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

Mass albino-trade witchdoctor arrests

Thursday, March 12th 2015, 13:48

More than 200 traditional healers and witchdoctors are arrested in Tanzania in a crackdown on the murder of albino people for their body parts.
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Dozens dead in Tanzania bus crash

Wednesday, March 11th 2015, 16:15
related places: Iringa

Two lorries and a bus have collided in Tanzania's highland region of Iringa, killing 41 people, police tell the BBC.
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Emwazi 'wanted to harm Tanzania'

Monday, March 9th 2015, 16:13

Mohammed Emwazi, the man otherwise known as "Jihadi John", wanted to carry out "acts of terrorism" in Tanzania, one of its top officials believes.
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Officer recalls 'drunk' Emwazi arrest

Sunday, March 8th 2015, 2:55

Mohammed Emwazi, the man who went on to become "Jihadi John", was deported from Tanzania for being drunk and abusive, a police officer says.
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VIDEO: Emwazi 'deported for being drunk'

Sunday, March 8th 2015, 0:17

Islamic State fighter Mohammed Emwazi was deported from Tanzania in 2009 for being drunk and abusive, rather than for terrorism-related reasons, the BBC is told.
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Tanzania rounds up 32 witchdoctors

Friday, March 6th 2015, 20:03

Tanzanian police arrest 32 witchdoctors as part of the country's campaign to halt the murder of albinos for their body parts.
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Tanzania albino killers face death

Thursday, March 5th 2015, 14:12

Four people, including the victim's husband, are sentenced to death in Tanzania after being found guilty of murdering an albino woman.
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Tanzanians die in heavy floods

Wednesday, March 4th 2015, 11:15

Flooding in north-western Tanzania has killed at least 38 people and left hundreds of others homeless, police tell the BBC.
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Tanzanian vow to end albino killings

Tuesday, March 3rd 2015, 15:16

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete pledges to end the killings of albinos, which he says has brought shame on the East African nation.
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Tanzanian albino boy found mutilated

Wednesday, February 18th 2015, 10:43

The body of an albino boy who went missing on Sunday is found in Tanzania with his limbs hacked off in what appears to be a witchcraft killing.
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Tanzania albino boy kidnapped

Tuesday, February 17th 2015, 19:06

Police fear that a toddler kidnapped from his home in Tanzania will be killed and sold to witchdoctors, who use albino body parts for rituals.
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VIDEO: Africa grooves to Bongo Flava

Wednesday, January 21st 2015, 10:01

A Tanzanian musical style, known as Bongo Flava, is becoming very popular across Africa.
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Tanzania reward for missing albino

Monday, January 19th 2015, 15:28

Tanzania offers a reward for information leading to the recovery of a missing albino girl feared to have been kidnapped for her body parts.
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Tanzania imposes ban on witchdoctors

Tuesday, January 13th 2015, 16:40

Tanzania outlaws witchdoctors in a move intended to stop the killing of albino people for their body parts.
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Tanzania-Zambia rail route disrupted

Monday, January 12th 2015, 19:21
related countries: Zambia

Train services between Tanzania and Zambia are paralysed by a strike by Tanzanian workers who say they have not been paid for five months.
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VIDEO: How to beat traffic in Dar es Salaam

Monday, January 12th 2015, 1:29
related places: Dar es Salaam

BBC Africa's Salim Kikeke reports on new ways to beat the traffic in Tanzania's economic capital, Dar es Salaam.
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In pictures: Tanzania acrobat school

Thursday, January 1st 2015, 2:34

Pictures of Tanzania's budding acrobats in training
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Absentee pilots strand passengers

Monday, December 29th 2014, 18:58

More than 100 passengers are stranded after pilots at Tanzania's main airport failed to report to work following their Christmas break, officials say.
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Tanzania sacking over 'corruption'

Tuesday, December 23rd 2014, 18:04

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete fires senior government minister Anna Tibaijuka after she is accused of wrongly taking $1m from a businessman.
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