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Adjustable spectacles may help millions

Extraordinary self-adjusting glasses, with little wheels on the sides, are being shipped to Afghanistan, Ghana and Tanzania.

Tanzania must do more in graft fight, says World Bank

Tanzania needs to do more in its fight against graft and take swift action against perpetrators, the World Bank said.

Clinton recalls US embassy attacks in Africa

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday honoured the victims of the deadly 1998 attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Can cellphones promote safe sex?

Could cellphone text messages encourage safer sex among homosexual men in Tanzania, where consensual sex among men remains illegal?

Tanzania needs $1,5bn for power in next five years

Tanzania needs about ,5-billion over the next five years to revamp its power sector, but the financial crisis may make access to funds harder.

IMF faces trust problem in Africa

As the International Monetary Fund seeks ways to help Africa through the global economic crisis it faces mistrust stemming from past mistakes.

Education in Tanzania: A series of near-misses

A hungry girl presses against her classroom’s smashed window to look outside. Surely maths is over and it is time for lunch, she seems to say.

Saved by their stripes: Africa’s vanishing herds

As rain begins to fall on Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park, thousands of zebra and and giraffe will begin one of the world’s greatest migrations.

Bill Gates in new push against malaria

Bill Gates and thousands of babies are helping Africa prepare its largest medical experiment ever in the search for a new vaccine against malaria.

Tanzania charges ex-ministers over deal

Tanzania has charged two former ministers with impropriety over the award of a mineral audit tender in 2002, court documents showed.

Another albino murdered in Tanzania

Attackers murdered an albino girl in Tanzania, where albinos have been targeted by witchdoctors, an official said on Tuesday.

Tanzania to probe deadly disco stampede

Tanzanian police on Thursday questioned managers of a hall where a stampede killed 19 merrymakers, an official said.

How to say ‘I do’ to the wedding committee

Weddings are an expensive business in Tanzania, and everyone’s involved. Richard Mgamba explains what it takes to get a bride to the altar.

House-hunting Dar es Salaam style

Dolar Vasani and her family try to find a home in Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania economic growth to rise steadily

Tanzania is expected to increase its rate of economic growth this year from last year’s 7,3% and to get inflation below the average 2007 level of 7% by mid-2009.

Breastfeeding and Aids

Breastfeeding is not detrimental to the health of HIV-positive mothers, according to a study published in the latest edition of Aids.