The hunt for albinos in Tanzania and Burundi by witchdoctors, who use their body parts for the manufacturing of traditional medicine, has claimed over 60 lives over the past recent months.

The list of the world's endangered species has grown since last year. Of nearly 50,000 analyzed, 15,000 species, both plant and animal, are at risk of extinction. Sadly the world lost a tiny little toad.

A court in the Shinyanga region of northern Tanzania this week sentenced to death four men convicted of killing a 50-year-old albino man whose body parts the killers believed to have magical powers.

It is feared that the British couple that disappeared while sailing their yacht in the Seychelles last week has been taken hostage by Somali pirates.

The international aid agency Oxfam has launched a £9.5 million ($15 million) emergency appeal for East Africa as 23 million people in the region find their lives under threat from hunger.

A local commercial bank, Exim Bank (Tanzania) is set to spread wings to the Horn of Africa country of Djibouti after a successful debut in the Indian archipelago of the Comoros.

Various unethical practices including dumping of bee hives, cutting electricity wires, throwing of rotten eggs have been reported at various stations in the ongoing voter registration exercise in Pemba - Zanzibar.

The Tanzania Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda, has asked PT Rutan Company of Indonesia to send their experts to assess the possibility of assembling agricultural equipment such as tractors in Tanzania to enhance the Kilimo Kwanza program.

A high-ranking official of the international terrorist group al-Qaeda is believed to have been killed by American troops, Monday, during a daylight raid in southern Somalia.

On Wednesday, hundreds of stores in Mexico City have become green after a new law that will order businesses to stop selling thin plastic bags that are not biodegradable.