New service eases payment in hotels

More than 200 tourist hotels have petitioned the High Court to stop local governments charging the city service levy, which is said to have had a devastating effect on their business.

  Hundreds of Kinondoni residents were last Friday treated to a memorable post paid electricity bill payment ‘extravaganza’ by lead electronic payment service provider MaxMalipo when Tanzania’s electricity utility company TANESCO launched the first phase of its customer reach out electronic bill payment service at the expansive Dar es Salaam sub region.
Using the MaxMalipo PoS, the ever present MaxMalipo agents bounced into action, serving the mammoth customers who flocked the Magomeni...

>Corporate bodies that bank with Standard Chartered Bank can now find it increasingly easy to pay various people instantly, thanks to the bank’s new service.

>Businesspeople, banking with Ecobank Tanzania Limited (ETZ), will now be able to transact directly with their Chinese counterparts without the involvement of a third party, thanks to a new initiative launched in Dar es Salaam earlier this week.

>Microfinance institutions in Tanzania can now make better lending decisions by using a data analytic system that provides instant credit risk scores through mobile phones.

Schools have been reopening in Guinea after a five-month closure because of the Ebola outbreak which has killed thousands in West Africa.

South Sudan's hunger crisis eases after a "green harvest", but about 1.5 million people are still in desperate need of food aid, experts say.

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