Report: Tanzania Closer to Launching a CBDC

Tanzania is getting closer to launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC) which gives the country’s residents a “safe alternative,” the central bank governor has said. However, no date for the digital currency launch has been given. Growing Interest in Cryptocurrencies According to Florens Luoga, the governor of Tanzania’s central bank, his country is inching […]

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Wave of Mobile Tax Hikes Squeezes Africa’s Poor to Indulge Governments

Wave of Mobile Money Tax Hikes Squeeze Africa’s Poor to Spoil GovernmentsA smart robber fleeces you with a pen and a handshake. From Zimbabwe to Kenya, Uganda to Benin, African governments are on a tax-raising spree, looking for easy money, ostensibly to help fund successive revenue shortfalls and budget deficits. Often, the money ends up being misappropriated by corrupt public officials. The best weapon in government […]

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