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

Ivory smuggling suspect arrested

Tuesday, December 23rd 2014, 16:32
related countries: Kenya

A Kenyan businessman suspected of being behind an international ivory smuggling ring has been arrested in Tanzania.
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VIDEO: Clove price hits Tanzanian farmers

Wednesday, December 17th 2014, 12:23

Following dramatic price falls, clove farmers in Tanzania are calling for more government help to sustain a crop they have been farming for generations.
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Tanzania AG quits amid fraud claims

Wednesday, December 17th 2014, 11:16

Tanzania's Attorney General Frederick Werema resigns, making him the first casualty of a major corruption scandal that has rocked the government.
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Tanzania's albino community: 'Killed like animals'

Tuesday, December 9th 2014, 16:24

Trying to protect Tanzania's albino community from attack
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VIDEO: Albinos 'being killed like animals'

Tuesday, December 9th 2014, 7:51

A new campaign launched in Tanzania aims to protect albino people after a rise in the number of them being murdered.
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Tips from Tanzanian ice cream maker

Tuesday, December 2nd 2014, 0:11

Marketing tips from Tanzania's ice cream entrepreneur
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VIDEO: Africa's first underwater hotel

Monday, December 1st 2014, 11:20
related places: Pemba, Zanzibar

BBC Africa's Salim Kikeke visits the first underwater hotel which has opened off the island of Pemba, part of the archipelago of Zanzibar, in Tanzania.
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Tanzania PM caught in corruption row

Thursday, November 27th 2014, 12:59

Tanzania's prime minister is under parliamentary pressure to resign over alleged fraudulent payments worth $120m (£76m) to an energy firm.
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China officials in 'ivory spree'

Thursday, November 6th 2014, 16:37
related countries: China

Officials travelling with Chinese President Xi Jinping to Tanzania went on a "buying spree" for illegal ivory, an environmental activist group says.
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Tanzania arrests for 'witch' deaths

Friday, October 10th 2014, 14:48

The Tanzanian authorities charge 23 villagers with murder after seven people accused of witchcraft were burned alive on Monday.
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Guilty plea in US embassy bombings

Saturday, September 20th 2014, 1:50
related countries: Egypt, Kenya, United States
related places: New York

An Egyptian man accused of helping to plan the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania pleads guilty in a New York court.
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VIDEO: Guilty pleas in US embassy bombings

Saturday, September 20th 2014, 1:45
related countries: Egypt, Kenya, United States
related places: New York

An Egyptian man accused of helping to plan the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has pleaded guilty in federal court in New York.
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Blast fishing destroying Tanzania's marine habitats

Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 23:33

Blast fishing leaves Tanzania’s coral reefs in rubble
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Human body parts dumped in Tanzania

Tuesday, July 22nd 2014, 12:09
related places: Dar es Salaam

Eight people from a Tanzanian medical institute are arrested after 85 bags containing human body parts are found in the city of Dar es Salaam.
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Blast hits Tanzania restaurant

Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 15:07
related places: Arusha

Eight people have been injured in a bomb blast at a restaurant in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, officials say.
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VIDEO: The gemstone mined by child labour

Thursday, June 19th 2014, 21:16

The precious blue tanzanite stone has become one of the most coveted gemstones in the world, but it is mined by underage workers in Mererani, Tanzania.
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Tanzania arrests over albino killing

Wednesday, May 14th 2014, 12:15

Two witch doctors in Tanzania are arrested after a woman with albinism was hacked to death for her body parts, police say.
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Killed Rwandan 'was rebel adviser'

Wednesday, March 26th 2014, 18:50
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Africa

A murdered ex-Rwandan intelligence chief was advising South African and Tanzanian intelligence as they prepared to send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo to battle M23, the Rwandan-backed rebel group, the BBC learns.
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VIDEO: Tanzania won't sell ivory stockpile

Tuesday, February 25th 2014, 11:56

Tanzanian Natural Resources and Tourism Minister Lazaro Nyalandu has told HARDtalk the country would put its stockpile of ivory "beyond economic use".
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