Tanzania earns Sh1bn from cashew export in one day

Rising demand of cashew nuts in the world market sent good news to Tanzania’s farmers during the past few months, resulting into a 13.1 per cent increase in exports of the products during the year to November 2013, Bank of Tanzania (BoT) figures show.

US-based Symbion Power LLC, is currently looking for partners in the construction of a $1.3 billion (about Sh2.7 trillion) power plant in Mtwara that will see Tanzania exporting electricity to a number of countries in the region. 

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Tanzania's Ubongo earns $75k investment from Pearson
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Tanzanian edutainment startup Ubongo has received US$75,000 in seed funding in order to help it scale after coming through a six-month incubation programme organised by learning firm Pearson in collaboration with Village Capital. Ubongo aims to ...
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Tanzania's rice export potential underutilised
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TANZANIA'S great potential to feed the entire East African region with rice is largely underutilized, says the Secretary General of the East African Community, Dr Richard Sezibera. Speaking in Dar es Salaam last week, Dr Sezibera said Tanzania's rice was the ...
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Tanzania Can Fulfil Rice Needs of Entire Region But its Export Potential ...
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Tanzania is capable of fulfilling the rice needs of entire East African Community (EAC) region but the government, rice growers and exporters do not recognize the country's export potential, local sources quoted the Secretary General of the EAC as saying.
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 Parliament of Uganda are the champions of the Inter-Parliamentary football tournament once again!  Parliament of Uganda beat Parliament of Tanzania 2-1 in an entertaining final played at the Sheikh Abeid Amri stadium yesterday to take the trophy away for the fourth time in consecutive.  The victors started the game on a high pace testing the Tanzania defence several times. Strikers Hon Odonga Otto and Hon Muhammad Nsereko made constant raids but the defence marshaled by Hon Adam Malima held...

The Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) Referral Hospital will spend Sh1billion on the construction of two wards for in-patients, a big relief for the regional hospital currently facing a bed crisis for admitted patients.

>Nine employees of Stanbic Bank in Dar es Salaam were arrested yesterday evening as the police moved in to investigate a walk-in robbery in which over Sh1 billion was reportedly carted away by armed suspects.

Two employees of Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) were yesterday charged with several counts of fraudulently using communication network and causing the loss of over Sh1 billion to the Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) and the government.