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VPNs with servers in Tanzania

Providers with exit locations in Tanzania: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.

4 providersOrdered by securityUpdated 21 October 2026

The HushFleet teamRegister of 21 October 2026

Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.

Tanzania’s Online Content Regulations, 2020 make it an offence to render, possess or distribute technology that helps users reach prohibited content, and in a public notice dated 13 October 2023 the regulator, TCRA, asked those who depend on VPNs to declare them and said it would take regulatory action against unauthorised use, including disabling access.

Regulation 16(2) of the Online Content Regulations, 2020 (GN 538) provides that a person shall not render, possess or distribute technology, a program or an application that allows or helps users to access prohibited content. Regulation 21(1) sets, where no specific punishment exists, a fine of at least five million shillings, imprisonment of at least twelve months, or both. Internet cafés keep user registers for twelve months (reg. 13).

What the law requires of a provider standing here

A TCRA public notice of 13 October 2023 asked those for whom a VPN is indispensable to declare it, with its IP address, by 30 October 2023, and said TCRA would take regulatory action against unauthorised VPN use, including disabling access.

Under the Cybercrimes Act, 2015 a station-level police officer may order any holder of data to disclose it (s. 32(1)), order traffic data (s. 34) or content data (s. 35) to be disclosed or collected, and order preservation for up to fourteen days (s. 33); a court may compel a service provider to give subscriber information (s. 32(3)). Whether a VPN operator is a service provider under the Act is not established.

What is restricted

Regulation 19(b) lets TCRA order removal of, or bar access to, prohibited content, and regulation 15 requires hosts to remove it on notification. The Schedule (the Third Schedule until an amendment of 28 January 2025, GN 57) lists categories including sedition and hatred, terrorism, gambling, insults to religion, unapproved information on outbreaks of disease, and content that is “false, untrue, misleading” unless marked as satire or fiction; the amendment added unethical, fabricated and artificial-intelligence-generated content.

Access to X was reported blocked from about 20 May 2025, and The Citizen reported a nationwide internet shutdown from about 11 a.m. on 29 October 2025 that lasted seven days.

Whether posting can be prosecuted

Section 16 of the Cybercrimes Act punishes publishing information in a computer system knowing it to be false, deceptive, misleading or inaccurate, with intent to defame, threaten, abuse, insult or mislead the public: a fine of at least five million shillings, imprisonment of at least three years, or both. Section 23 (cyber bullying) carries the same minimum. Regulation 14 makes every user accountable for what he posts.

In March 2017 a three-judge court in Dar es Salaam dismissed a challenge to section 32, finding disclosure requests not arbitrary and the section proportional.

What it means for the rows below

The Constitution protects the freedom to communicate and protection from interference with one’s communication. Under the Cybercrimes Act providers must not monitor the data they transmit or store (s. 39(1)), an order for content data can come from a police officer (s. 35), and applications for a forensic tool are heard ex parte and in camera (s. 38).

The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.

Tanzania

Ranked by security

Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.

A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.

Acceptable
1
Proton VPN
Commercial VPNSwitzerland
Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
70 out of 100
Security
78 out of 100
Usability
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Insufficient
2
NordVPN
Commercial VPNPanamaNord Security
Coverage149countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$139.08yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
17 out of 100
Security
70 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
3
VeePN
Commercial VPNPanama
Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
7 out of 100
Security
77 out of 100
Usability
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Not recommended
4
Norton VPN
Commercial VPNUnited StatesGen Digital
Coverage103countries
Paying monthly—no monthly plan
Paying yearly$39.99yearly total
Free tierNopaid trial only
Devices5at once
4 out of 100
Security
75 out of 100
Usability
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VPNs with servers in Tanzania

Ranked by security

The other 179 countries

Changes to the country lists and mandate postures of the providers listed here

Proton VPN

NordVPN

VeePN

Norton VPN