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New report urges Africa to seize clean energy opportunity amid climate crisis

The WEO 2025 analysis shows that even if global climate action stalls, renewable energy would still grow faster than fossil fuels

  1. Two sentenced to death for murder, one is acquitted

  2. Daniel Sillo elected as Tanzania’s new Deputy Speaker

  3. Firm ordered to remit Sh2.3bn to NSSF

  1. Samia nominates Dr Mwigulu Nchemba as new Prime Minister

  2. Tanzanians ‘neglecting crucial health necessity’

  3. Cancer cases on the rise, Kilimanjaro leads in numbers

  4. All eyes on Samia

  5. DRC hosts high-level forum to advance economic integration and peace in the Great Lakes region

  6. TADB empowers Ruvuma farmers with agribusiness and financial training

Africa

A third Tunisian opposition leader launches hunger strike in prison

TUNIS. Jailed Tunisian opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, 84, began a hunger strike, joining two prominent politicians who are protesting what they call “unjust imprisonment,” lawyers said on...

  1. World Food Programme may have to pause food aid in Congo due to record low funding

  2. South Africa takes over as interim Chair of SADC after Madagascar steps down

  3. SADC leaders congratulate Samia and extend condolences over recent Tanzania’s election-related unrest

  1. Cameroon security forces killed 48 in election protests, UN sources say

  2. Egypt's Suez Canal revenues rise 14 percent

  3. Nigeria says US help against Islamist insurgents must respect its sovereignty

  4. Trump says there 'could be' US troops on the ground in Nigeria, or air strikes

  5. Ivory Coast's Ouattara secures fourth term with landslide election win

  6. World's oldest ruler re-elected in Cameroon, protests erupt

World

Sarkozy released from ‘nightmare’ prison

He entered La Santé prison in Paris on Oct 21 as the first former head of an EU state to be incarcerated

  1. Mamdani’s victory exposes fault lines in Jewish Democratic politics

  2. Russia's Lavrov says he is ready to meet Rubio

  3. Philippines evacuates 100,000 people as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon

  4. ICC issues arrest warrant for ally of Philippine ex-President Duterte over drug war, ombudsman says

Business

Government finalising law on Islamic finance

Tutuba said the upcoming legislation is expected to streamline oversight across banking, insurance and capital markets

  1. Curbing middlemen: Tech company unveils digital crop trading solution

  2. South Africa takes first steps to explore Africa’s maiden green shipping corridor

  3. Tanzania hosts trade show to help unlock continent’s horticultural potential

  4. Tanzania’s Treasury Registrar unveils targets to transform public entities by 2030

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