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...
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...
Local Ore: How A1’s TSh 600 Billion Dodoma Steel Plant Targets 1,500 Jobs
Tanzania ships iron ore and imports steel back at a markup. That inversion — exporting raw value and buying the finished product — has defined the country's relationship with its own mineral base for decades, and it is exactly the gap A1 Iron & Steel Tanzania Ltd...
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.
Egypt’s BRICS trade surge is import-heavy
Egypt’s trade with BRICS countries reached $36.7 billion in the first half of 2026, but imports rose much faster than exports and widened the gap.
Congo’s Kamoa solar plant changes mine-power economics
A 233MWp solar array and 526MWh battery system now supplies 30MW of firm power to Kamoa-Kakula, showing storage is becoming mine infrastructure.
Mozambique’s reserve decline is an import-capacity warning
Net international reserves fell to $3.436 billion in July, the lowest level in at least a year, leaving Mozambique with about four months of import cover.
Malawi–Mozambique trade reform targets the informal border economy
The Tripartite Simplified Trade Regime is testing whether lower paperwork, clearer product rules and border support can move small traders into formal regional commerce.
Namibia’s green platforms are becoming investment infrastructure
Namibia is using hydrogen and green-industry summits as economic-diplomacy platforms designed to connect projects, capital, technology and regional demand.
BPC’s new revenue strategy moves beyond electricity sales
Botswana Power Corporation wants to lift revenue from about P9 billion to P25 billion by 2031 by adding fibre, wheeling and regional energy opportunities.
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.
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