Tanzania's Visa Crisis Linked to Business Licensing Prohibition for Non-Citizens
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- First, they believe it is in response to Tanzania’s Business Licensing (Prohibition of Business Activities for Non-Citizens) Order, 2025, which banned 15 businesses that are not allowed to be conducted by non-Tanzanians.
- It is 9:30 pm on Sunday, July 26, 2026, and these people have come early so that they can be first in line to submit their documents for visa processing when the embassy opens in the morning.
- So from August 2025 going forward the situation started to deteriorate,” one of the traders at Kariakoo market, who is also a committee member of the Kariakoo Business Association, told The Chanzo about the situation.
- On August 3, 2026, during a meeting between the Tanzanian government and the private sector on the signing of a pact for the implementation of Vision 2050, the Chairperson of the Tanzania Traders Association, Khamisi.
- The businesses that will survive are only agricultural ones, because 70 percent of the goods we use come from China,” said retailer and local importer, Rahabu Mwambene.