Tanzania News
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A Tanzanian small-scale miner has become a multi-millionaire after uncovering two of the biggest of the country's precious tanzanite stones ever found and selling them to the government.Saniniu Kuryan Laizer, 52, found the stones weighing 9.27 and 5.
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Dar Es Salaam -
Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Tuesday dissolved parliament to allow for elections in October, pledging a "free and fair" vote in a country where the opposition has decried a climate of fear and violence.
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Apo -
Thousands of years ago, a group of people took a walk in what is now Tanzania. The footprints they left behind are now offering insights into ancient human life.
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Dar Es Salaam -
Twenty people in Tanzania were trampled to death at an open-air evangelical Christian church service in the north of the country, officials said on Sunday.
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Nairobi -
A leading Tanzanian politician who launched a crackdown on homosexuality has been banned from visiting the United States, the US State Department said.
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Nairobi -
A powerful climate phenomenon in the Indian Ocean stronger than any seen in years is unleashing destructive rains and flooding across East Africa -- and scientists say worse could be coming.
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Cankuzo -
Nearly 600 Burundians who fled political violence in their home country to Tanzania were on Thursday repatriated voluntarily, the UN refugee agency and witnesses said.
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Johanesburg -
South Africa has impounded a plane belonging to Tanzania's national carrier over a farmer's $33-million compensation claim for land which was nationalised decades ago, a lawyer said Sunday.
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Johanesburg -
South Africa has impounded a plane belonging to Tanzania's national carrier over a farmer's $33-million compensation claim for his land which the Tanzanian government nationalised decades ago, a lawyer said Sunday.
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Nairobi -
The death toll from a fuel truck explosion in Tanzania has climbed to 95, a hospital spokesman said Sunday.
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Morogoro -
Tanzania was in mourning Sunday, preparing to bury 69 people who perished when a crashed fuel tanker exploded as crowds rushed to syphon off leaking petrol.
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Morogoro -
Tanzania was in mourning Sunday, preparing to bury the dead after 64 people perished when a crashed fuel tanker exploded as crowds rushed to syphon off leaking petrol.
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Morogoro -
Sixty-four people perished in Tanzania Saturday when a fuel tanker overturned and then exploded as crowds of people rushed to syphon off leaking fuel.
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Zamb -
Thousands of people in remote areas of storm-lashed Mozambique were homeless Saturday and bracing for imminent flooding, food and water shortages as Cyclone Kenneth flattened entire villages, leaving rescuers struggling to reach them.
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Moscow -
Up to 20 people were presumed dead off Russian-annexed Crimea after a fire engulfed two fuel ships, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Moscow -
Fourteen people were killed and five were missing off Russia-annexed Crimea in the Black Sea on Monday after a fire engulfed gas tankers sailing under the flag of Tanzania, authorities said.
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Nairobi -
Tanzanian police said Friday they had identified the driver of a vehicle used in the kidnapping of Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who was snatched over a week ago.
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Nairobi -
The family of Tanzania's only billionaire Mohammed Dewji, who was kidnapped last week in Dar es Salaam, on Monday announced a reward of nearly half a million dollars for information on his whereabouts.
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Time-worn and weather-beaten, the MV Mbita III tilts slightly to the left as it creaks out of its Kenyan port on Lake Victoria.
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Nairobi -
Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday ordered the arrest of the management of a ferry that capsized in Lake Victoria, as the death toll climbed to 131 and rescue workers pressed on with the search to find scores more people feared drowned.
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Nairobi -
At least 44 people died and scores were feared missing after a ferry capsized in Victoria, Africa's largest lake, with a desperate search for survivors set to resume in Tanzania on Friday.
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Nairobi -
Tanzania is an "independent" country and will not be "intimidated", the ruling party said on Saturday after the US expressed concern about the conduct of 70 recent by-elections.
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Nairobi -
Kenya and Tanzania on Tuesday mark 20 years since the devastating US embassy bombings that thrust Al-Qaeda onto the global stage and went on to shape how a generation thinks about personal security.
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Nairobi -
Tanzanians have to pay $900 for a permit to blog, a staggering amount for many in the country, say critics who see the fee as a further bid by President John Magufuli to gag dissident voices.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday inaugurated a 24-kilometre (15-mile) around the country's tanzanite mines to prevent smuggling of the precious violet-blue stones, which are unique to the East African country.
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Nairobi -
A court in Tanzania on Friday charged eight people with the murder of renowned conservationist Wayne Lotter who was shot dead in Dar es Salaam in August.
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Mara -
Five-month-old bloodhound Shakaria gambols through the long savannah grasses of Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve, her playful mood swiftly turning to keen determination as she is ordered to track a human scent.
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Nairobi -
Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Sunday ordered an inquiry after police admitted responsibility for the death of a 22-year-old student who was hit by a stray bullet as they sought to break up an opposition rally.
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Nairobi -
A local leader of the main Tanzanian opposition party has been found beaten to death after men bundled him into a car, party chairman Freeman Mbowe said Wednesday.
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Nairobi -
Tanzania has deported three South African lawyers arrested last week for "promoting homosexuality", their organisation said in a statement.
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A scene from Zanzibar Saleh Salum
Wangari Maathai, the first ever African Woman to win the Nobel Prize for her commendable fight for the environment PACJA
Tom Abraham-James, founder and CEO of Helium One, collects helium gas from a natural water and gas seep near Lake Eyasi, Tanzania, in November 2015. Bubbles just in view in the 'puddle' contain up to 10 per cent helium. Peter Barry/University of Oxford
Cat® Dealer, Mantrac Africa, partners with Wentworth Natural Resources to bring new power and prosperity to Mnazi Bay and City of Mtwara, Tanzania. CAT Products
Mount Lengai seen from Lake Natron, Northern Tanzania Clem23
Heavy rain near a school in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania pricerelli
Blast fishing in Tanzania. MrCybermancer
Capsizes -- often caused by overloading -- are not uncommon in Victoria, Africa's largest lake CARL DE SOUZA, AFP/File
Charlie Mkama, energy efficiency consultant for Dar es Salaam Water and Electric Board
The USS Farragut executes a very fast turn. US Navy
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Lake Malawi, bordering Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique Wikipedia
Caravan of Hope is a roadshow that aims to draw world leaders' attention to climate change in Africa
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Female cheetah in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania Grégoire Bouguereau
Cafeteria building: Stella Maris Mtwara University College of Tanzania SAUT
Yang Feng Glan. YouTube screen grab Newsy
About 70 percent of the population lives in rural areas, and do not have access to electricity. UNDP
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