Foreigners to buy securities

>Investors’ appetite for long-term government securities was high last week, resulting in a 19.8 per cent oversubscription of the Treasury bonds (T-bonds).

>No investor from the East African countries has started buying government securities since the regulator lifted curbs on them in May, the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) announced yesterday.

A three-day regional workshop to domesticate the EAC Council of Ministers’ Directives on Securities Market in the regional bloc into national laws has concluded in Arusha, Tanzania. The 31 July to 2 August workshop was organized by the EAC Secretariat in collaboration with the World Bank, as part of the financial sector integration and regionalization agenda.
The workshop reviewed modalities for domesticating the Council Directives on Securities Market into national laws of the respective...

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A review of laws on fixed assets ownership in the country could soon see foreigners enabled to buy apartments in structures constructed by the National Housing Corporation, President Jakaya Kikwete revealed on Wednesday

South Africa is set to hold a huge protest march against xenophobia in the coastal city of Durban following a wave of attacks on foreigners.

Emergency evacuations of the first of thousands of foreigners stranded in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic are due to begin.

Foreigners arraigned over drugs
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TWO groups of 17 foreigners were yesterday arraigned at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam charged with trafficking in illicit drugs valued at 3.7bn/-. The first group comprised 13 Iran nationals, who appeared before Resident Magistrate ...

Nine foreign oil workers are reported missing after an attack on a Libyan oil field in which eight guards were beheaded.