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• Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) targets to register 1,000 investment projects in 2024
• The government of Tanzania is also revising the immigration law to draw diaspora investors.

Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC)

From changing harsh taxing practices to revising the foreign direct investment environment – the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) is significantly making notable efforts to make the East African nation investor-friendly.

On Tuesday, July 16, TIC displayed its ambitious goal of attracting nearly $10 billion in capital investments in 2024.

The new target comes seven months later after the government of Tanzania introduced a new campaign to increase investment to around $14 billion attributed by locals.

Tanzania’s investment trajectory took an uplift witnessing 504 projects worth $5.2 billion in 2023 an increase from $3 billion previously.

According to TIC executive director, Gilead Teri, the ambition eyes building impressive growth in foreign and domestic investments for five consecutive years, factored by favourable …

• The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) is currently implementing almost ten hours of power rationing across the country.
• Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has instructed the Tanesco chief to resolve the power rationing issue within six months.
• The country’s electricity grid is facing a shortage of 400 megawatts due to low water flow and maintenance issues.

Dear customer, please find today’s schedule for power rationing. This message has become all too familiar to millions of Tanzanians every morning, depressing news that now servs as a wake-up alarm from utility Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco).

Currently, power cuts in Tanzania, specifically in the commercial pulse, Dar es Salaam, range from 6 to 12 hours throughout the week, across various districts, including uprise sections.

The message comes as a shock not only to me but also to many Tanzanians as power cuts take a new toll in the nation with abundant alternative …

Contrary to her predecessor, President Samia’s pro-business approach has yielded impactful results, paving the way to a prosperous investment journey for Tanzania. President Samia’s administration spent the first year and ten months dealing with various drawbacks that hurt the nation’s ability to market its investment potential to the world.

The government of Tanzania has done away with an unfriendly taxation system, complexity in issuing work permits to foreigners, and trade setbacks. Consequently, Tanzania’s pro-investment approach caught international economic analysts’ attention, including global credit rating, research and data, and Moody’s.…

• In the year before Samia’s administration, Tanzania’s FDI closed 2020 at $3.16 billion though the Covid-19 pandemic might have impacted the inflows.
• Between March 2021 and February 2023, the number of registered funded projects rose from 455 to 575, equivalent to a 26 percent increase.
• Investment expansion in Tanzania trickled down towards the community during the period under review, and job creation grew from 61,900 to 87,187.

Over the past six years, Tanzania investment sector has gone through a somewhat cyclic pattern. Former President John Magufuli’s polices were deemed unfriendly by investors forcing capital to flee to more predictable and profitable markets.

However, in the last two years, there has been a wind of change brought about by President Samia Suluhu who has taken a pro-business approach focused on improving international business and diplomatic relations in the region and across the world.

According to data from Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC), …

• The European Union Investment Bank (EIB) have agreed with commercial banks to unlock a whole new business financing valued at around $580 million.
• The EU is optimistic about the government’s efforts to attract businesses and support investment
• Tanzania Development Vision (TDV) 2025 indicates that about 54.3 percent of Tanzania’s small, medium and micro enterprises (MSMEs)

Over the past two years, President Samia’s administration has not only brought back confidence to investors who left Tanzania but attracted new ones and reinforced the old partners, including the United States.

Tanzania is walking confident with almost $1 billion in investment from various companies from the US, thanks to President Samia’s US visit in April 2022.

The European Union Investment Bank (EIB) and other investors have agreed with commercial banks in Tanzania to unlock a whole new business financing valued at around $580 million.

The support is breathing life into additional capital to small …

• The tripling of investment in 2022 is a statement to the world that the East African nation is open for business.
• The success is a straightforward strategic plan from President Samia’s administration since she assumed office in March 2021.

Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) records show that the year 2022 has made the statement ‘Invest in Tanzania’ hold water. Over the past months, several activities have echoed across multiple fields, including manufacturing, transportation and tourism.

TIC records show that from July to November 2022 there was an increase of 22.2 percent in investment projects (132 registered projects) compared to 102 projects registered during the same period in July to November 2021.

In October, the American firm Moody’s Investors Service changed its status on Tanzania’s outlook from stable to positive, noting that political risks have declined under President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration, which concurrently promotes economic development and strong diplomatic ties.

Tanzania’s …

The government is already working on all issues facing Dangote’s factor on President Suluhu’s directives. This means Tanzania is reshuffling its strategies and operations along the investment lines, to keep up with the rest of the region far ahead of her.

As a country that graduated to a low-middle-income level much more effort towards building sound and attracting an investment environment is required.

The current small achievements prove that there is more coming from President Suluhu’s administration in terms of advancing more foreign investment in the country.…