Tanzania: How Community Radio Is Powering Tanzania's Climate Resilience

In many villages, people may not have smartphones or internet, but they always have a radio. When forecasts are delivered in the local language, through voices they know,… Read more »

Tanzania: Zanzibar's Battle to Save Endangered Turtles Intensifies As Global Study Exposes Deadly Microplastic Threat

On a warm morning at Matemwe, a small crowd gathers behind a rope barrier as the sand begins to tremble. A tiny head pushes through a soft mound of earth, then another, and… Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania's Post-Election Turmoil Deepens Economic and Social Woes

At dawn in Manzese, a dusty township on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, silence hangs where the sounds of commerce once roared. The township, usually crowded with street cooks,… Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania's Pandemic Fund Ushers in a New Era of Health Preparedness

When COVID-19 hit Tanzania in 2020, Alfred Kisena's life was torn apart. The 51-year-old teacher still remembers the night he learned that his wife, Maria, had succumbed to the… Read more »

Tanzania: Drought-Hit Tanzania's Villages Confront Harshest Reality of Climate Change

Farmers in Tanzania's drought-hit Dodoma region offer a potent message for negotiators heading to COP30 in Brazil: climate justice is not an abstract slogan. It is a water trough… Read more »

Tanzania: Toxic Air in Tanzania's Port City Threatens Millions, Researchers Warn

On a hot afternoon in Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam's bustling commercial hub, the air is a swirling mix of diesel exhaust, charcoal smoke and dust kicked up by the shuffle of feet.… Read more »

Tanzania: The Cost of Conservation--How Tanzania Is Erasing the Maasai Identity

The removal of tens of thousands of Maasai from Ngorongoro to Msomera is part of a disturbing global trend known as "fortress conservation," where Indigenous people are cast as… Read more »

East Africa: Tanzania and Uganda - Bad Places to Be an Opposition Politician

In East Africa's Tanzania and Uganda, political tensions are rising as they prepare for the next elections. Tanzania goes to the polls in October 2025, while Uganda's presidential… Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania Champions Aquatic Foods At UN Ocean Conference in Nice

With less than six harvest seasons left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the urgency to find transformative solutions to end hunger, protect the oceans, and build… Read more »

Tanzania: Chumbe Island - How Tanzania Is Leading the Charge to Save Our Oceans

Under the surface of Tanzania's turquoise waters, a miracle unfolds quietly every day. Read more »

Tanzania: Waves of Change - From the Glittering Shores of Nice to Struggling Seaweed Farmers in Zanzibar

The late afternoon sun sparkles on the waters of the French Riviera as yachts dock at the Port of Nice with mechanical grace. A tram glides past palm-lined boulevards, where… Read more »

Tanzania: What Rural Communities in Tanzania Need to Know About Carbon Trading and Land Rights

As global demand for carbon credits rises, Tanzania has become a magnet for carbon offset projects. From Loliondo in Arusha to Kiteto in Manyara, foreign firms and conservation… Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania's Women Miners Digging for Equality in a Male-Dominated Industry

Under the scorching Tanzanian sun, Neema Mushi wipes sweat from her dust-covered face and swings her pickaxe into the earth. The impact sends dust swirling into the air, coating… Read more »

Tanzania: Trapped By Tradition - the Widows of Ukerewe and the Ritual They Cannot Escape

The night after her husband was laid to rest, 24-year-old Vivian Magesa sat in the dimly lit brick-walled house, surrounded by women from her late husband's family. She had spent… Read more »

Tanzania: The Ocean Creeps in - Tanzanian Coastal Communities Fight a Losing Battle

What started with a 'salty' cup of tea ended with one couple losing their home to climate-change-induced rising sea levels. Solutions, like sea walls, restoration of mangroves, and… Read more »

Tanzania: International Women's Day, 2025 - in Zanzibar, Women Turn the Tide With Sponge Farming

In the early morning, as the tide pulls away, Zulfa Abdallah ties her scarf tightly around her head. She adjusts her goggles, places a snorkel across her forehead, and wades into… Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzanian Speaker Calls for Urgent Investment in Youth to Harness Demographic Dividend

Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament and President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Tulia Akson, has called for bold and immediate investments in young people to unlock the… Read more »

Tanzania: How Tanzania's Farmers, Pastoralists Paid the Price for a World Bank Project

A hush had fallen over Mbarali District, but it was not the quiet of peace--it was the silence of uncertainty. Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzanians With HIV Left in Crisis As USAID Funding Ends

At 9 a.m. on Monday, Mariam Msemwa clutched her clinic card tightly as she stood in line at Bagamoyo District Hospital's HIV Clinic in Tanzania's coastal region. The 19-year-old… Read more »

Tanzania: Pemba's Woman Salt Farmers Forge Livelihoods Amid Climate Woes

For female artisanal salt farmers in Pemba, salt production is both their livelihood and their struggle. In this deeply patriarchal Muslim community, the gleaming piles of white… Read more »