Tanzania’s Maxence Melo to get CPJ press freedom award
Tanzania’s Maxence Melo is among six journalists who will receive the 2019 International Press Freedom Awards from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Mr Melo...
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Gas deal to seal Kenyatta legacy, fix trade disputes
Tanzania and Kenya have agreed in principle to start trading in natural gas, with officials hopeful that the deal will help end the persistent trade...
Tanzania minister hints missing journalist Azory Gwanda may be dead
Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Paramagamba Kabudi has appeared to say that a journalist who went missing in 2017 may have died. BBC Focus on Africa‘s Peter...
Tanzania says elephant, rhino populations rebounding after anti-poaching crackdown
Elephant and rhino populations in Tanzania have begun to rebound after a government crackdown dismantled organised criminal networks involved in industrial-scale poaching, the country’s presidency...
President urges Tanzania’s women to ‘set ovaries free’, have more babies to boost economy
President John Magufuli urged Tanzania’s women to “set your ovaries free” and bear more children as a way to help boost the economy into a...
Tanzania’s Magufuli dismisses concerns over dam in nature park
Tanzanian President John Magufuli downplayed fears Tuesday that a hydro-electric dam planned for a fabled nature reserve would affect the environment, despite Unesco expressing “grave...
Wife of missing Kenyan trader narrates abduction ordeal in Tanzania
DAR ES SALAAM, Veronica Kundya, the wife of a Kenyan businessman, Mr Raphael Ongangi, who was reported missing in Dar es Salaam says she fears...
Tanzania summons Kenyan envoy over MP’s ‘xenophobic’ remarks
Tanzania has summoned Kenyan High Commissioner to Dar es Salaam Dan Kazungu to explain ‘xenophobic’ remarks made by Kenyan MP Charles Njagua threatening to have...
Dengue fever kills 4 in Tanzania, as 4,000 diagnosed with disease
Four people have died in Tanzania as a result of the dengue fever and more than 4,000 others have been diagnosed with the disease, the...
Tanzanian court sentences 3 to death for religious-fuelled murder
A court in Tanzania has sentenced three Muslims to be hanged for decapitating four Christians in 2015 during an outbreak of violence fuelled by religion,...
