Tag: Tanzania

M-Pesa customers in Tanzania can now use their Android phones to tap and pay at any Visa-enabled point-of-sale terminal in ...

The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) is selling its 54.08% controlling stake in Nation Media Group (NMG), East ...

Uber officially ceased operations in Tanzania in a statement issued on January 30, 2026, after nearly a decade of presence ...

Several Tanzanians on the social media platform X (Twitter) are changing their profiles on the platform. A number of accounts ...

Tanzania has suffered major financial losses following a nationwide internet shutdown and the prolonged suspension of the social media platform ...

Tanzania experienced a nationwide internet disruption today coinciding with the country’s general elections. According to network data from NetBlocks, the ...

Businesses in Kenya have received major relief after Tanzania agreed to spare them from the recent ban on foreign-owned small ...

Kenya is the largest importer of solar panels in the Eastern African (EA) region. In terms of capacity, the country ...

A sweeping new order by the Tanzania government, published on July 28 2025 under the Business Licensing Act (Cap.101), has ...

For the second time in less than ten months, Tanzania has blocked access to X. The outage has been confirmed ...

Tanzania faced a cybersecurity breach earlier today when hackers compromised the Tanzania Police Force's official X account, using the platform ...

African startups raised $2.2 billion in 2024, after overcoming a slow start to the year with a much-improved second half. ...

The East African Nation of Tanzania has blocked access to social media platform X. Today’s ongoing outage has been confirmed ...

Research carried out by telecommunication research company Cable UK finds Kenya to have quite expensive monthly internet packages. In addition, ...

Tanzania is currently in the early stages of drafting a comprehensive National AI Strategy and Guidelines. The goal is to ...

NALA is a remittance payment processing platform licensed in the UK and United States. Benjamin Fernandes, the company’s Founder & ...

Today the President of Tanzania, H. E. Samia Suluhu Hassan officially inaugurated the Tanzanian Personal Data Protection Commission. The data ...

The government of Kenya's tax on mobile money transactions is one of the highest in the African continent.  First introduced ...

The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has moved to clamp down on the use of Virtual Private Networks in the ...

d.light, an early pioneer in off-grid solar solutions targeting low-income households has announced it has closed $125 million in funding ...

Tanzania President Dr. Suluhu Samia was the chief guest as Tanzania Community Network Alliance (TCNA) signed a contract to deploy ...

Bolt is one of the leading e-taxi companies in Kenya. It also offers services in Tanzania, but that is about ...

The SIM card registration or re-registration exercise has been an issue among millions of Kenyans. It is a process that ...

Tanzania seems to have allegedly blocked internet use and restricted SMS messages using keywords from reports showing up on social ...

Tanzania is going to hold its general elections on October 28, 2020. The advent of any elections in emerging economies, ...

The Tanzania ICT regulator says it is in the preparation stage of deploying a monitoring tool for ISPs to ensure ...

Tanzania's government has launched a crackdown on social media posts that it perceives as 'inciteful' and 'misleading' on the state ...

E-commerce site Jumia is no longer in Tanzania. According to Techawk, Africa’s ‘Amazon’ closed shop in the country in order ...

We cannot deny the impact information technology products have had in our modern lives. The last decade has seen a ...

A popular Tanzanian comedian was held by police after sharing face swap photos of himself and the Tanzanian President. Idris ...

Earthquakes/tremors are one of the most random events we experience in our lives. Large ones cause a lot of destruction ...

The rise of use of telecommunication technologies has caught governments offside when it comes to regulations. One of them has ...

Tanzania has one of the fairest data prices in the region and they have been an envy to the rest ...

Airbnb is one of the rising service companies that have come to disrupt specific markets and they have indeed disrupted ...

A popular Tanzanian website was forced to close down over the new regulations