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If death could be bribed, the rich men would never die, this old African saying has come to life as…

The East African Community has tabled before the East African Legislative Assembly the budget estimates for the 2021/2022 Financial Year…

Forbes recently. released a list of Africa’s top dollar musicians and here is the list in descending order.…

Tanzania set aside over 110 hectares for the construction of the Mtwara Free Port Zone over a decade ago (2009)…

For the longest time, Africa has been regarded as a hub of extraction, with a history of colonialism that resulted…

ECOWAS countries in West Africa have long reasoned that the issue of food security cannot be left to a single…

The government of Tanzania is working on a blue print to increase sell of the country’s agro-produce by setting up…

When one of the World’s richest couples decides to divorce then yes we are all warrant to Tweet our P…

That’s right—it is not on mere goodwill that the magnanimous sums are dished out; it is a two-way street. We give you this amount if you do this for us. This give and take barter in economics is known as conditionality.

To put it in the words of Kjell J. Havenevik, author of ‘The IMF and the World Bank in Africa (Conditionality, Impact and Alternatives), ‘Conditionality is the term given to the conditions relating to macro-policy elements which countries have to meet in order to get access to international loans and/or aid.’

We in the journalism science get information about the big sums ‘handed’ to African countries; what we usually do not get through the all-too-frequent press releases is the conditionality that comes with that money.

Barely a month after the tragic and unexpected death of Tanzania’s outspoken and visionary leader Dr. John Magufuli, the country has gone ahead and inked an oil pact with neighbouring Uganda.

The move puts a lid on speculations of how the country’s first woman President Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan will handle duties of the top office. The new president, who was former vice president under the Magufuli regime, sat with her Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni and together shook hands for French Total E&P and China’s CNOOC and signed key agreements for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).