Tanzania

Scenes

Meet the Tanzanian farmer revolutionising the horticultural landscape

In partnership with Media City

As a young farmer, you have to sacrifice a lot. To forgo a town life as a young person, to come and live in a village like this, is a big challenge

15/03/2023

Tech News

These giant rats with hi-tech backpacks are trained to save your life

The rats are being trained to sniff out humans in mock disaster zones and will be kitted out to communicate with victims.

11/11/2022

Tanzania

At least 19 dead after Tanzania airliner crashes near Lake Victoria

The Precision Air plane crash landed shortly before landing at Bukoba airport due to inclement weather, authorities said on Sunday.

06/11/2022

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Firefighters continue battling fire on Mount Kilimanjaro

A wildfire that officials thought was under control on Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, has reignited, according to Tanzanian officials

27/10/2022

Scenes

Meet the Tanzanian film academy showcasing Africa's richness

In partnership with Media City

As Africans, our voices are often left unheard. By initiating this hub for filmmakers and storytellers, we can tell our stories as a continent.

03/10/2022

Nature

Tanzania's ban on live animal exports is back after one day of outrage

The controversial decision was reversed not long after it caused public outrage in the East African nation.

06/06/2022

Destinations

Zanzibar: Plan your 2022 trip to this stunning island

As tourism revives in Zanzibar, the island offers its visitors an almost private experience for less money than you'd imagine.

04/11/2021

Tanzania

Tanzania's President John Magufuli dies aged 61

President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died.

17/03/2021

Tanzania

Watch: Bee-keeping scheme transforms landscapes and women's lives

This bee-keeping initiative inTanzania is giving 1,200 Maasai women financial independence, while turning them into conservationists of the land they live on.

14/10/2019

Tanzania

Man drowns proposing to his girlfriend during idyllic getaway

"We never got to embrace and celebrate the beginning of the rest of our lives together, as the best day of our lives turned into the worst, in the cruellest twist of fate imaginable," Kenesha Antoine wrote on Facebook following the death of her boyfriend.

23/09/2019

Tanzania

At least 57 dead in Tanzania fuel tanker explosion

At least 57 people have died after a tanker truck exploded in eastern Tanzania on Saturday.

10/08/2019

World

Tapping into natural skin care market in Tanzania

The demand for organic cosmetics is fast growing across the continent. Hellen Dause is determined to make the most of this trend with her own brand of skin care based in Zanzibar.

24/02/2019

Tanzania

Captain arrested in Tanzania ferry disaster

The death toll of a ferry that capsized in Tanzania reaches 224

21/09/2018

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Curious cheetah climbs into safari vehicle

Passengers remain silent as the animal explores their vehicle.

30/03/2018

Tanzania

Watch: Wild cheetahs enter tourist's car on safari

Britton Hayes got more than he bargained for on safari when two wild cheetahs pounced on his vehicle.

29/03/2018

Global Japan

ABE Initiative graduates bring their skills home to Africa

Students from the ABE Initiative explain how they put their training and skills from Japan to use in their home countries.

15/03/2018

Africanews

Tanzania charges 32 people with killing, burning five 'witches'

A Tanzanian court has charged 32 people with murder after five women suspected of witchcraft were beaten to death, and their corpses burned, in a move which could help to deter such killings.

24/08/2017

Tanzania

Don’t stop pregnant girls from returning to school, urge NGOs

01/07/2017

Tanzania

32 schoolchildren killed in Tanzania bus crash

It is being described as a “national tragedy.

07/05/2017

Africanews

Four Tanzanian children with albinism in US for medical treatment

Body parts of albinos are highly sought in some African countries, where some mistakenly believe they bring wealth and good luck

26/03/2017

Tanzania

Babies targeted as FGM victims get younger, say campaigners

Babies are among the victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), campaigners claim, reflecting a growing trend of younger girls being targeted.

06/02/2017

Tanzania

Tanzania quake kills 13 and injures nearly 200

At least 13 people have reportedly died and nearly 200 others injured in northern Tanzania after a 5.

11/09/2016

Tanzania

Tanzania ruling party's Magufuli wins presidential vote, officials say

The candidate of Tanzania's ruling CCM party has been declared the winner of Sunday's hotly disputed election.

29/10/2015

Tanzania

Tanzania in tightest election in decades

Tanzania is in the grip of one its closest elections in decades. Tanzania's elections expected to be country’s tightest in history

25/10/2015

World

How health and hygiene go hand in hand with education

04/04/2014

World

Educating the green guardians of the future

15/03/2013