SADC in Economic Meltdown; Can Tanzania be German of the Region?
August 20, 2019
Citizen, Conflicts, Diplomacy, Economic, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Peace, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Security, Trade and investment
On Saturday 17th August, Tanzania assumed the chair of the South African Development Cooperation (SADC), amidst disturbing economic figures indicating that...
Read More 0 likesElation as Kenya exports Oil; what does it mean for Oil rush in East African region
August 6, 2019
Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Trade and investment, Uncategorized
On 1st of August 2019, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that Kenya had joined the list of world oil exporting Countries by selling its first crude oil at...
Read More 0 likesWhy Rules of Origin (RoO) should not be used exclusively to pursue trade policy objectives
July 30, 2019
Economic Analysis, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment
This article shades light on a major instrument in international trade and customs management, which has been used by states to achieve multiple trade obje...
Read More 0 likesWB Reports Tanzania Economic Growth was lower , warns Poverty reduction is Constant
July 21, 2019
Economic, Economic Analysis, Uncategorized
According to the World Bank Group, Tanzania’s economy is estimated to have grown by 5.2 percent in 2018, a figure which is lower and in contrast to the gov...
Read More 0 likesElection Coordination Mechanisms: A comparative study of Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria
July 15, 2019
Governance, Uncategorized
Proper election coordination is a major factor in successful elections in a multiparty democracy. The findings and key message coming out of a short policy...
Read More 0 likesOne in four people in Africa pay bribes to access services, TI survey says
July 11, 2019
Corruption, Governance
According to Transparency International (TI) survey report, more than 1 in 4 people in Africa who accessed public services, such as health care and educati...
Read More 0 likesA British tax haven, Jersey Island, is returning a Nigerian dictator’s $270 million to his country
July 10, 2019
Corruption, Tax
As Africans celebrate the Africa Anti-Corruption day on 12th July 2019, the good news for Nigeria in a longtime is that a famous British Overseas territ...
Read More 0 likesHow will the South African 2019 Proposed Financing Provisioning Regulations affect mining companies? *
July 10, 2019
Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Tax
As East African Countries grapple on how best to manage environmental payments for compensation and rehabilitation of decommissioned mining sites, the new ...
Read More 0 likes‘The Corruption Tree’, using innovative local ways to sensitize communities about corruption and local governance-Lessons from EU-KAS ‘Tungane Pamoja’ Project in Tanzania
July 8, 2019
Corruption
This project demonstrated that community education about corruption should not be an expensive endeavour after all. While governments spend millions of ...
Read More 0 likesNo fiddling with Civic Space-CSOs affirm at Paris EITI Meeting
June 16, 2019
CSO, Economic, Governance
We demand that an independent, external review be commissioned to analyse the EITI's tools to assess civil society participation; and we demand that Myan...
Read More 0 likesWhat Does this year’s budget have for you? How Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda prepare and manage their budgets differently to minimise perpetual deficit
June 16, 2019
Economic, Economic Analysis, Governance, Policy
As East Africans continue to dissect and internalise what impacts this year’s national budgets will have on the economy and standards of ordinary ci...
Read More 0 likesHow to manage transboundary petroleum resources as Somalia and Kenya talk conflict off East African Coastline
June 16, 2019
Conflicts, Extractive Governance, Peace
The war of words and negative diplomacy between Kenya and Somalia over the disputed potentially oil and gas rich territory in the Indian Ocean has r...
Read More 0 likesTanzania Gold Exports increasing, amidst standoff with mining companies
June 16, 2019
Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance
Pundits suggested that the faceoff with mining companies over tax payments and drastic changes in the mining legislations and practices indicated th...
Read More 0 likesEITI Stakeholders convene in Paris for Global Assembly in June, 2019
May 26, 2019
Stakeholders
The EITI is currently a global standard which promotes transparency norms in the extractive sector. The organization has currently 52 member states from a...
Read More 0 likesBasic understanding of Tax justice and illicit financial flows in extractive sector
May 26, 2019
Extractive Governance, Tax
The call for tax justice has in recent years gained credence as alarming evidence now shows that while ordinary tax payers are sinking under the burden of ...
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