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Friday, 6 March 2026 · Established 2010 · Tanzania & East Africa Agriculture Nohémie Mawaka Doesn’t Sell Africa a Dream — She Sells Receipts Nohémie Mawaka left the…
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Maida Waziri: The Case for Cottage Industry in Tanzania
EXCLUSIVE • FOOD SECURITY • GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT The $100 Billion Harvest: In the largest expansion of its agricultural transformation agenda since its celebrated debut at the World Economic…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 1st, 2026 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Tanzania Activates Northern, Central, and Mtwara Agricultural Corridors in Biggest Agri Push Since SAGCOT First-phase consultations spanning…
In rural Kenya, where nearly 40% of the population still lacks improved sanitation, an affordable Japanese-designed toilet solution is quietly transforming communities — one pit latrine at a…
Veteran agricultural policy hand steps up to lead Tanzania’s private sector agriculture apex body at a pivotal moment The Agricultural Council of Tanzania (ACT) has a new Executive…
ENERGY & DEVELOPMENT Project Steering Committee declares Africa’s largest hydropower project 100% complete as national power generation surges from 1,600 MW to over 4,000 MW — with new…
A fifteen-year experiment in public-private partnership, once confined to a single corridor in southern Tanzania, is now being scaled across the nation — and its early results suggest…
Agriculture · Trade · Policy The Invisible Billions: How East Africa’s Agro-Processing Wealth Vanishes from Farm Budgets — and Why It Matters for 100 Million Farmers A grain…
Kilimokwanza.org Research Analysis | February 2026 Executive Summary On 17 December 2025, Japan’s Asahi Group Holdings announced an agreement to acquire Diageo’s 65% controlling stake in East African…
In Mtwara, where the Indian Ocean meets some of Africa’s richest agricultural potential, leaders from Lindi, Ruvuma, and Mtwara delivered a unified message: the era of cashew dependency…
In Arusha, at the foot of Mount Meru, Tanzania’s most export-ready agricultural regions united under a single corridor framework , with a mandate to build world-class cold chains,…
From Singida to the shores of Lake Victoria, Tanzania’s largest agricultural corridor came alive as Regional Commissioners, government leaders, and private sector stakeholders declared: “We have received the…
DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzania is sharpening its economic ambitions. The Government has announced that the Minority Interests Forum 2026, organized by the Office of the Treasury Registrar…
NEWS FEATURE | AGRICULTURE & INDUSTRY Tanzania Charts Bold Path to Cooking Oil Self-Sufficiency National Strategy Targets $1.37 Billion in Export Revenue Through Palm Oil and Sunflower Expansion…
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – In aN achievement that underscores the rapid digitization of Tanzania’s economy, Watu Simu has financed one million smartphones across the country, marking a…
In mid-February 2026, an agronomist from Movement For Community Development (MCODE) visited a smallholder farm in Ruvuma, southern Tanzania. What they encountered was unambiguous: a uniform, vigorous stand…
SONGEA, RUVUMA – The Ruvuma Regional Commissioner’s office has unveiled a comprehensive strategic plan to elevate soybeans into a premier commercial and food security crop. In an official…
Kilimokwanza.org R7 The African digital narrative of the mid-2020s is dominated by a bipolar hegemony: the “Silicon Savannah” of Kenya and the “Yabacon Valley” of Nigeria. These two…
East Africa Financial Review | Special Report Microfinance • Rural Development • Tanzania The Bank That Bets on the Poor How VisionFund Tanzania is quietly dismantling a century…
By Kilimokwanza.org Correspondent | Kilolo District, Iringa The morning air over Kilolo District carried the kind of quiet that precedes something significant. Arranged across a stretch of land…
DODOMA — Tanzania’s Permanent Secretary for Agriculture, Mr. Gerald Mweli, met with Ms. Frauke Jongbluth, the World Bank’s Food and Agriculture Manager, at Government City in Mtumba, Dodoma,…
From Barren to Bountiful: How One Farm in the Southern Highlands Is Writing Tanzania’s Agricultural Future The name says everything. Rutuba — Swahili for soil fertility. But twenty…