Tanzania News Archives

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, October 30 The UN refugee agency on Friday afternoon sent home the final group of long-term Burundian refugees in Tanzania who wanted to return, a landmark operation in ending one of the world's most protracted refugee situations.

The government has decided to partly finance expenses of presidential candidates in next year's general election.

An Albino limb can fetch thousands of dollars on the black market. Inside the lives of people suffering from albinism - and community efforts to protect them.

Dar es Salaam -- Turks are everywhere. Wherever you go, from the Far East to Latin America and from South Africa to Siberia, it is very likely that you will encounter Turks.

For most university students, the memories of their summer holidays are fading as fast as their tans.

DAR ES SALAAM, 27 October 2009 - HIV-positive Tanzanians are not taking advantage of the availability of life-prolonging anti-retroviral medication in hospitals around the country, says a senior government official.

Out of sight, out of mind. That's the way Eliamani and Alphaeus Shayo sometimes feel about their situation, tucked away in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro in eastern Africa, caring for the terminally ill.

THE FORMER deputy headteacher of Wirral Girls' Grammar School is on a mercy mission in Tanzania.

Settle Rotarian Sandy Tod is part of a team of 24 Rotarians and non-Rotarians, including doctors, engineers and education specialists, who have travelled at their own expense to the island of Ukerewe in Tanzania.

Pikeville Medical Center Cardiologist Dr. Bill Harris recently completed his goal of climbing Africa's tallest mountain.

It was meant to be a marriage of convenience that would help the parties stop the huge revenue losses they had suffered in a two-year battle for control of Kenya and Tanzania beer markets.

A delegation of 13 Tanzanian women artists will be the guests of WSOS Community Action Commission today and will share their culture with the community.

An outbreak of cholera in northern Tanzania has continued to spread, claiming 59 lives over the past two months.

Tanzania has reported progress on efforts aimed developing at an effective HIV vaccine after two years of extensive research and trials at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

Tanzanians have made significant progress since independence, but the struggle, as they say, continues, for ours is still counted among the world's ten poorest countries.

The Export Processing Zones Authority has approved 11 investment projects for the Benjamin William Mkapa Special Economic Zone that is nearing completion, according to EPZA director general Adelhelm Meru.

Only delegates from eight Mainland regions have been cleared to vote in the general election of the Tanzania Basketball Federation to be held in Dar es Salaam on October 31.

IF YOU GO What: U.N. Ambassador Augustine Mahiga speaks at SU Where: Schine Student Center, Room 304A When: Wednesday, 5 p.m. How Much: Free Julius Nyerere brought together a broken country.

Tanzania is to invite more port container terminal operators after halting a 25-year exclusivity contract given to Tanzania International Container Terminal Services.

DAR ES SALAAM, 12 October 2009 - At least 50 people have been quarantined in Tanzania's northern district of Mbulu to curb the spread of influenza H1N1, a highly contagious viral disease that killed one person last week, say health officials.

The Queen singer, who died in 1991, fled Zanzibar, Tanzania as a child with his family at a time of political unrest in the African region, and they set up home in Feltham, West London.

THEY may have been poor but you could see that they were happy. That was what Fiona Kennedy found when she spent her summer volunteering in Moshi, Tanzania.

New statistics released Monday say the autism rate in the U.S. is now 1 in 100. But thousands of parents and child advocates across the country know those statistics are inaccurate.

Around 600 cases were reported in the east African country during the last seven days, but Handeni district in the northeastern region of Tanga was hardest hit with 511 patients, spokesman Nsachris Mwamaja told journalists.

As a superstar singer, Justin Timberlake has climbed to the top of the music charts.

Twenty Tanzanian basketball coaches from nine regions boarded a Washington DC-bound flight yesterday evening where they are scheduled to attend a two-weeklong clinic.

Independence -- A big poster of Mount Kilimanjaro has hung in Johnny Stabno's Independence home for more than two decades, a constant reminder of a dream to fulfill.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Aid / Disasters Tropical Diseases Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Article Date: 01 Oct 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., recently commended Tanazanian President Jakaya Kikwete on the country's utilization of U.S. aid money and vowed her support for the country's future development projects, ...