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.

In a recent swine flu-related study. Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have concluded that pregnant women who get the dreaded virus are four times more likely to be hospitalized as compared to other swine flu patients.

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.