Who Will Fill These Wagons? Tanzania’s Cargo Dilemma Amid Real Freight Launch
Empty Tracks, Big Promises At last, the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) has begun hauling cargo. In late June 2025, a…
Rails and Rhetoric: Who Really Pays for Tanzania’s Mega Projects?
Every time the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) slices across Tanzania’s plains, it draws admiration, sleek, modern, and promising. It symbolizes…
Empty Trains, Missed Gains: A Modern Railway Without Modern Cargo
We built the train. It runs sleek, fast, and on schedule. From Dar es Salaam to Morogoro, then to Makutupora,…
Will It Move the People? Tanzania’s SGR and the Politics of Passenger Rail
I remember the first videos that surfaced: families gathered near the tracks, children pointing at the speeding locomotive, parents cheering…
Brazil Pix Under Fire: U.S. Tariffs and the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
Brazil’s Pix payment system represents a groundbreaking innovation in the global financial landscape, accelerating de-dollarization through practical, user-centric design and…
More Tracks, Less Flow? The Institutional Bottlenecks Undermining Tanzania’s SGR
There’s something undeniably cinematic about watching Tanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) cut across the plains — an echo of progress,…
The Steel Gamble: Can Tanzania’s SGR Truly Deliver on Its Infrastructure Promise?
The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) glides into Tanzania’s urban landscapes like a modern promise — sleek, fast, and heavy with…
Market Magic or Government Power: Which Route Will Industrialize Tanzania?
Tanzania finds itself at a pivotal crossroads. The country’s pursuit of sustainable industrialization is caught between two powerful ideologies: market-driven…
NALA CEO Speaks With “The Citizen” On Opportunities and Threats of Startups.
NALA CEO Benjamin Fernandes had a one to one discussion with Mwananchi Communications about the state of startups, opportunities and…
Can Tanzania Domestic Gold Purchase Programme Reduce the Demand for External Borrowing?
Yes, Tanzania’s Domestic Gold Purchase Programme “can directly reduce the need for external borrowing”, and here’s why and how it…
