East Africa: Lake Victoria Countries Working to Fight Crime, Improve Community Relations

Officials from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are meeting for the fourth time in less than two years to find ways to more effectively fight transnational crimes around the Lake… Read more »

Tanzania: U.S. Set to Extend African Railway Project Through Tanzania

The U.S. government says it is set to expand the Lobito Corridor - a railway project that runs from Angola to Zambia through the Democratic Republic of the Congo - all the way to… Read more »

Tanzania: Conservationists Say Large-Tusked Elephants On Kenya-Tanzania Border Are Endangered

Scientists and conservationists in Kenya are sounding the alarm over the killing of elephants with large tusks. According to scientists, the elephants were killed by trophy hunters… Read more »

Tanzania: Stop Forcing Indigenous Tribes Off Ancestral Lands - HRW to Tanzania

Human Rights Watch is accusing Tanzania of forcing indigenous tribes from their ancestral land in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In a report released Wednesday, the rights group… Read more »

Tanzania: Malawi's Maize Import Ban Forces WFP to Mill Grain From Tanzania

Despite ongoing food shortages, the government of Malawi last month banned the import of unmilled maize from Kenya and Tanzania, citing concerns about the spread of maize lethal… Read more »

Malawi: Malawi Bans Maize Imports From Kenya, Tanzania Over Disease

Malawi, which already is suffering from food shortages, this week banned the import of unmilled maize from Kenya and Tanzania over concerns that the spread of maize lethal necrosis… Read more »

Uganda: Rights Group Claims Company Intimidates Communities Along Tanzania-Uganda Oil Pipeline

The French oil company TotalEnergies coerces and intimidates communities affected by the $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline project in Tanzania and Uganda, a human rights… Read more »

Tanzania: UN Sending Home Peacekeepers Implicated in Sexual Abuse

The United Nations said Friday that it is sending home a unit of 60 Tanzanian peacekeepers from the Central African Republic, after a preliminary investigation found credible… Read more »

East Africa: Peace Talks Between Ethiopian Govt, Oromo Rebel Group Continue in Tanzania

Peace talks between Ethiopia's federal government and the rebel Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) have started in Tanzania's semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar. Read more »

Africa: South Africa's Facebook Rapist Arrested in Tanzania

Officials in Tanzania say they have arrested South African national Thabo Bester, a convicted murder known as the Facebook Rapist. Read more »

Tanzania: VP Harris Praises President for Strengthening Democracy

Human rights activists are voicing appreciation for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's recognition of efforts by Tanzania's president to strengthen democracy in the country. Read more »

Mozambique: Tanzania Sends Relief to Cyclone-Hit Mozambique

Tanzania has started to dispatch food aid and self-storage equipment to neighboring Mozambique to help thousands of people affected by tropical cyclone Freddy. More than 190 people… Read more »

Tanzania: Unidentified Illness Kills Five in Tanzania, Sparks Ebola Fears

Health officials in Tanzania are investigating an illness that killed five people in the country's northwest with Ebola-like symptoms, raising fears that it could be the deadly… Read more »

Tanzania: Opposition Welcomes President's Pledge to Restore Competitive Politics

Tanzania's opposition has welcomed President Samia Suluhu Hassan's pledge to restore competitive politics and review the country's constitution. The longstanding demands from the… Read more »

Tanzania: Opposition Leader Tundu Lissu Returns From Exile

Tanzania opposition leader Tundu Lissu has returned to the country from self-imposed exile in Belgium, where he had lived since surviving an assassination attempt in 2017 when he… Read more »

Tanzania: Body of Tanzanian Killed in Russia's War On Ukraine Heads Home for Burial

The body of 33-year-old Tanzanian Nemes Tarimo, who was killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine, is returning home for burial. Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzanian Student Killed in Battle in Ukraine

The family of a Tanzanian student who was in prison in Russia says it has confirmation that he was killed fighting for Russia's Wagner Group of mercenaries in Ukraine. Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania's Government Lifts Ban On Political Rallies

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a six-year-old ban on political rallies. Her predecessor, the late John Magufuli, banned public rallies in 2016, one year after… Read more »

Tanzania: Shrinking Ice Cap On Kilimanjaro Threatens Tourism in Tanzania

U.N. experts say the ice cap on Africa's biggest peak, Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, is among world-famous glaciers predicted to melt by 2050 due to climate change. Read more »