EDITORIAL: Entrepreneurs can do better

Tunisia's entrepreneurs call for a raft of pro-business reforms

Tigo Tanzania and a non-profit organization, Reach for Change, yesterday awarded $40,000 (about Sh88 million) to two winners of the 4th edition of the Tigo digital change-makers social entrepreneurship initiative. Each of them received $20,000 (about Sh44 million).

The International Labour Organization through the Women Entrepreneurship Development and Economic Empowerment project in Uganda (ILO-WEDEE) has promised to help East African women entrepreneurs to foster market linkages across the East African Region.

Up to 240 small and medium size entrepreneurs (SMEs) from eight regions in Tanzania Mainland have been trained on how to conduct cross-border trade within the East African region, it was announced here last week.

The Small Industries Development Organisation (Sido) will launch a new centre for packaging, an entrepreneurship development fund, technology leasing services and an SME portal in 2016.

Investments Consortium of Tanzanians in the USA(ICT) Invites you to the “Entrepreneurs ,Investments Forum and Expo”Saturday , November 28, 11:00am-4:00 pmEmbassy of Tanzania1232 22nd Street, NWWashington DC, 20004As part of the effort to Global Diaspora Business Initiative , the ICT is inviting all Tanzanians' entrepreneurs and individuals who are planning or interested in doing business in the USA, Tanzania or between the two countries to the unique and the first event of its kind. A...

Call for women entrepreneurs to be creative
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THE UN Women Tanzania office has called for women entrepreneurs in the country to be more creative as they engage in various economic empowerment activities. UN Women Tanzania advisor for Environment and Livelihood, Ms Lesley Reader, said that ...

Nigerian billionaire Tony Elumelu says he will fund 1,000 budding African entrepreneurs as part of a $100m (£670,000) initiative to boost the continent's private sector.

Creating a new generation of entrepreneurs