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World Bank Says Corruption Costs Kenya 2% of GDP Annually as 2026 Growth Forecast Rises to 4.6%
Kenya's economy is projected to grow 4.6% in 2026, up from the World Bank's previous 4.3% forecast, ...
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Tanzania’s Banking Sector Posts Record Growth, But Questions Linger Over Capital and AI Readiness
New EY report shows banking assets surged 24.5% to TZS 77.4 trillion, yet industry faces pressure on...
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Global Aid Fell 23 Percent in 2025, the Steepest Drop on Record. Ukraine Received More Than All of Sub-Saharan Africa Combined.
Global ODA fell 23.1 percent in 2025 to USD 174.3 billion, the largest annual drop on record and the...
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Tanzania's 2026/27 Budget Speech Is a Transition Document. Read It That Way.
Tanzania macroeconomic foundation is solid. The private sector pivot is real. But five structural ga...
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How Government Investment in Youth Can Help Reduce Tanzania’s Debt Burden
Tanzania’s Youth (under 35 years) make up over 65% of the total population, according to NBS (Nati...
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Kenya Is Turning Back to Multilateral Lenders to Ease Its Budget Pressure
Kenya is negotiating fresh multilateral budget support as high domestic borrowing costs place increa...
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Who Will Pay For Tanzania's US$1 Trillion Dream? The Answer Is Not Government.
Tanzania's Long Term Perspective Plan 2026/27–2050/51 assumes private investment, not government s...
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Air Tanzania Carried 1.18 Million Passengers Last Year. It Lost TZS 191 Billion Doing It. Costs Are Growing Faster Than Revenue on Every Single Metric.
Air Tanzania is Tanzania's most visible public enterprise and its most strategically symbolic. The g...
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Dar es Salaam Loses 53 Percent of Its Water Before Anyone Drinks It. The City Is Adding 500,000 People Every Year.
Uchumi360 published its Dar es Salaam cities analysis in March 2026, documenting that the city is ad...
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Tanzania's Pension Funds Are Owed TZS 1.29 Trillion by the Government. That Debt Has Been Outstanding for Approximately 18 Years. The Workers Whose Savings Are at Stake Do Not Know.
Tanzania's social security system holds the retirement savings of the country's public sector workfo...
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Tanzania Has TZS 11 Billion in Mining Drilling Equipment Sitting Idle. The Asset Transfer From a Mining Company to STAMIGOLD Has Taken 12 Years and Is Still Incomplete.
Uchumi360's critical minerals coverage has documented Tanzania's mineral formalisation achievement, ...
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34 Tanzanian Public Institutions Have No Board of Directors. 77 Are Processing Money Outside the Government's Own Accounting System. This Is What Governance Failure Looks Like in Data.
The governance chapter of the CAG's 2024/25 audit is the most structurally significant section of th...