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Early detection key to breast cancer treatment

Dar es Salaam. Early detection is critical to successful breast cancer treatment, but fear, stigma and uncertainty about where to seek medical care continue to discourage some women from screening. Speaking during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Aga Khan Hospital Oncology Department Programme Administrator Saidi Shukuru said treatment outcomes were generally better when the disease was […]

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Tanzania urges partners to back Vision 2050

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania has called on development partners to increase investment in skills, innovation and sustainable infrastructure to support the country’s long-term development ambitions under Vision 2050. Speaking in Dar es Salaam on October 23 at a ceremony marking the United Nations’ 81st anniversary, Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs Abdallah Ulega said achieving […]

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Tanzania: TZ Woos Agribusiness Investors

PRIME Minister Dr Mwigulu Nchemba has urged investors to tap Tanzania’s agricultural potential, highlighting opportunities across the value chain and access to a regional market of 170 million people in East and Central Africa. He said investment opportunities span crop processing and packaging, warehousing, cold-chain storage, transportation, digital services and financial services for farmers and […]

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Tanzania: Beyond Tradional Capital Mobilisation

Dar es Salaam — RECENT bond issuances send a compelling message: Tanzania has investors willing to commit substantial capital. The question is whether institutions are developing credible projects and financing structures capable of attracting it. Too often, development financing follows a familiar sequence: identify a project, estimate its cost, seek a budget allocation or bank […]

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Tanzania: Coffee Sector Urged to Drive Tanzania’s Vision 2050

Kilimanjaro — COFFEE stakeholders have been urged to boost production, strengthen trade and invest in research to increase the sector’s contribution to Tanzania’s ambition of becoming a 1 trillion US dollar, upper-middle-income economy under Vision 2050. Moshi District Commissioner, Mr Godfrey Mnzava, made the call while closing the seventh Kahawa Festival in Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region, […]

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NEMC takes autonomy push to parliamentary committees

Dodoma. The National Environment Management Council (NEMC) has taken its long-running quest for greater autonomy to Parliament, seeking legal changes to transform it into the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), with stronger powers to enforce environmental laws and facilitate investment. The proposed transformation is intended to strengthen the institution’s legal framework as Tanzania seeks to […]

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Tanzania: Kisiki Hai Programme Revives Farms, Improves Harvests

Dodoma — The initiative to regenerate over 32 million trees across 500,000 hectares of farmland undergoing restoration in various regions of the country is beginning to bear fruit, with farmers in Dodoma reporting improved maize harvests, better soil fertility and increased water retention following the regeneration of trees on their farms. Speaking in Dodoma over […]

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Ngorongoro wins Africa award for conservation excellence

Arusha. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) has won a continental award recognising its excellence in sustainable tourism and conservation management. The authority received the Excellence in Sustainable Tourism and Conservation Management Award at the Africa Business Forum & Awards 2026, held in Accra, Ghana, on October 17. The award recognises Ngorongoro’s efforts to conserve […]