One Million: How the DSE Is Chasing a Landmark Investor Target
Most of Tanzania's wealth never touches a stock account. Land, livestock, informal trade and bank deposits hold the savings of tens of millions of people, while the formal equity market reaches only a sliver of them. That gap is the backdrop to the Dar es Salaam Stock...
One Million: How the DSE Is Chasing a Landmark Investor Target
Most of Tanzania's wealth never touches a stock account. Land, livestock, informal trade and bank deposits hold the savings of tens of millions of people, while the formal equity market reaches only a sliver of them. That gap is the backdrop to the Dar es Salaam Stock...
Recovery Rally: How DSE Equity Turnover Rebounded 14 Percent in Week 13
A market can look busy and feel hollow, or look quiet and run deep; the trick is knowing which figure to trust. The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange's Week 13 report offered a clean case study. Equity turnover rose 14.38 percent and traded volume jumped 44.07 percent,...
Short Week, Big Gains: How the DSE Lifted Capitalisation 2.91 Percent in Week 15
Fewer trading days are supposed to mean fewer gains, yet the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange managed the opposite. Its Week 15 report shows market capitalisation rising 2.91 percent even as turnover fell on a shortened trading week, a divergence that says something...
Bottle Tax: How Kenya’s 35-Percent Glass Duty Sparked an EAC Trade Row
Kenya has spent years championing a single East African market, then drafted a budget that taxes one. The Finance Bill proposes a 35 percent excise duty on glass bottles imported from EAC partner states, reversing an exemption granted in 2021 and reopening a question...
This Month’s Issue
The Corridor Dividend
How East Africa spent a decade laying the rails, the ports, the cables and the payment rails – and why the corridor pays the firm that worked out where to stand, not the one that cut the ribbon.
- 01 The Connection Doctrine: The Corridor Dividend
- 02 Congo Prices Its Own Debt – What a Sovereign Debut Really Costs
- 03 Mogadishu: What a National Payment Rail Really Reprices
One Million: How the DSE Is Chasing a Landmark Investor Target
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange aims to lift its investor base from 740,000 to one million, driven by youth and mobile trading — what it means for Tanzania.
Recovery Rally: How DSE Equity Turnover Rebounded 14 Percent in Week 13
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange saw equity turnover up 14.38% and volume up 44.07% in Week 13 as bonds fell and the Industrial index gained 0.82%.
Short Week, Big Gains: How the DSE Lifted Capitalisation 2.91 Percent in Week 15
The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange lifted market capitalisation 2.91% in Week 15 despite lower turnover on a short week, a fundamentals-led gain for the DSE.
Economics
Bottle Tax: How Kenya’s 35-Percent Glass Duty Sparked an EAC Trade Row
Kenya has spent years championing a single East African market, then drafted a budget that taxes one. The Finance Bill proposes a 35 percent excise duty on glass bottles imported from EAC partner states, reversing an exemption granted in 2021 and reopening a question...
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
A special economic zone is only as special as its customs line. Without a clearly defined customs area, the tax holidays and duty deferrals that draw investors to an SEZ have no enforceable boundary, and the zone becomes a policy promise rather than an operating...
Six Pacts: How the Ruto-Ramaphosa Summit Deepened Kenya–South Africa Trade
Africa's two largest economies south of the Sahara trade more in rhetoric about continental integration than in goods with each other. Kenya and South Africa sit at opposite ends of the AfCFTA's promise and, until recently, well short of its potential. A June 2026...
Money
One Million: How the DSE Is Chasing a Landmark Investor Target
Most of Tanzania's wealth never touches a stock account. Land, livestock, informal trade and bank deposits hold the savings of tens of millions of people, while the formal equity market reaches only a sliver of them. That gap is the backdrop to the Dar es Salaam Stock...
Recovery Rally: How DSE Equity Turnover Rebounded 14 Percent in Week 13
A market can look busy and feel hollow, or look quiet and run deep; the trick is knowing which figure to trust. The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange's Week 13 report offered a clean case study. Equity turnover rose 14.38 percent and traded volume jumped 44.07 percent,...
Short Week, Big Gains: How the DSE Lifted Capitalisation 2.91 Percent in Week 15
Fewer trading days are supposed to mean fewer gains, yet the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange managed the opposite. Its Week 15 report shows market capitalisation rising 2.91 percent even as turnover fell on a shortened trading week, a divergence that says something...
Lifestyle
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....
Malaria’s Playbook: What Tanzania Learned From China’s 1-3-7 Method
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The usual currency of health aid is goods - drugs, nets, diagnostic kits shipped from a donor to a recipient. The more durable, and rarer, export is a method. In...
Bottle Tax: How Kenya’s 35-Percent Glass Duty Sparked an EAC Trade Row
Kenya’s Finance Bill proposes a 35% excise on EAC glass imports, reversing a 2021 exemption and adding US$7.7m to Tanzania’s Kioo Ltd, sparking a trade row.
Customs Lines: How Kenya Designated New SEZ Zones Under the EAC Act
Kenya’s Commissioner of Customs designated SEZ customs areas under the EAC Customs Management Act, drawing the boundary that makes zone incentives enforceable.
Six Pacts: How the Ruto-Ramaphosa Summit Deepened Kenya–South Africa Trade
Kenya–South Africa trade rose to US$650m as Presidents Ruto and Ramaphosa signed six pacts on trade facilitation, standards, TVET and women’s empowerment.
Finance Bill 2026: How Kenya Aims to Raise KSh 3.5 Trillion from a Digital Tax Net
Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 targets KSh 3.533 trillion by taxing digital services, standard-rating EVs, shortening return deadlines and widening withholding.
Price Pressure: How Fuel and Food Pushed Kenyan Inflation to 6.7 Percent
Kenya’s headline inflation rose to 6.7% in May 2026 from 5.6%, driven by transport and food, with non-core at 16% against a contained 3.2% core rate.
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
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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.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.
Press Centres and Production Links: China’s Quieter Media Play in Africa
The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.