Tanzania Digest

As Tanzania celebrates its 64th independence anniversary, it also reflects on the significant transformation within its mining sector over the past six decades. At the forefront of this evolution is the Twiga Minerals Corporation, a groundbreaking 50-50 partnership between the Tanzanian government and Barrick Gold Corporation. This collaboration symbolizes not just economic liberation but a commitment to shared prosperity for all Tanzanians.

Vodacom Tanzania, the country’s leading telco company, is revolutionizing cross-border trade and digital financial inclusion with the launch of M-Pesa Global Payment.

Tanzania’s post-election unrest in late October 2025 marked a rare interruption in a nation long regarded as one of Africa’s most stable political environments. While the events were unexpected, the underlying fundamentals of Tanzania’s governance, economy, and societal cohesion remain intact. Early stabilisation efforts, combined with strong macroeconomic indicators and ongoing reform momentum, point to a rapid return to normalcy.

Tanzania’s government spokesman Gerson Msigwa has scapegoated from responding to the CNN verifiable videos of police killing unarmed civilians some who were fleeing away from them, posing no danger to the police. Instead of responding to the serious allegations Gerson Msigwa attacked CNN for violating “principles of natural justice”. The harsh reality is that CNN’s documentary was a “charge sheet” demanding to be answered.

In the wake of the recent post-election violence in Tanzania, a wave of uncertainty has swept across the nation. Amidst the calls for external intervention and scepticism towards domestic solutions, President Samia Suluhu Hassan has initiated a Commission of Inquiry to address the unrest that has shaken the country.

The Council of Imam under the secretary general Sheikh Ponda has issued a strong statement that on 29th October 2025 there was no election but a fabricated election verdict. This is what he has said: Most polling stations did not conduct voting at all. Voters did not show up to vote in most polling stations. The exercise of counting and tallying votes was not performed in most polling booths. Polling agents were not issued with copies of forms of the election verdicts.

A leader is summoned to the fore, by the needs of the time, 10 years from now we will be looking back on those days, and we would realize that we lived to witness one of the greatest speeches of President Samia in office. This is my candid and personal analysis of the President’s Speech delivered on October 14th 2025, Parliament House Dodoma.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who inaugurated the parliament on 14th November, 2025 provoked many troubling questions. She looks hungry to chart a new course but is decorously depleted of new ideas! It was a matter of recycling old failed platitudes, nothing else. For example, she promised a ministry dedicated to the youth, but Tanzania has had a ministry for youth, sports and arts for almost four decades.

Tanzania’s appointed A.G has told the DPP that there must be a way CCM renegade, Mange Kimambi, can be extradited back to Tanzania to face charges of incitement, terrorism and treason caused by election mass demos on election day, and four days later! This article verifies what the A.G exactly said and analyzes the plausibility of the US succumbing to “ditching pillars” of democracy which include free speech and freedom of expression?

By the voice from top roof of Africa This is the voice not the divine one from wilderness like that of John the Baptist, rather this is just humanly from the top roof of Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, conveying cautionary, compassion, heartening   and of self awareness to Tanzania on how they arrived at the unprecedented violence on their seventh general elections since the country resumed multipartyism.