$120bn TRADE FINANCE GAP IS HOLDING BACK AFRICAN GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES, CAUTIONS STANBIC BANK

Standard Bank Head of Oil and Gas Paul Eardley-Taylor speaking about the opportunities resulting from Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas project, during a breakfast session held in Dar es Salaam, recently. Stanbic Bank is committed to facilitating investment in the oil and gas sector to promote industrialization and economic growth.

Despite the recent prediction by the World Bank[1] that economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa will slow in 2015, the region is still home to one of the fastest-growing middle class in the world. As a result, there are vast opportunities on the continent for progressive African entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take advantage of.

Charles Brewer, Managing Director of DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), says one sector providing plentiful prospects is the agricultural...

Stanbic Bank Tanzania Ltd is a member of the Standard Bank Group. 

Standard Bank Group has been chosen as the Best Bank in Africa by Global Finance magazine. In addition, Standard Bank Group received the country awards for Angola, South Africa and Uganda in Global Finance’s World’s Best Emerging Markets Bank Awards 2014. These awards select top banking performers in emerging markets, and banks are judged on numerous factors including growth in assets, profitability, strategic...

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Yawning gap between trade policy and climate change needs to be removed
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ARTIEnegy Programme Director Dennis Tessier (1st-L) shows to climate and environment delegates who attended the Fifth Conference of the Tanzania National Reference Group of the PACT-EAC in Dar es Salaam, energy serving cookers that have been ...
Tanzania, China agree to consolidate bilateral relationsPeople's Daily Online

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>Many, who thought drafting the Constituent Assembly (CA) Standing Orders was an easy task, are apparently surprised to see the House spending three weeks on the assignment.

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Meagre funds holding back library school
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The Tanzania Library Information Service Board (TLSB) says insufficient funds are hampering its efforts to improve infrastructures at the School of Library, Archives and Documentation Studies (SLADS) in Bagamoyo, Coast Region. TLSB Board Officer, Confort ...

As a way strengthening communication and sensitisation of EAC achievements and popularizing integration benefits to all East Africans, the EAC Secretariat in collaboration with GIZ will be conducting sensitization workshops at Mutukula and Sirari/Isebania borders from 16th to 17th and from 23rd to 24th April, respectively.
The sensitisation workshops, which targets small traders, young entrepreneurs and women traders, will be conducted in a participatory manner with presentations on...

How much is BS are you tolerating? So we are clear, BS is a Rwandese acronym that stands for bitter sweet. Oh c’mon, you’re grown up enough and you’ve used the word many more times than the years you’ve been alive. Yep! I mean bullsh.t.