Good morning! The Chanzo is here with a rundown of major news stories reported in Tanzania on March 11, 2025.
Tanzania’s Proposed TZS 57 Trillion Budget: Key Spending Priorities for 2025/26
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mwigulu Nchemba, has presented the budget framework and expenditure ceiling for the 2025/26 financial year to the Parliamentary Budget Committee in Dodoma.
The government plans to collect and spend TZS 57.04 trillion, marking a 13.4% increase from the 2024/25 budget, which stood at TZS 50.29 trillion.
The upcoming budget is the final one under the Tanzania Development Vision 2025. The government aims to generate 69.7% of its revenue from domestic sources to reduce reliance on unpredictable and high-cost conditional funding.
“The 2025/26 budget will be financed by TZS 40.97 trillion in revenue and TZS 16.07 trillion from domestic and foreign loans,” said Dr. Nchemba. “This includes TZS 31.83 trillion from tax revenue, TZS 6.23 trillion from non-tax revenue, TZS 1.68 trillion from local government revenues, and TZS 1.22 trillion from grants.”
He emphasized that the budget will support the final phase of the 2025 Development Vision and the 2025/26 Development Plan. Key spending priorities include debt servicing, the government wage bill, the general elections, strengthening democracy, maintaining peace and security, and preparations for the AFCON 2027 tournament.
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Eastern DRC Crisis: EU Special Representative for the Great Lakes region Johan Borgstam Visits Tanzania for High-Level Talks
Johan Borgstam, the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for the Great Lakes Region, is visiting Tanzania from 10th to 13th March as part of a broader mission to the region, which has also included visits to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, DRC and Ethiopia.
Since his arrival on Monday, Mr Borgstam has engaged in high-level discussions with Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation Mahmoud Thabit Kombo, East African Community (EAC) Secretary General Veronica Nduva, high-level diplomatic representatives and civil society organisations.
In Arusha, Mr Borgstam is expected to engage with the board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
A statement released Tuesday by the EU Delegation to Tanzania said the East African nation “plays a key role in supporting regional solutions for the ongoing crisis in the Great Lakes, notably eastern DRC.”
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ACT Wazalendo Announces Boycott of Political Parties Council’s Meetings Over the Organ’s ‘Failure’ to Promote Multiparty Democracy in Tanzania
The opposition ACT Wazalendo party announced Tuesday that it is boycotting Political Parties Council’s consultative meetings, accusing the organ of failure to promote multiparty democracy in Tanzania as well as legitimising frauds and violence during elections.
The party’s secretary-general Ado Shaibu said in a statement that the decision arises from the left-leaning party’s meeting of March 10, 2025, adding that the boycott starts with the upcoming council’s meetings of March 12 and 13, 2024.
Established by the Political Parties Act, the Political Parties Council is mandated to advise the Registrar of Political Parties on the disputes arising amongst political parties as well as matters of national interest, among other functions.
However, according to Mr Shaibu, the Council, whose members are at least two national leaders of each fully registered political party in Tanzania, has failed to execute that mandate, and instead serves as a platform where electoral fraud and violence are “justified and sanitised.”
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