Vol 50 No 25 | TANZANIA Tarnished halo 18th December 2009 This once-favoured destination for aid and investment is now struggling with financial scandals and budget shortfalls The sheen is wearing off Tanzania's image as the friendliest East African country for investors and foreign aid agencies. Politics in the lead up to next year's legislative...
Vol 50 No 25 | TANZANIA Banking on it 18th December 2009 The credibility of the Tanzanian government's reform drive depends mostly on the Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, Benno Ndulu. The country is suffering both from a financial...
Vol 50 No 13 | TANZANIAECONOMY Kikwete's bailout package 26th June 2009 Tanzania, the second largest of the big-three members of the East African Community, has presented a budget with a bullish message designed to spend its way out of...
Vol 50 No 2 | TANZANIA Guards for sale 23rd January 2009 Young Tanzanians conscripted for their military National Service may find themselves doing commercial security work. The government says it wants to reduce youth unemployment and increase competition in...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 | TANZANIASOUTH KOREA The next great land sale 19th October 2009 Seoul is trying to buy into Tanzania's farm sector shortly after Daewoo precipitated a political confrontation over the same issue in Madagascar South Korea is desperately trying to manage the political fallout as it negotiates the acquisition of 100,000 hectares of farmland with the Tanzanian government. It is trying to avoid a...
Vol 49 No 24 | TANZANIA Corruption credentials 28th November 2008 Tanzania’s judges have piles of files to read over the Christmas holiday. A flurry of former ministers, high-profile businessmen and ex-employees of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) were...
Vol 49 No 22 | TANZANIA Corruption countdown 31st October 2008 At last President Kikwete is pushing miscreants to return monies stolen from the central bank some might even be prosecuted Judgement day is coming for those individuals and companies who benefited from a 133 billion Tanzania shilling (US$117 million) fraud at the Bank of Tanzania (Central Bank),...
Vol 49 No 22 | TANZANIA Islamic alliance 31st October 2008 The government proposes membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference and splits national opinion Foreign Minister Bernard Membe's announcement that the government was considering joining the Organisation of Islamic Conference has reopened a national controversy. A decade ago, then President Ali Hassan...
Vol 49 No 13 | TANZANIA Graft at the top 20th June 2008 Soon after his December 2005 inauguration, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete replied to critics who said he was too soft to run a country bogged down in corruption: ‘I...
Vol 49 No 4 | TANZANIA Cleaning the stables 15th February 2008 Parliament exposed the Prime Minister's wrongdoing and now the President has sacked nine ministers Kizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda, who served as Private Secretary to three Tanzanian presidents, Julius Nyerere, Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Benjamin Mkapa, is President Jakaya Kikwete's surprising choice as...