Tanzania News
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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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By AFP
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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By AFP
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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By AFP
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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By AFP
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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By AFP
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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By AFP
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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By AFP
Nairobi -
Tanzania has deported three South African lawyers arrested last week for "promoting homosexuality", their organisation said in a statement.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
An independent Tanzanian newspaper has been suspended for two years, a government spokesman said Tuesday, accusing the publication of sedition and endangering national security.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
Tanzania's main opposition party claimed Tuesday that the government of President John Magufuli played a role in the gun attack last week that wounded an outspoken politician and shocked the country.
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By AFP
Arusha -
In the developing world, basic healthcare is often a challenge -- let alone expensive medical screening or tests for easily treatable, preventable illnesses.
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By AFP
Arusha -
Nigerian neuroscientist Oshiorenoya Agabi may have found a way to solve one of life's puzzling dilemmas: how to make air travel pleasant again.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
Tanzania has threatened to arrest and deport those campaigning for gay rights and de-register organisations protecting homosexual interests, local media reported Monday.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
Tanzania President John Magufuli said students who become pregnant should not be allowed to finish their studies after giving birth, sparking outrage from women's rights campaign groups. "I give money for a student to study for free.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
Tanzanian police said Saturday that they had arrested two morgue employees in Dar es Salaam after they admitted to cutting open a dead man's corpse and stealing the drugs hidden in his stomach.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
At least 29 final year primary school pupils were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school's director said.
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By AFP
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Burundi's government affirmed Tuesday it will shun peace talks with opposition figures planned for later this week in Tanzania, dragging out a political crisis that has stretched for over a year.
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By AFP
Dar Es Salaam -
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday asked his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli to take action against the network of an exiled cleric he blames for last year's failed coup.
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By AFP
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A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck northwest Tanzania, close to Lake Victoria and the borders of Uganda and Rwanda, has killed at least 14 people and injured 200, local authorities said Sunday.
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Bukoba -
A powerful earthquake struck along the western shore of Lake Victoria in northern Tanzania Saturday afternoon, killing 11 people and injuring 192, but the actual death toll will probably be much higher say authorities.
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By AFP
Dar Es Salaam -
Tanzania's main opposition party on Wednesday postponed for a month promised protests against what it says are anti-democratic actions by President John Magufuli.
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By AFP
Dar Es Salaam -
Sweaty passengers crammed into battered buses and stuck in traffic jams look on enviously as Tanzania's shiny new commuter buses fly by on the pristine asphalt of dedicated highway lanes.
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By AFP
Morogoro -
They have proven their worth in detecting landmines but Africa's giant pouched rats have a lesser-known but equally critical vocation - saving lives by speeding up tuberculosis detection.
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By AFP
Sydney -
A piece of debris found in Tanzania is "highly likely" to be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australia's transport minister said Friday, as he defended the Indian Ocean search efforts.
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Sydney -
A large piece of aircraft debris, believed to be a wing flap, has arrived in Australia for testing as part of the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, officials said Monday.
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A huge field of helium gas discovered in Africa could help to ease the global shortage of the precious element, vital to many of our high-tech applications, such as MRIs and yes, even those colorful party balloons.
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By AFP
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A "Miss and Mister Albino" contest, heavy sentences for ritual murder and concrete graves to ward off tomb raiders were all discussed at a UN summit on albinism concluding in Tanzania on Monday.
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Tanzania Image
Yang Feng Glan. YouTube screen grab Newsy
Capsizes -- often caused by overloading -- are not uncommon in Victoria, Africa's largest lake CARL DE SOUZA, AFP/File
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
Heavy rain near a school in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania pricerelli
The USS Farragut executes a very fast turn. US Navy
One among good preserved natural forests
Blast fishing in Tanzania. MrCybermancer
Black Rhinos in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania - a Red List critically endangered species Brocken Inaglory, Wikimedia Commons
Wangari Maathai, the first ever African Woman to win the Nobel Prize for her commendable fight for the environment PACJA
The earthquake struck along the western shore of Lake Victoria in Northern Tanzania. USGS
Dar es Salaam city www.en.wikipedia.org
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
A scene from Zanzibar Saleh Salum
Cafeteria building: Stella Maris Mtwara University College of Tanzania SAUT
About 70 percent of the population lives in rural areas, and do not have access to electricity. UNDP
Mount Lengai seen from Lake Natron, Northern Tanzania Clem23
Caravan of Hope is a roadshow that aims to draw world leaders' attention to climate change in Africa
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