The mayor of Tanzania’s main city, Dar es Salaam, received the Olympic torch from a Chinese official on Saturday evening and assured him its run through the East African nation would be smooth. Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai said, however, she had pulled out of the torch relay in Tanzania.
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/ 12 October 2007
Last year, Maryam Juma marked the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in style. She spent $40 on a goat, roasted the beast to perfection and invited 10 relatives over for a feast to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the festival at the end of Ramadan. But this year, skyrocketing prices for staple foods and other goods have eaten into her budget.
Preliminary investigations have failed to yield an explanation of why hundreds of dolphins left their deep offshore habitat, got stranded in shallow waters and later washed up dead on Zanzibar’s northern coast, a scientist said on Tuesday. ”It is a mystery,” said Narriman Jiddawi, a marine biologist in Dar es Salaam.
Zanzibar marked Africa Malaria Day on Tuesday with an appeal for more aid money to control and possibly eliminate the tropical disease, which kills more than one-million people a year — many of them young children in Africa. Malaria is spread by mosquitoes and causes wracking pain, fever and, if left untreated, death. It is the leading cause of death of those under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
A month-long outbreak of cholera has killed 21 people and sickened 253 in mainland Tanzania and the semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago, officials said on Wednesday. Twelve people have died in the past four days and 115 others were taken to hospitals in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, said city council spokesperson Gaston Makwembe.
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/ 3 November 2005
Zanzibar’s incumbent president was sworn in for a second and final term on Wednesday, a day after the electoral commission declared him and his party the winners of general elections marred by violence, intimidation and allegations of fraud. President Amani Abeid Karume was presented with a 21-gun salute.
Chances of saving four Danish divers and their British-Canadian scuba-diving instructor are diminishing fast, four days after they went missing off Zanzibar, police and Denmark’s ambassador said on Wednesday. A Danish woman, her two sons, an additional Dane and their instructor failed to surface on Saturday.
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/ 18 October 2004
Masked men torched a Roman Catholic church in Zanzibar over the weekend, the third such attack in a week in the predominantly Muslim Indian Ocean archipelago, a church leader said on Monday. Suspicions fell on Islamic extremists, highlighting rising Islamic militancy and growing political tensions as Zanzibar prepares elections.