A response from the Tanzania Red Cross Society outlines the needs of the local responders in trying to alleviate the suffering by those on the ground at the building collapse.

Dar Es Salaam - A building under construction in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has collapsed with several fatalities and many missing, including workers and children.

Parts of Africa are seeing a dangerous rise in the amount of counterfeit medication – for diseases such as malaria – coming largely from Asia.

Susan Wells wanted to help young people in Tanzania obtain their education. The Toronto social worker had made several trips to the African nation before her last one on November 25. It would be her last.

Paleontologists have identified what they believe to be the oldest dinosaur fossils in existence. This new dinosaur discovery possibly challenges current beliefs on dinosaur history.

War-torn Afghanistan has embraced boxing as a form of sport by staging its first professional boxing fight amid violence and anarchy brought about by over a decade of fighting between US-backed Afghan forces and the Taliban

Zanzibar - On Wednesday, October 17, hundreds of Uamsho (Awakening) supporters took to the streets of Zanzibar demanding police release the leader of Islamic movement Sheikh Farid Hadi who disappeared mysteriously the day earlier.

Zanzibar - While sectarian turmoil continues to create havoc in parts of Zanzibar. Zanzibari who live in Toronto are worried for their friend and family’s safety in violent-stricken East African Island.

Tanzania has been placed on high alert over two suspected cases of Ebola. The two patients suffering Ebola-like symptoms had returned to Tanzania from a trip to neighboring Uganda where suspected Ebola cases have risen to 53.

In the cute factor department, this video of a baby elephant dashing out of the brush after its mother ranks way up there, even if it is only 22 seconds long.

Police in Tanzania are hunting for the truck driver who dumped the dead bodies of 43 Ethiopian migrants that suffocated to death in the back of a truck he was using for people smuggling.

Kenya Airways partially reimbursed a Swedish woman after she was forced to sit through a 10-hour flight to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, next to a passenger who died during the flight.

Durban - The naval leadership of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) says although international efforts in fighting piracy are important, it can take care of its own waters, as long as the region can develop its shipbuilding capacity.

It's a big business year for illegal African ivory. A record number of ivory seizures were made globally this year, produced by an enormous surge in elephant poaching.

Over 13 people are said to have lost their lives in floods after strangely heavy rains hit Dar es Salaam, capital of the east African country of Tanzania.

With the UN Climate Summit barely two weeks away, Africa is abuzz with its biggest and most colorful road show ever to highlight the continent’s climate change woes: the ‘Trans African Caravan of Hope.’

Bodies have now begun to wash up in the area of Zanzibar, an island in the nation of Tanzania, from a boat which has sunk nearby.

Dar Es Salaam - Barclays Tanzania Bank has organized a special fund raising sports event dubbed Step Ahead 2011 aimed at netting funds to assist maternal and infant health sector in Dar es Salaam.

Dar Es Salaam - Tango Open junior tennis championship kicks off this morning at the Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club (DGC) attracting more than 50 players in the courses.

Dar Es Salaam - The government of Tanzania has refuted claims that refugees are being evacuated from Katumba, Mishamo and Rubumu refugee camps to pave a way for an American firm to cultivate the land.