: MORE PLAYERS IN VEHICLE CNG CONVERSION

Are the poor getting hungrier?

Museveni and Samia need to call the dogs off Eacop project

News

Tanzania government increases civil servants’ allowances

The government on Friday, May 27, announced an increased travel and extra-duty allowances for its workers – the latest in a series of reviews of the public servant benefits.

Tanzania to receive Sh1.27 trillion World Bank loan to unlock infrastructure bottlenecks

Tanzania will receive $550 million (Sh1.26 trillion) loan from the World Bank to unlock the......

Expectant woman's kidney goes missing after operation in Uganda

Russian lawmakers in hot water for urging Putin to end Ukraine conflict

Zelensky to address EU summit as oil sanction plan stalls

Ukraine centre stage as Prague recalls Nazi assassination

Liverpool's Thiago, Fabinho declared fit for Champions League final

AKDN dishes out Sh188 million subsidy to entrepreneurs

International

Zelensky to address EU summit as oil sanction plan stalls

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak via videolink with EU leaders on Monday as the bloc struggles to agree oil sanctions on Russia in the teeth of opposition from Hungary.

Russian lawmakers in hot water for urging Putin to end Ukraine conflict

Two Communist lawmakers in Russia's far east on Friday urged President Vladimir Putin to put an......

Ukraine centre stage as Prague recalls Nazi assassination

Moscow pours cold water on Italian peace plan for Ukraine

Macron urges Turkey to respect Finland, Sweden NATO choice

Two decades of deadly gun violence in US schools

UK's PM urged to quit over drunken 'Partygate' culture

Salvador Ramos: What we know about teenage Texas gunman

Africa

76 migrants killed after boat capsizes off Tunisian coast

Seventy-six migrants were presumed dead after their boat, which departed from Libya, sank off the coast of Tunisia, the United Nations migration agency said on Wednesday.