Author: Emanuel Nyangwe

Markets 12 September 2025

Top 12 Trade Exhibitions in Tanzania - 2025: Opportunities for Businesses and Investors

In 2025, Tanzania is set to host numerous high-profile trade fairs across sectors such as construction, healthcare, automotive, energy, agriculture, and mining. For businesses aiming to scale or expand internationally, these exhibitions offer unparalleled opportunities to network, learn, and grow.

Regions 12 September 2025

What Makes a Country’s Economy? Lessons from Tanzania and Beyond

For Tanzania, leveraging its natural resources, young population, growing infrastructure, and strategic trade policies can drive sustainable growth

Markets 12 September 2025

How Tanzania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Embassies Can Boost Exports for Tanzanian Products

One of the key challenges facing Tanzanian businesses is the fragmented access to export information. To address this, Tanzania could establish a “Tanzania Export Hub”, a digital platform managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with TanTrade. This would serve as a centralized online resource where exporters can access up-to-date information on regulations, potential buyers, and available government support.

Markets 12 September 2025

Tanzania Government Regulations: Do They Help or Hinder Businesses?

The joint venture between Barrick Gold and the Government of Tanzania, known as Twiga Minerals, showcases how structured regulation can drive investment and local benefits.

Industry 11 September 2025

Drip Irrigation: Tanzania’s Answer to Climate Resilient and Commercial Farming

For farmers aiming to scale up and embrace commercial agriculture, drip irrigation systems offer a smart, efficient, and sustainable solution.

Markets 11 September 2025

From West to East: The Shifting Tides of Tanzania's Trade

With its economic focus increasingly shifting away from traditional partners in Europe and North America and toward emerging powers in Asia, particularly China and India.

Infrastructure 11 September 2025

Investing in Tanzania’s Rental Market: Opportunities, Yields, and Strategic Insights

Rental yields in Dar es Salaam typically range between 6% and 8% annually for mid- to high-end apartments, with prime neighbourhoods such as Masaki, Oysterbay, Mbweni, Mbezi beach and Mikocheni commanding the highest rents.

Regions 11 September 2025

Dodoma as the New Capital: Unlocking Economic Transformation in Tanzania’s Heartland

Dodoma’s rise as Tanzania’s new capital symbolizes more than political relocation; it signals economic decentralization and inclusive growth. With careful planning, wise investment, and consumer support, Dodoma can become both a political nerve centre and a thriving economic hub.

Industry 11 September 2025

Why Does Tanzania Import What We Produce? A Call for Smarter Agriculture and Investment

Wheat from Russia and Australia, rice from Thailand and Pakistan, sugar from Brazil and India, edible oils from Asia, and even apples from South Africa and Europe these imports fill Tanzanian markets despite the fact that local farmers are cultivating the very same crops.

Markets 9 September 2025

How Diaspora Investment Can Transform Tanzania’s Economy

Tanzania's Diaspora Policy 2022: Aims to facilitate investments by Tanzanians abroad, offering guidance on remittances, skills transfer, and business linkages.

Markets 9 September 2025

CRDB Bank’s Core Banking Upgrade: A Strategic Catalyst for Tanzania - Dubai Trade

Tanzania exported approximately US $686 million worth of goods to the UAE in 2023 while, imports from the UAE into Tanzania reached around US $1.42 billion in 2023.

Markets 9 September 2025

Breakthrough Capital Barriers: Boosting Tanzanian Entrepreneurship with Real Solutions

Just 20% of SMEs can access formal bank loans, often because of unrealistic collateral demands and complex requirements.