Zanzibar topped the World Travel Awards 2022 rankings, beating some of Africa’s best, including Cape Town, South Africa, Diani, Kenya, and Dakhla, Morocco. The Indian Ocean Island, a semi-autonomous entity within Tanzania is a popular destination for tourists, with tourism accounting for 25% of its GDP, ahead of agricultural activity. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of…
Zanzibar topped the World Travel Awards 2022 rankings, beating some of Africa’s best, including Cape Town, South Africa, Diani, Kenya, and Dakhla, Morocco. The Indian Ocean Island, a semi-autonomous entity within Tanzania is a popular destination for tourists, with tourism accounting for 25% of its GDP, ahead of agricultural activity. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of…
A senior Pakistani journalist, Mr Arshad Sharif, was shot dead in Nairobi on Sunday night under unclear circumstances. Early reports indicate that Mr Sharif was travelling back to Nairobi from Magadi with his driver when he met his death at a police road block. The car had been flagged down by officers, though the police are yet to officially comment…
A senior Pakistani journalist, Mr Arshad Sharif, was shot dead in Nairobi on Sunday night under unclear circumstances. Early reports indicate that Mr Sharif was travelling back to Nairobi from Magadi with his driver when he met his death at a police road block. The car had been flagged down by officers, though the police are yet to officially comment…
Global food systems have been battered by overlapping crises in recent years. Key among these are the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukraine war and extreme weather events resulting from climate change. These have resulted in forced migration, loss of employment, climate stress, loss of biodiversity, and economic instability. In Africa, which is home to 1.5 billion people, these shocks and…
In February, TotalEnergies and its partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed a final investment decision with Uganda and Tanzania to kick-start investments worth more than $10 billion to produce and export Uganda’s crude Uganda’s national oil company (UNOC) expects to secure the funding for a $5 billion crude pipeline that the European Union is opposed to, by early…
In February, TotalEnergies and its partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation signed a final investment decision with Uganda and Tanzania to kick-start investments worth more than $10 billion to produce and export Uganda’s crude Uganda’s national oil company (UNOC) expects to secure the funding for a $5 billion crude pipeline that the European Union is opposed to, by early…
Dar es Salaam. Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition 2022 has named a Tanzanian among the ten most outstanding African entrepreneurs, being the first time since its inception three years ago.Mr Elia Timotheo, founder and CEO of East Africa Fruits Company, and nine other entrepreneurs have qualified for next month’s grand finale in which they will share a $1.5…
The African Union (AU)-led peace talks to end the bloody fighting between the Ethiopian government and separatist Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is scheduled for Monday, 24 October in South Africa, the Ethiopian government announced on Thursday
TANZANIA’S economy is anticipated to bravely surf past the looming global recession waves, thanks to a strong laid down macroeconomic policy. Several economists said that given the country’s current economic situation, which received notable praise from the World Bank, the impact of the recession will not be severe compared to peer economies. Early this week, the World Bank Vice-President…