First Oil Countdown: How EACOP’s 1,400 Welded Kilometres Near Completion
Oil discovered is not oil sold. Uganda found commercial crude under the Albertine region years ago, but the value sat trapped in the ground until a way could be built to move it to a market. That way is a pipeline, and as the country counts down to a first-oil target...
First Oil Countdown: How EACOP’s 1,400 Welded Kilometres Near Completion
Oil discovered is not oil sold. Uganda found commercial crude under the Albertine region years ago, but the value sat trapped in the ground until a way could be built to move it to a market. That way is a pipeline, and as the country counts down to a first-oil target...
Lindi Gas: How a US$1.6 Billion Methanol Plant Won a Ten-Year Tax Holiday
A tax holiday is usually read as a cost — revenue a government chooses to forgo. Tanzania's decision to grant a ten-year tax holiday to the National Methanol Company reverses that reading. The state is not giving money away so much as paying, in deferred revenue, for...
Corridor Cash: How AfDB’s US$500 Million Rebuilds Tanzania’s Roads
A road's worst cost rarely shows up in the construction budget. It shows up afterwards, year after year, in the fuel, tyres and repairs that bad surfaces extract from every vehicle that uses them. Tanzania's transport planners have long understood this, and the...
Masunga Sports Complex Opens; Council Eyes Solar and Fee Review
A new sports complex is easy to open and hard to sustain. The ribbon-cutting draws a crowd; the running costs arrive quietly every month thereafter. At end-March 2026 Masunga, in the north-east, faced exactly that test as its sports complex opened for public use — and...
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First Oil Countdown: How EACOP’s 1,400 Welded Kilometres Near Completion
EACOP is 79% complete, 1,400km welded and 500km buried, as Uganda nears its 31 July 2026 first-oil target, with TotalEnergies, UNOC, TPDC and CNOOC as owners.
Lindi Gas: How a US$1.6 Billion Methanol Plant Won a Ten-Year Tax Holiday
Tanzania grants a 10-year tax holiday to the National Methanol Company for a US$1.6bn Lindi plant making 1.5m t methanol and 2m t LNG, creating 5,000 jobs.
Corridor Cash: How AfDB’s US$500 Million Rebuilds Tanzania’s Roads
The AfDB backs Tanzania’s 257km Dodoma–Babati corridor and 42km Arusha bypass, targeting a 25% cut in vehicle operating costs and benefiting 3.5m people.
Economics
Lindi Gas: How a US$1.6 Billion Methanol Plant Won a Ten-Year Tax Holiday
A tax holiday is usually read as a cost — revenue a government chooses to forgo. Tanzania's decision to grant a ten-year tax holiday to the National Methanol Company reverses that reading. The state is not giving money away so much as paying, in deferred revenue, for...
Beyond the Budget: How Tanzanian Business Demands Faster Growth to 2050
A budget the private sector applauds is rarely a budget the private sector finds sufficient. That is the tension running through Tanzanian business's response to the June 2026/27 budget: genuine praise for what was done, paired with a blunt insistence that it does not...
Cabanga TV is live: watch how M-Pesa changed Africa
A Kericho cyber café, a Kenyan smart farm, a Ugandan banker's rise and Tanzania's mega-port are among the East African stories now free to watch. NAIROBI, 17 October 2026 - Sending money by phone sounded too simple to matter. It turned airtime agents into a cash...
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First Oil Countdown: How EACOP’s 1,400 Welded Kilometres Near Completion
Oil discovered is not oil sold. Uganda found commercial crude under the Albertine region years ago, but the value sat trapped in the ground until a way could be built to move it to a market. That way is a pipeline, and as the country counts down to a first-oil target...
Lindi Gas: How a US$1.6 Billion Methanol Plant Won a Ten-Year Tax Holiday
A tax holiday is usually read as a cost — revenue a government chooses to forgo. Tanzania's decision to grant a ten-year tax holiday to the National Methanol Company reverses that reading. The state is not giving money away so much as paying, in deferred revenue, for...
Corridor Cash: How AfDB’s US$500 Million Rebuilds Tanzania’s Roads
A road's worst cost rarely shows up in the construction budget. It shows up afterwards, year after year, in the fuel, tyres and repairs that bad surfaces extract from every vehicle that uses them. Tanzania's transport planners have long understood this, and the...
Lifestyle
Masunga Sports Complex Opens; Council Eyes Solar and Fee Review
A new sports complex is easy to open and hard to sustain. The ribbon-cutting draws a crowd; the running costs arrive quietly every month thereafter. At end-March 2026 Masunga, in the north-east, faced exactly that test as its sports complex opened for public use — and...
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
Mid-Week Holiday: How Kenya Gazetted Eid al-Adha for 27 May
A calendar that runs Monday to Friday rarely makes room for a faith that follows the moon. Kenya's working week is built around the Gregorian grid, yet its public holidays must answer to lunar reckoning, and this year the arithmetic landed in the middle of the week....
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Lindi Gas: How a US$1.6 Billion Methanol Plant Won a Ten-Year Tax Holiday
Tanzania grants a 10-year tax holiday to the National Methanol Company for a US$1.6bn Lindi plant making 1.5m t methanol and 2m t LNG, creating 5,000 jobs.
Beyond the Budget: How Tanzanian Business Demands Faster Growth to 2050
Tanzanian business praised the 2026/27 budget’s VAT refunds and simpler rules but demanded 10-15% growth for Vision 2050, flagging taxes and logistics.
Cabanga TV is live: watch how M-Pesa changed Africa
A Kericho cyber café, a Kenyan smart farm, a Ugandan banker's rise and Tanzania's mega-port are among the East African stories now free to watch. NAIROBI, 17 October 2026 - Sending money by phone sounded too simple to matter. It turned airtime agents into a cash...
Local Ore: How A1’s TSh 600 Billion Dodoma Steel Plant Targets 1,500 Jobs
A1 Iron & Steel pledges TSh 600bn for a Dodoma steel plant using local iron ore, starting July 2026 and creating 1,500 jobs in a beneficiation push.
Steady Hand: How the Bank of Tanzania Projects 6.3-Percent Growth for 2026
Bank of Tanzania projects 6.3% GDP growth for 2026 and 6.6% for 2027 while holding a 3-5% inflation target, giving operators a bankable base case.
Kenya’s raw-mineral ban makes value addition the test
Kenya plans to stop exports of unprocessed minerals and expand gold refining, shifting the policy question from extraction volumes to domestic processing, formalisation and competitiveness.
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Cabanga TV is live: watch how M-Pesa changed Africa
A Kericho cyber café, a Kenyan smart farm, a Ugandan banker's rise and Tanzania's mega-port are among the East African stories now free to watch. NAIROBI, 17 October 2026 - Sending money by phone sounded too simple to matter. It turned airtime agents into a cash...
Mimosa shows mine cybersecurity is now operational infrastructure
Mimosa Mine’s collaboration with Rockwell Automation and Mine Elect shows that connected operational technology has turned cybersecurity into a production and resilience issue.
Big Tech Knocks: How Amazon Kuiper and Uber Are Seeking Kenyan Telecom Licences
Amazon Kuiper and Uber filed for Kenyan telecom and courier licences; the Communications Authority opened a 30-day objection window before deciding.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.