Tanzania News

South Africa-based Elgin Engineering and the state-owned Tanzania State Mining Corporation are jointly constructing a $20 million mining equipment manufacturing facility.

A Kigali bound Tanzanian registered bus was on Saturday involved in an accident that instantly killed two Rwandan passengers.

Julita Felix, who received a microloan from Women's Global Network, makes banana beer to sell to men in her village.

Today marks a major turning point in the history of the revived East African Community.

Donors warned aid-reliant Tanzania on Thursday that rising corruption and weak accountability put next year's grants to the country at risk.

Dar Es Salaam, : TANZANIA's population will reach 109.5 million in 2050, leading to increased pressure on available resources, according to the latest State of World Population Report launched in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

Since September 2008 the world has been confronted with a world financial crisis.

The Government is preparing a local version of carbon trade arrangement under which people would earn money for planting trees as a measure to reduce global warming.

The revelation by President Jakaya Kikwete that projections for economic growth of Tanzania shows a slump of 2.8% this year due to the global financial crisis, requires a sharp refocus of the country's priorities to reverse it.

As an oil-starved East Africa intensifies its search for the product, Tanzania is expecting a drilling ship to dock next month to propel the country's off-shore exploration.

In the dock: Krishnapatnam Port Immigration Officer G.Srinivasa Rao questioning the stowaways, Martin and Selemam, at Krishnapatnam Port in Nellore district on Friday.

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Four days of heavy rains triggered a landslide that killed 12 children and eight adults near Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania, authorities said Friday.

For over a week now, the entire nation's attention has been riveted on Zanzibar, following the rare and highly unexpected meeting between two erstwhile political foes, President Amani Abeid Karume and the Civic United Front leader, Maalim Seif Shariff Hamad.

A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on Wednesday.

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Floods and landslides after three days of torrential rains killed at least 20 people and left 10 missing in northern Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region, officials said.

A landslide has killed at least 20 people in Tanzania after a torrential downpour triggered a flash flood.

Tanzania has been spared the internal strife that has blighted many African states.

The newfound camaraderie between President Amani Abeid Karume of CCM and his longtime political rival, Mr Seif Shariff Hamad of CUF, is said to be the outcome of behind-the-scenes efforts to chart a more independent future for Zanzibar.