The debate about Tanzania’s gold reserves has produced more heat than light

When the Minister of State in the President’s Office Investment and Planning, Prof Kitila Mkumbo, confirmed in London that President Samia Suluhu Hassan Had directed the Bank of Tanzania to proceed with a partial sale pf its gold holdings, public conversation split into two camps: those insisting this routine central banking and those who fear the country is pawning the family silver under technocratic language Both are missing the more consequential question

Tanzania’s gold is not the problem. The silence around it is | The Citizen