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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...

Jul 13 8 min

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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...

Apr 1 13 min

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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...

Aug 21 3 min

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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...

Apr 11 9 min

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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...

Apr 11 4 min

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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...

Apr 11 4 min

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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, ...

Apr 11 3 min

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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...

Apr 11 4 min

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Tanzania's National Medical Stores Let TZS 18.74 Billion in Medicines Expire. The National Health Insurance Fund Enrolled 39 Percent of Its Target. These Are Not Health Statistics. They Are Economic Ones.

The health sector findings in the CAG's 2024/25 audit are typically analysed through a public health...

Apr 11 3 min

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The Government Underfunded 87 Public Institutions by TZS 1.29 Trillion. Those Institutions Then Failed to Collect TZS 1.32 Trillion From Their Own Sources. Tanzania Has a Compounding Fiscal Gap at the Institutional Level.

Tanzania's fiscal management challenge is typically discussed in terms of the national budget defici...

Apr 11 4 min

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Tanzania's Public Institutions Lost, Wasted, or Failed to Collect Over TZS 10 Trillion in a Single Year. The CAG Report Names Every One of Them.

On March 30, 2026, Charles E. Kichere, Tanzania's Controller and Auditor General, submitted a 301-pa...

Apr 10 3 min

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Magufuli’s Economic Legacy: State Assertiveness, Infrastructure Momentum, and the Next Phase for Tanzania

March 17 marks the passing of President John Magufuli, but beyond remembrance lies a deeper economic...

Mar 17 6 min