Tanzania to ease pump pain with $43m fuel subsidy

Petrol station.

A petrol station attendant at a pump. Tanzania has announced a $43 million fuel subsidy to help ease the high cost of living. PHOTO | FILE 

Tanzania will spare motorists and households high pump price increases next month after the government announced a Tsh100 billion ($43 million) fuel subsidy on Tuesday.

Speaking in Parliament, Energy minister January Makamba said President Samia Suluhu’s administration is also in the final stages of securing loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help ease the high cost of living, worsened by increasing petroleum prices.