Tanzania

Tanzania’s top banking executives, capital market leaders, and climate finance experts gathered in Dar es Salaam this week for the Green Finance Forum, issuing a unified call to fast-track sustainable investment and close the funding gap threatening the country’s climate goals. The high-level meeting, convened by the CEO Roundtable of Tanzania (CEOrt), focused on mobilizing private capital to accelerate the country’s green transition—amid mounting evidence that climate inaction could cost the continent trillions in lost productivity and deepening poverty.

A new climate initiative will help more than fifty small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya and Tanzania to adopt environmentally sound technologies. The initiative,...

Tanzania’s public transport will move to cashless payment system in October, the country’s transport regulator has said. The east African nation had expected to make...

Mauritius has officially moved to a high income economy status in the latest classification by the World Bank as Tanzania and Benin graduated from...

Tanzania is the most urbanised country in East Africa, according to data compiled by researchers at Yale and Columbia universities. The second largest economy in...

Tanzania has suffered the biggest rollback of poverty reduction gains in East Africa battered by Covid-19 pandemic, with about six million more Tanzanians sliding...

Uganda has witnessed the steepest drop in road traffic in Africa as a result of travel curbs to contain coronavirus. Data from Norway-based consulting firm...

More women than men live in extreme poverty in Kenya with four million females subsisting below the poverty line, a new report shows. Vienna-based World Poverty Clock...