Banking still a pipe dream for millions living outside Dar

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>On a hot afternoon in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, a Form One maths lesson is underway at Kibera Girls Soccer Secondary School. Their teacher, Ms Dhalifa Hassan, writes a formula on the white board and asks one of the students to read it aloud.

Odion Ighalo grew up in Nigeria as an avid Manchester United fan. Now he is living his "dream" by playing for them.

>Tanzania is set to become the first country in East and Central Africa to build a factory for manufacturing Glass Reinforced Pipes (GRP) that are able to pump heavy fluids such as petroleum, waste water and gas materials.

4 banks accounted for over 76 per cent of the sector’s profits last year, according to a new Bank of Tanzania (BoT) report. 

Newly established financial institutions recorded fast growth in 2013, pointing to an absorption capacity that is still significant.

Here's some good news - the number of commercial banks that offer agency banking has increased from two to eight in the past year as Dar financiers seek to broaden their reach.  

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New Dar master plan to render millions homeless
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A new Dar es Salaam master plan which has just come off the drawing board and is scheduled to be put into effect in June, next year, is likely to see more than 3.6 million Dar es Salaam residents rendered homeless on the ground of encroaching on ...
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>Dar es Salaam residents pay more to access basic needs than their counterparts in Nairobi and Kampala, a new study shows.