WHEN I recently asked the Minister of State in the President’s Office responsible for investments and planning, Prof. Kitila Mkumbo, about the people’s reservations and the government measures against...
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REGIONAL DEMOCRACY IN PERIL AS KENYA’S KARUA AND COLLEAGUES FACE DEPORTATION FROM TANZANIA
KENYAN opposition leader and senior counsel Martha Karua, along with fellow lawyers, Lynn Ngugi, and Gloria Kimani, were detained at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,...
KATIKA soko maarufu la Kariakoo jijini Dar es Salaam, hali ya sintofahamu imegubika biashara huku wafanyabiashara wazawa wakilalama kuzidiwa na wageni, hususan Wachina, wanaodaiwa kutawala kila hatua ya mnyororo...
WHEN President Samia Suluhu Hassan stood before a crowd of journalists at the Super Dome in Dar es Salaam on May 5, 2025, her message was loud and clear....
IN the bustling maze of Kariakoo, where Dar es Salaam pulses with commerce, livelihoods are negotiated daily—not just in Tanzanian shillings, but in sweat, hustle, and increasingly, in the...
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CHINA’S QUIET TAKEOVER OF TANZANIA’S COMERCIAL HEART SIGNALS SYSTEMIC BETRAYAL AGAINS LOCAL TRADERS
WHEN a Tanzanian parliamentary committee recently exposed the extent of foreign dominance in Kariakoo, the country’s busiest commercial market, one statistic was particularly jarring: only 9.2% of the 9,380...
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PRESIDENTIAL JOKES: TRUMP WISHES TO LEAD THE VATICAN, AS MAGUFULI HAD WISHED TO LEAD ANGELS
IN 2016 when then Tanzanian President John Magufuli told supporters at a public ally that, upon his death, he hoped to lead angels in heaven, many took it as...
AS Tanzania approaches its pivotal October 2025 general election, the country finds itself retreating from a rare but significant moment of political détente. That moment was shaped by the...
NIMESIKIA mara nyingi baadhi ya wachambuzi wakitoa hoja kuwa Rais Samia Suluhu Hassan anahujumiwa makusudi na watu walio karibu naye au wanaonufaika na zogo la kisiasa nchini. Kwa haraka,...
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OUTCRY AS CATHOLIC LEADER ATTACKED IN TANZANIA AMID RISING TENSIONS OVER CHURCH’S ROLE IN POLITICS
Fr. Charles Kitima, the Secretary General of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC), was brutally attacked and seriously injured on Tuesday evening at his residence in Kurasini, Dar es Salaam....