Solar and Energy Transition: Good policy intentions but less progress: Assessing Tanzania and EAC’s Utility scale solar energy potential and policy gaps to fix
May 7, 2024
Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Trade and investment
Governments are struggling with little success to attract and retain utility scale solar projects and many have died in their nascent stages. Yet utility s...
Read More 0 likesEnergy Transition: Understanding basics of solar energy and why it has failed to peak in East Africa
April 25, 2024
Natural Resource, Policy
East Africa has abundant hot sunshine around the year yet harvesting this for large utility scale electricity has remained small. Partially, it is ...
Read More 0 likesThe Petals of Blood: Dissecting the contagion effect of Sudan war on South Sudan and EAC with lessons on governance and state failure
April 8, 2024
Citizen, Conflicts, Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Peace, Regional Cooperation, Security
The Sudan war has been raging for almost a year, with catastrophic effects now spreading beyond Sudan’s borders, affecting its neighboring South Sudan and ...
Read More 0 likesOil and Energy Transition: Why Sudan conflict provides new hope for EACOP
March 31, 2024
Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Regional Cooperation
The Sudan conflict is a catastrophe that must be stopped but its unintended consequences provide new optimism for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACO...
Read More 0 likesHow EAC can benefit from its Critical or Transitional Minerals
March 11, 2024
Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment
The EAC has vast deposits of minerals critical to driving technology to support the green industrial revolution and yet the region lacks a proper framework...
Read More 0 likesCritical Minerals: EAC destined large critical minerals block, yet benefits remain elusive
March 6, 2024
Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment
With the DRC and Somalia on board and new coltan discoveries made in Kenya, the East Africa Community (EAC) is now destined to become one of the largest cr...
Read More 0 likesDemocracy under attack: Revisiting the 10 principles for a democratic culture and elections in Tanzania
March 1, 2024
Governance, Peace, Uncategorized
Democracy is said to be good yet democracy everywhere is under attack.
By Moses Kulaba, Governance and Economic Policy Analysis
@politicalgov...
Read More 0 likesTanzania's new political and electoral reforms : A step to the right, a high jump to go!
February 20, 2024
Citizen, Conflicts, Governance, Peace
In early February 2024 the Tanzanian parliament made sweeping electoral reforms by passing three bills governing elections and political parties ...
Read More 0 likesTanzania’s offshore wind and tidal energy potential: How Tanzania can become a wind and tidal power giant
November 29, 2023
Economic Analysis, Governance, Natural Resource, Policy
Tanzania faces acute electricity energy supply yet with investments in offshore wind and tidal waves projects, the country can turn fortune by generatin...
Read More 4 likesEvaluating East Africa’s economic trends and outlook 2024: What should EAC governments do to reduce further hardships?
November 22, 2023
Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Governance, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment
The East Africa Community is so far the largest economic block, with 7 members states with a vast territory straddling from the Indian ocean coast to the A...
Read More 0 likesEnergy Transition: Why Africa must focus on Energy Aggregation and Consolidation
October 30, 2023
Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Policy
Historically, energy transitions have never meant one energy system completely replacing another rather one system reducing quantitatively amount of use in...
Read More 1 likeSecuring Tanzania's clean energy future: How Tanzania can harness its renewable energy opportunities
October 30, 2023
Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Uncategorized
With a high wind potential that covers more than 10% of its land and a solar power potential estimated to be 31,482 TWh for CSP technology and 38,804 TWh f...
Read More 0 likesTAXING E-COMMERCE IN A RAPID EXPANDING DIGITAL ECONOMY: Managing the delicate balance between DRM, and Employment in East Africa-How do we get right?
July 12, 2023
Economic Analysis, Tax, Trade and investment
Taxation of e-commerce is an emerging area of challenge in tax policy and administration and yet the rapidly expanding digital economy has recorded a proli...
Read More 0 likesFinancing of the Green Economy and prospects for Africa-Can Green Banks offer a viable alternative?
May 29, 2023
CSO, Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment
Achieving Green Economies and a just energy transition for Africa cannot be achieved without financing. It is said there is sufficient liquidity and capita...
Read More 0 likesAfCFTA: Dissecting the world’s largest Free Trade Area: Challenges and Opportunities for East Africa. Is AfCFTA a window of opportunity or a fallacy?
April 21, 2023
Diplomacy, Economic, Economic Analysis, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment
The AfCFTA entered into force on May 30, 2019. Despite the speed at which this new Africa continental trading block is unloading, there is very limited kno...
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