Tanzania, Aug. 20 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania needs to strengthen its domestic economic resilience and adopt longer-term contingency plans as uncertainty over when the US-Iran conflict will end raises the risk of prolonged disruption to energy, transport, trade and agricultural supply chains.

The conflict, which began on February 28, 2026, is increasingly spilling into Tanzania's economy through higher transport, energy and agricultural costs, highlighting the need for a stronger domestic buffer against external shocks.

Iran said on August 15 that it had yet to decide whether to resume talks with Washington, while shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remained severely disrupted.

The waterway, through which about a fifth of global oil s...