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Olympic torch arrives in Tanzania
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…
Inflation eats into world’s Eid celebrations
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…
Scientists baffled by dolphin deaths in Zanzibar
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…
Malaria Day draws attention to often-fatal illness
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…
21 dead in cholera outbreak in Tanzania
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…
Zanzibar’s president sworn in for second term
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…
Little hope of saving lost Danish divers
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…
Churches attacked in Zanzibar as tensions rise
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…