News: Tanzania

We have started to collect the most important news related to Tanzania in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Tanzania: news

Tanzania collapse death toll rises

Monday, April 1st 2013, 9:10
related places: Dar es Salaam

At least 30 bodies have now been retrieved from a building which collapsed in Tanzania's Dar es Salaam on Friday.
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Tanzania collapse 'leaves 17 dead'

Saturday, March 30th 2013, 7:48
related places: Dar es Salaam

At least 17 people are killed after a multi-storey building collapses in the main Tanzanian city, Dar es Salaam, local officials say.
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Tanzania collapse 'traps dozens'

Friday, March 29th 2013, 18:47
related places: Dar es Salaam

At least three people are killed and dozens more trapped after a multi-storey building collapses in the main Tanzanian city, Dar es Salaam, rescuers say.
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New Chinese leader hails Africa ties

Monday, March 25th 2013, 13:34
related countries: China

New President Xi Jinping praises China's "sincere friendship with Africa" as he visits Tanzania - his second foreign trip since taking power.
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iPhone turned into microscope for £5

Wednesday, March 13th 2013, 16:23

Scientists in Tanzania turned an iPhone into an amateur microscope to check schoolchildren for intestinal worms.
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New wave of albino attacks condemned

Tuesday, March 5th 2013, 17:39

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay condemns a recent spate of "horrific attacks" on people with albinism in Tanzania, including the murder of a young boy.
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VIDEO: Irish climber dies on Kilimanjaro

Thursday, January 3rd 2013, 13:58
related countries: Ireland
related places: Kilimanjaro

The Irish mountaineer and charity fundraiser Ian McKeever has died while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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Irish climber in mountain tragedy

Thursday, January 3rd 2013, 13:13
related countries: Ireland

Irish mountaineer Ian McKeever is killed while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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Flamingo breeding spectacle begins

Tuesday, November 13th 2012, 0:41

Huge numbers of lesser flamingos begin breeding at Tanzania's Lake Natron in one of nature's greatest spectacles.
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First trains run in Dar es Salaam

Monday, October 29th 2012, 16:53
related places: Dar es Salaam

The first-ever commuter train service in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, is launched to ease congestion on roads.
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Zanzibar riots over absent cleric

Thursday, October 18th 2012, 19:28
related places: Zanzibar

More than 50 people are arrested followings two days of riots on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar sparked by a missing Muslim cleric.
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Top cleric arrested in Tanzania

Wednesday, October 17th 2012, 17:53

Controversial Tanzanian Muslim cleric Sheikh Ponda Issa Ponda is arrested for stoking religious hatred, police say.
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Malawi 'refers border row to AU'

Wednesday, October 17th 2012, 14:07

Malawi's leader Joyce Banda asks the African Union to intervene to resolve the escalating border dispute with Tanzania, state media reports.
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Tanzania church attack arrests

Monday, October 15th 2012, 18:39
related places: Dar es Salaam

Police in Tanzania arrest 126 people after last week's attacks on five churches in the main city, Dar es Salaam, a police commander says.
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Tanzania probes fake HIV drugs

Thursday, October 11th 2012, 18:37

An investigation into the circulation of fake HIV drugs in Tanzania could lead to criminal prosecutions, the health minister tells the BBC.
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Tanzania's invisible web revolution

Tuesday, October 2nd 2012, 7:11

But will Tanzanian villagers notice fibre-optic revolution?
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Hopes fade after Zanzibar sinking

Thursday, July 19th 2012, 17:08
related places: Zanzibar

Hopes are fading for more than 80 people still missing after a Tanzanian ferry sank near Zanzibar's main island, officials say.
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VIDEO: Tanzania ferry sinks off Zanzibar

Thursday, July 19th 2012, 3:56
related places: Zanzibar

A ferry carrying at least 250 people has sunk off the coast of Tanzania near the island of Zanzibar.
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Tanzania ferry sinks off Zanzibar

Wednesday, July 18th 2012, 19:29
related places: Zanzibar

At least 24 people are killed and dozens more are missing as a ferry carrying about 280 passengers sinks near the island of Zanzibar.
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