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A new wave of land grabs strikes Tanzania

10 February 2024 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN

Tanzania was one of the most heavily targeted countries of a huge scramble for farmland around the world that followed the food and financial crises of 2008 and that was supposed to help solve global food insecurity. The large farm projects, (...)
Let us unite against micro-credits and illegitimate debt

4 March 2020 - by Sushovan Dhar

For every KSh 100 Kenya is collecting in tax revenue, it is spending KSh 130 to fund its budget needs, an overspending that is driving its voracious debt appetite to plug the shortfall. An analysis of the most recent expenditure data published (...)
Kangemi Declaration

14 February 2020 - by CADTM

We, the participants of the 2nd CADTM East Africa Regional Meeting from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as well as from Morocco and India gathered at Kangemi, Nairobi in Kenya from 7 to 9 February 2020 do hereby acknowledge and affirm that (...)
Alert on the sophistication of illegitimate debt techniques via mobile telephony

8 November 2019 - by Eric Toussaint

In the era of widespread mobile telephony, we witnessed certain capitalist firms employing a sophistication of techniques to ensure the illegitimate debt of the lower classes. Kenya, a country of 50 million people, is considered to be at the (...)
Tanzania: After Defaulting on Loans, Kilombero Plantation Ltd (KPL) Goes up for Sale

28 March 2019 - by Oakland Institute

Kilombero Plantation Ltd (KPL), the Tanzanian subsidiary of the Guernsey-registered Agrica Ltd., is up for sale after defaulting on loans from several financial institutions. KPL, heralded as the “best in class” player in the field of socially (...)
East Africa citizen debt audit

14 August 2018 - by Leader Baraka, Eliud M.A. Letungaa

Slide-show presented by our comrades from Tanzania at the three days training on Citizens Debt Audit, held in Nairobi. <![endif]—>
Canada’s hand in Tanzania mining fraud

4 August 2017 - by Yves Engler

The Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold’s African subsidiary, Acacia Mining, is embroiled in a major political conflict in Tanzania. With growing evidence of its failure to pay royalties and tax, Acacia has been condemned by President Magufuli, (...)
Out of Africa: Tax evasion, capital flight and debt

28 April 2014 - by John Weeks

Though thoroughly documented, the fact that illegal capital flight and tax evasion far exceed inflows of development assistance and direct investment for sub-Saharan countries is rarely noted in the mainstream media. Even modest steps toward (...)
In Tanzania, ’death doesn’t wait’ for the poor to raise money

27 February 2005 - by Stephanie Nolen

BUSWELO, TANZANIA — In the golden light of late afternoon, Anna Kasiana lies on a grass mat in her swept dirt yard, reading a Kiswahili edition of the Bible. There is a small pile of shelled beans beside her, the product of her afternoon’s work. (...)