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Tanzania’s opposition leader on reggae, resistance and his own resurrection

Africa Simon Mkina - 30 Sep 2020

Sixteen bullets and 27 operations later, Tanzania’s main opposition leader has recovered from a brutal assassination attempt – and is now in the middle of an even bigger fight

Tanzania’s opposition finds that forming a united front is not so easy

Africa Simon Allison & Simon Mkina - 30 Sep 2020

Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step

On the road with East African truck drivers

Africa Simon Mkina, Godfrey Kimono & David Mono Danga - 1 Jun 2020

In East Africa, truck drivers are being attacked, robbed and used as diplomatic footballs

Festac, the ANC and the arts

Friday Uhuru Phalafala - 28 May 2020

Keorapetse Kgositsile played a vital part in elevating the position of the cultural worker

Bumbling, irrational, deadly: The Tanzanian president is getting the Covid-19 response all wrong

Africa Zitto Kabwe - 25 May 2020

Discerning leadership is critical in the time of Covid-19 and John Magufuli’s decisions — or lack thereof — have put Tanzanians at greater risk

Editorial: Journalism under attack in Africa

Article Editorial - 9 Nov 2018

'Journalists will not go down without a fight, even as it becomes ever more difficult to do so'

Fear grips Tanzania’s queer people

Africa Carl Collison - 9 Nov 2018

A commissioner’s threat of a crackdown has resulted in them going into hiding or fleeing the country

Africa’s youngest billionaire kidnapped in Tanzania — police

Africa Agency - 11 Oct 2018

In 2013 Mohammed Dewji became the first Tanzanian to grace the cover of Forbes magazine, and was in 2015 named Forbes Africa Person of the Year

How Kenya is managing security 20 years after the Nairobi blast

Africa Staff Reporter - 7 Aug 2018

Two decades after terrorists bombed the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Kenya has implemented a slew of measures to counter terrorism

Tanzania arrests a sign of ‘autocracy’

Africa Carl Collison - 3 Nov 2017

The 13 detained activists had been holding a meeting about health issues, not about homosexuality

Dar es Salaam plans municipal bonds to deepen debt market

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Feb 2014

Local governments may begin financing capital expenditure through municipal bonds from next year, says the head of the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange

More than 30 killed in Dar es Salaam building collapse

Africa Staff Reporter - 1 Apr 2013

A Tanzania official says rescuers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Dar es Salaam, bringing the death toll to 34.

Rocking the Swahili coast

Article Lloyd Gedye - 25 Feb 2011

<b>Lloyd Gedye</b> takes a musical journey through the streets of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar's Stone Town.

Tanzania arms depot blasts kill at least 17

Africa Staff Reporter - 17 Feb 2011

A series of blasts levelled several arms depots at a Tanzanian army base and killed at least 17 people, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said on Thursday.

A hard-hatted woman

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Aug 2008

Tanzania's first female crane driver shows Benjamin Thompson what gets her up in the morning.

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