Nothing is for free in Tanzania, especially not weddings, which take a large chunk out of one’s payslip each month.
The <i>MV Spice Islander</i> was so overloaded leaving Zanzibar’s port it started to list and passengers scrambled to get off.
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/ 10 September 2011
At least 43 people died when a ferry capsized off the coast of Zanzibar, but around 300 people are feared still missing, a Zanzibar minister says.
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/ 10 September 2011
A ferry sank overnight between two islands in the Zanzibar archipelago, off Tanzania, and a number of people are feared dead, a minister says.
Police on Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago seized 1 041 elephant tusks apparently being smuggled en route to Malaysia, say officials.
Tanzania will target growth of 8% to 10% annually for the next five years to revamp the country’s agriculture, infrastructure and industrial sectors.
A youthful looking Bafana Bafana beat Tanzania 1-0 in their international friendly at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Saturday evening.
Strong leadership is needed to harness Africa’s economic growth to benefit its people, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
A large trial of the drug Truvada, hoped to be a successful HIV-preventing treatment for women, has been halted after it was found to be ineffective.
pressure is growing on the Tanzanian government to shelve its controversial plans to build a two-lane highway across the Serengeti.
A project to produce clean energy for The Netherlands and Belgium has degenerated into a controversial abuse of natural resources in Africa.
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/ 25 February 2011
<b>Lloyd Gedye</b> and photographer <b>Lisa Skinner</b> spent a week in Zanzibar to attend the Sauti za Busara music marathon.
<b>Lloyd Gedye</b> takes a musical journey through the streets of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar’s Stone Town.
Who would have thought? Even those who don’t like sushi are digesting seaweed every day.
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/ 17 February 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.
The secret serpent of heroin lurks in the undergrowth of this tropical tourist spot.
The brother of South African Deborah Calitz, the woman taken hostage by Somali pirates last year, said there is still no update on her whereabouts.
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/ 6 November 2010
Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete won a second term in office with 61% of the vote, election officials said on Friday.
A Tanzanian opposition leader asked the electoral body on Wednesday to stop announcing results from the presidential vote and called for a recount.
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/ 3 November 2010
Tanzania’s ruling party said on Tuesday it expected to emerge the victor from last Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
Ali Mohamed Shein of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi was declared the winner of Zanzibar’s elections.
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/ 1 November 2010
Tanzania await official poll results with federal president Jakaya Kikwete likely to clinch re-election.
Vehicles and animals are on a collision course in Tanzania.
Today’s safari is significantly more than a jolly jaunt for the rich and fabulous wazungus (white people) of yesteryear.
Scarred Zanzibar shows it’s possible to fashion elegant responses to the obligations of memory.
Malaria infection rates — and temperatures — are on the rise in parts of Africa. Many researchers point to climate change. Others aren’t so sure.
Conservationists flew the first five of 32 critically endangered East African black rhinos from SA back to their habitat in Tanzania’s Serengeti.
Mozambique and Tanzania opened a bridge that will allow the first road traffic between the countries, it was reported on Thursday.
Aids activists attending WEF talks in Tanzania arrived in SA on Thursday afternoon after being detained and escorted to the airport by authorities.
President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he will attend the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa.
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/ 23 October 2009
At least 59 people have died of cholera in the past two months in Tanzania, a senior Health Ministry official said on Friday.
As part of her introduction, Margaret told us that she liked girls and was proud to be a lesbian.