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Tanzania says Mount Kilimanjaro fire largely contained

Tanzania’s prime minister says the fire burning on Mount Kilimanjaro for almost two weeks has been mostly contained after hundreds of military personnel were deployed to help

The Independent UK

Major glaciers, including Dolomites and Yosemite, to disappear by 2050 - U.N. report

Some of the world's most famous glaciers, including in the Dolomites in Italy, the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the United States and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are set to disappear by 2050 due to global warming, whatever the temperature rise scenario, according to a UNESCO report.

Reuters

You can now book a glamping holiday on the edge of a volcanic crater

The Highlands Camp in Tanzania is in a UNESCO World Heritage site, and is made up of canvas and glass-domed tents with wooden floors and a circular seating area

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Irish doctor's aid effort in Tanzania sees her rack up huge debts to give kids free chemo

Dr Trish Scanlan, who has lived in the East African country for more than 15 years, has significantly improved survival rates for kids with cancer while also battling the disease herself but declared “more work needs to be done”.

Irish Mirror

‘Monstrous’ east African oil project will emit vast amounts of carbon, data shows

Experts say crude oil pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania will produce 25 times host nations’ combined annual emissions

The Guardian - UK

Tanzania president to visit China from Nov 2-4- Chinese state media

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan will visit China from Nov. 2-4, Chinese state television reported on Thursday.

Reuters

Source of one of rarest meteorites to fall on Earth discovered by scientists

The Ivuna meteorite landed in Tanzania in December 1938

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Beckah Amani captures the chaos: ‘Growing up right now, we’re stuck in this whirlwind’

The Tanzanian-Australian artist’s debut EP whips through growing pains, schoolyard racism and climate change – and finds beauty amid it all

The Guardian - AU

Tanzania’s president calls for better birth control in country

Samia Suluhu Hassan says education, healthcare and food supply under pressure in reversal of predecessor’s stance

The Guardian - UK

Cannabis corporates should be taxed to fund mental health programmes

Mental health is the state of mental well-being that contributes to individual and population health. This state of mental well-being sustains national output and labour force productivity. But governments around the world haven’t been investing resources into addressing mental ill-health. This is despite acknowledging that economics and mental health are…

The Conversation

Tanzania’s Rufiji River: Egypt’s Response to Ethiopia’s Accusations

Egypt has completed the construction work of a massive dam body it is building on the Rufiji River in Tanzania, in a move considered as a message addressed to Ethiopia, Cairo also started preparations for retaining water to fill the reservoir of the giant Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (JNHPP). The…

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Woman, 60, moves 9,000 miles to marry man, 30, after they bonded over beach walk

Mum Deborah Babu met tribesman Saitoty, who's the same age as her daughter, while in holiday in Tanzania. He followed her to the next destination and was upset when she had to leave back to the US

Daily Mirror

Woman flew 9000 miles to marry tribesman lover with 30-year age gap

Deborah Babu first met Saitoty Babu when she was travelling in Tanzania with her daughter in October 2017.

Daily Record

‘Shocking blow to Indigenous land rights’ as court dismisses Maasai herder claim

Herders lodge appeal against ruling in their case against the Tanzanian government, which they say is violently evicting them from ancestral land

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Tanzanian Maasai lawyers to launch appeal in East African land grab court case

Tanzanian Maasai who took the Tanzanian government to a regional court over a land dispute that resulted in alleged evictions, loss of land, and in some cases, deaths, have vowed to lodge an appeal with the regional court, according to their lawyers, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU).

Daily Mirror

'I married a Tribesman I met 9,000 miles away - our 30-year age gap is nothing'

Deborah Babu, 60, wasn’t expecting to fall in love when she met her now-husband, Saitoty Babu, 30, while travelling in Tanzania with her daughter, Royce, 30, in October 2017

Al Jazeera

Regional court dismisses Maasai eviction case against Tanzania

In what rights groups call a blow to Indigenous rights, court dismisses Maasai case over eviction from ancestral lands.

The Independent UK

Court dismisses Maasai eviction case against Tanzania

The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case by Maasai herders who tried to stop Tanzania’s government from evicting them from land they have used for generations

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Regional court dismisses Maasai eviction case against Tanzania government

A regional court on Friday dismissed a case brought by a group of Maasai villagers claiming the Tanzanian government used violence to evict them from their ancestral lands in the north of the country.

The Independent UK

Scientists engineer mosquitoes that cannot spread malaria

Researchers will collect parasites from children in Tanzania to see whether discovery works in real world

Daily Mirror

World's strangest lakes - from bubblegum pink pools to 'mummifying' waters

Lake Hillier in Western Australia, Spotted Lake in Canada, Pamukkale in Turkey and Lake Natron in Tanzania are among the most striking and different lakes in the whole world

The Conversation

Tanzania and Zambia want to upgrade the 'Uhuru Railway' – but can they?

Half a century ago, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (Tazara) stood out as a crucial symbol of Africa’s struggle for independence. The 1,860km-long railway connects Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia with Dar es Salaam at the Indian Ocean.

Al Jazeera

Sadock John, from robbing houses to a football World Cup

From the streets of Tanzania to representing his country at a football World Cup.

The Conversation

How Shiite Islam reached Tanzania, and Ashoura processions became an annual tradition

Each year, the largest contemporary Muslim pilgrimage takes place in Iraq to remember Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. Before the pandemic, this event reportedly drew more than 30 million people, but in recent years participation declined to more than 14 million. This procession from Najaf to Karbala, where Hussein…

The Conversation

East African footballers are a rarity on the global stage: we analysed why

When Tanzania’s national football hero Mbwana Ally Samatta signed with Aston Villa in 2020 this was far more than just another move of an African player to the top of the global game. He was the first Tanzanian to feature in the English Premier League and his transfer sparked enthusiasm…

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