June 05
Tanzania: As Global Demand for Gold Grows, UN Mercury Head Warns Toxic Fumes Put Women in a Motherhood Dilemma
Ask any woman miner in the Katoro goldfield in Tanzania's northern Geita region, and she will tell you that she touches toxic mercury with her bare hands when extracting gold from… Read more »
May 14
Tanzania: The GEF Leads Global Drive to Tackle Shipping Threat to Oceans
Under the warm waters off Tanzania's Mafia Island, marine scientist Asha Mgeni hovers above a coral reef she has studied for years. Small fish dart through the currents. To most… Read more »
April 21
Tanzania: Global Shipping Reforms Cast Shadow Over Tanzania's Fishing Communities
At dawn, as the sun rises across the Indian Ocean, Venance Shayo perches on the edge of his boat, hauling in a net. The sea gently ripples under the breeze and the sound of revving… Read more »
April 16
Tanzania: Shipping Industry Seeks Certainty As Experts Back Strong Net-Zero Framework
As global shipping braces for another round of high-stakes negotiations, a volatile mix of rising fuel costs, geopolitical tensions and deep political divisions is testing the… Read more »
April 07
Tanzania: Cambodia Unveils Statue Honouring Tanzanian-Born Bomb-Sniffing Rat Magawa
At Mazimbu village, not far from Tanzania's Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Stephano Jaka still remembers the night he trapped and killed a rat that had been feasting on… Read more »
March 16
Malawi: Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi Launch $7.12 Million GEF Project to Protect the Ruvuma Basin
At dawn, the Ruvuma River moves quietly through a vast wetland along the border between Tanzania and Mozambique. Its muddy waters appear calm, disturbed only by drifting logs and… Read more »
March 11
Tanzania: Tanzanian School Launches Energy Club to Promote Clean Cooking
A cloud of steam rises from a giant aluminium pot as Maria Joseph, a middle-aged cook in a toque blanche and faded apron, plants her feet firmly on the tiled kitchen floor. With… Read more »
March 02
Tanzania: How Child Labour Persists Along Zanzibar's Blue Economy
As the tide falls on Zanzibar's western coast, 13-year-old Asha* moves across the reef, her gown flapping in knee-deep water. She carries a plastic basin and a knife. Since dawn,… Read more »
January 19
Tanzania: How Extreme Weather Is Testing Tanzania's $2 Billion Electric Railway Dream
Around the world, railways are considered as pillars of climate action. Electric trains produce fewer emissions than road or air transport. Yet the experience of Tanzania's… Read more »
December 10, 2025
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 »
November 25, 2025
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 »
November 05, 2025
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 »
October 28, 2025
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 »
October 01, 2025
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 »
September 24, 2025
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 »
