Africa: Tanzania

Interview: Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Nobel laureate

Jun 26, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. He tau ...

Tanzanian officers are forcing Maasai people out of their ancestral land in Loliondo, Ngorongoro District to build a game reserve.

Tanzania: Halt brutal security operation in Loliondo

Jun 17, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Tanzanian authorities must immediately halt the violent forced eviction of the Indigenous Maasai community in Lolion ...

Tanzania bans donkey slaughter to stop risk of extinction

Jun 16, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

The Tanzanian Minister for Livestock and Fisheries, Hon. Mashimba Mashauri Ndaki, has declared a ban on donkey slaug ...

The Maasai community have been living in the Ngorongoro reserve for more than a century. By JOSEPH EID AFPFile

Tanzania starts moving Maasai out of Ngorongoro reserve

Jun 16, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Tanzania on Thursday began relocating Maasai pastoralists from the famed Ngorongoro conservation area in a move that rig ...

The two-percent tax will come into effect in July if parliament approves it. By Daniel Hayduk AFPFile

Tanzania targets internet giants with new tax

Jun 15, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Tanzania will introduce a digital tax this year, the country's finance minister said, in a move targeting global interne ...

The Masai say the government seeks to expel them from a part of their historical land in order to organise safaris and private hunting expeditions for tourists. By TONY KARUMBA AFP

Tanzania policeman killed in protest over wildlife protection area

Jun 11, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

A policeman has been killed in northeast Tanzania during a clash with Masai herders protesting the cordoning off of land ...

Tundu Lissu was Chadema's candidate in the 2020 presidential election, but lives in exile in Belgium following an attempt on his life in 2017. By STRINGER AFPFile

Tanzania opposition urges exiled members to return home

Jun 10, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Tanzania's main opposition party has urged its exiled members to come home, telling them not to fear for their lives aft ...

Tanzania is famed for its wildlife-rich national parks and the highest mountain in Africa. By TONY KARUMBA AFPFile

Tanzania rescinds decision to lift ban on wildlife exports

Jun 5, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Tanzania on Sunday reversed its decision to lift a controversial ban on wildlife exports, a day after the move triggered ...

Tanzania is known for its wildlife-rich national parks and the highest mountain in Africa. By TONY KARUMBA AFPFile

Tanzania Lifts Ban On Wildlife Exports

Jun 4, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Tanzania is temporarily rolling back a ban on wildlife exports that was in force for six years to safeguard protected an ...

Tanzania approves US$1.7 million to construct permanent structure for African Co...

Jun 3, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

The government of Tanzania has approved a budget of about US$1.7million to commence the construction of the African ...

Uber -- founded in 2009 -- arrived in Tanzania in 2016. By DENIS CHARLET AFPFile

Uber suspends services in Tanzania over new fare rules

Apr 15, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

US ride-hailing giant Uber has suspended its services in Tanzania, saying government legislation that raises fares and c ...

People read newspapers on display in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on March 18, 2021. Reuters

‘A rush of relief’: Tanzanian investigative newspaper allowed to publish after 5...

Mar 21, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

In 2017, Simon Mkina was the publisher and chief editor of the muckraking Tanzanian newspaper Mawio when auth ...

$Tanzania has allowed indigenous communities such as the Maasai to live within some national parks, but the relationship between pastoralists and wildlife can be fractious. By Joseph EID AFPFile$

Tanzania Maasai torn over possible eviction from Ngorongoro reserve

Mar 18, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

For over a century, Tanzania's Maasai pastoralists have shared the famed Ngorongoro conservation area with zebras, eleph ...

Certified seed gives boost to cassava farmers in Tanzania

Mar 17, 2022 | Africa: Tanzania

Cassava is one of the crops powering the engine of agricultural development in Tanzania. In the latest breakthrough, ...