Tanzania

Tanzania swears in Samia Hassan as president, claiming 98% of vote
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Maternal health program saves lives of women and infants in Tanzania
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New discovery suggests humans started using bone tools earlier than previous estimations
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Africa’s promise of electricity for 300 million people
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Arts, Culture & Media
Series of reimagined African folk tales launches on Netflix
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Ukraine
Wagner mercenary group recruits Africans held in Russian prisons
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Tanzania submits first Oscar entry in more than 20 years
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Ukraine
Ukrainian, Russian tourists stranded abroad
Vials of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in Jackson, Miss.
Top of The World
Moderna to build manufacturing plant in Africa
Abdulrazak Gurnah during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017.
Books
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: An introduction to the man and his writing
In this image made from video, Rwandan policemen patrol near the Amarula Palma hotel in Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021.
20 years after 9/11, global terror threats persist in Africa
A Maasai man receives a call on his mobile phone.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Wrong number? Let’s chat:’ Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials to make connections
John Magufuli wears glasses a green shirt and speaks at a podium with a green background
Obituary
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at 61
A sign above a roadway is shown for Gold Spa as cars pass by on a rainy afternoon.
Top of The World
Asian American community on edge after deadly shooting in Atlanta
In this March 26, 2020, file photo, a boy wears a mask as a preventative measure against the spread of the coronavirus, as he navigates floodwaters mixed with garbage following heavy rains, in the Kibera area of Nairobi, Kenya.
The Big Fix
‘Connecting with God by caring for the environment’: Franciscan monk in Kenya shares Christmas message
Chadema presidential candidate Tundu Lissu casts his vote at Ntewa Primary School's polling station in Ikungi town Singida region, Tanzania, Oct.28, 2020. 
Elections
Tanzanian opposition leaders arrested following election
Three poll workers wearing white shirts and hats sit at a table together and sort through papers
Elections
Tanzania’s internet restrictions during election are ‘despicable,’ digital rights activist says
A nurse takes a swab sample at a drive-through coronavirus test site at the University of Texas El Paso in El Paso, Texas, Oct. 27, 2020.
Top of The World
El Paso and Ciudad Juárez face COVID-19 surge; Tanzania imposes internet restrictions; Iran building new centrifuges
A long line of people are shown standing outside of a polling location in Tanzania.
Elections
Tanzania votes but ‘widespread irregularities’ are claimed
Several white airplanes with Kenya Airways logo on them in red and green parked in airport.
Business
International flights resume in East Africa
A woman with a green shirt, silver hair and a wrinkled face smiles
Environment
Jane Goodall: 60 years of research, activism and inspiration
A person washes a wall with painted big yellow hammer and sickle of the Chinese Communist Party.
Critical State
Illiberalism isn’t just rising — it’s spreading (Part II)
Mike Pompeo in a suit and face mask in front of a plane and the US and Israeli flags
Top of The World
Pompeo visits Israel; Europe wants a summer travel season; Lebanon counters second virus wave
A painting of a woman
Coronavirus Art
During social distancing, artists collaborate on ‘Long Distance Art’
President Magufuli stands in front of a podium.
Human rights
Activists in Tanzania spend the holidays behind bars amid crackdown on free expression
A group of Tanzanians wearing bright colorful clothes ride in a boat.
Climate Change
Nearly swallowed by the sea, a small island in Tanzania fights against climate change
Sign at a guesthouse reads "there is space" in Swahili
Sexuality
Tanzania’s stance on homosexuality points to an increasingly repressive political agenda
A young Tanzanian woman speaks to a male doctor.
Development
Tanzanian president bluntly attacks contraception, saying high birth rates are good for economy
Burlington, Vermont based African group A2VT
Global Hit
This Afropop band’s founders are both refugees from Africa, but they met on a Vermont soccer field
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Culture
Can entrepreneurship empower Zanzibar’s young women?
British primatologist Jane Goodall
Science
Dr. Jane Goodall on her work with chimpanzees, and the new documentary ‘JANE’
The documentary, Machines, takes the audience into a textile millin Sachin, India. It is one of film critic Matt Holzman's picks for foreign documentaries to see this summer.
Arts
Four international documentaries to see before the summer ends
Musa of the Tanzania Albinism Collective
Music
Ostracized in Tanzania, this community of albinos sing songs of acceptance
A view of the eclipse on Sept. 1, 2016.
Science
What a solar eclipse and laser physics could teach us about malaria-carrying mosquitoes
Development & Education
Animal populations plummeting at Nairobi National Park
“In Tanzania, it is as if we don’t exist,” says Salumu Kundaya Kidomwita, a Barabaig cattle herder whose name translates to “Warthog.” At the age of 60, Kidomwita is facing his second eviction in the last decade. After being pushed out of his home by a ri
Conflict
PHOTOS: Members of evicted tribe say they’re left with nowhere to go
Elias Stariko (L) sits next to wife Farida Bwire, as he holds their son at the Golden Valley English Medium School, a school sponsored by Under the Same Sun (UTSS), in Geita November 24, 2011.
Conflict
An island refuge for Tanzania’s albino people
Burundi refugee camp
Conflict
Burundi’s last civil war killed 300,000. A new one is coming
A European honey bee carries pollen back to its hive.
Environment
With pollinators in decline around the world, conservationists turn to traditional farmers for answers
Ninety five percent of urban Tanzanians use charcoal for cooking fuel, and the trade supports more than a million jobs. But charcoal production is taking a massive toll on the country's forests. After a failed attempt to ban the trade the country is now t
Environment
Tanzania is trying to turn the charcoal trade from an enemy to a friend of the forest
Tanzanian police arrest "Ivory Queen"
Justice
A notorious Chinese Ivory trafficker is caught by Tanzanian authorities
Contestants on Oxfam's "Female Food Heroes"
Development
Reality TV’s new stars are Tanzanian farmers
Fourteen year-old Nuru Sheha studies at night in the light of solar-powered LED lights at home in the village of Matemwe, on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. He family's first electrical system was installed by one of Zanzibar's 13 "solar mamas," illiter
Environment
Zanzibar’s ‘Solar Mamas’ flip the switch on rural homes, gender roles
Girls Forum
Global Politics
Saving teen girls from early marriage — and mutilation
Girls Club at the Merawi Primary School in Ethiopia
Saving Innocence: The Global Fight to End Child Marriage
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Casimir Bizimungu, Rwanda’s Minister of Health, has been living in a safe house in Arusha, Tanzania since his acquittal by an international tribunal there of charges related to the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. He has no passport, his family has re
Justice
Acquitted of genocide, a handful of Rwandans live a life in limbo
Stephen (left) and Shadrack (center) Osero from Kenya discuss their project for using human waste as a source of green power at this year's Climate CoLab conference at MIT. The brothers were among the winners of this year's CoLab contest, which crowdsourc
Environment
An MIT project crowdsources local solutions in the fight against climate change
Bitcoin Factory in China
Global Scan
This is where bitcoins are made
Tanzanian Hip-Hop: A Primer
Dansi: A Primer
Live from Bongoland: The History of Tanzania’s Music Economy
Environment
When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists
Development & Education
Infographic: The Human Toll of Infertility in Africa
Global Politics
Deadly wildfire in Arizona claims 19 firefighters
Business, Economics and Jobs
Asian market in Missouri becomes hub of many different immigrant communities
Environment
Citizen science project needs your help to catalog Africa’s great animals
Environment
Lion populations on the decline as African savannas disappear
Development & Education
Can solar power Tanzania?
Yugoslavia, Zaire and other defunct geo names
Health & Medicine
Yogurt could potentially slow spread of HIV