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Rats trained to find earthquake survivors buried under rubble in bid to save lives

Research scientist Dr Donna Kean, 33, from Glasgow, has been training rats in Tanzania, East Africa. She said the animals can get into small spaces and are 'perfect for search and rescue-type work'

Daily Mirror

Four of eight missing miners found dead in Burkina Faso

Six of the missing men are Burkina Faso nationals, one is from Tanzania and another from Zambia.

Al Jazeera

A total of 108 capsules of heroin worth ₹11.53 crore seized from Tanzania national at Hyderabad Airport

These capsules were cut opened and the smuggled Heroin weighed 1389.100gm and valued at ₹11.53 crore

The Hindu

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‘Back online’: Tanzania’s president rights predecessor’s wrongs

President Samia Hassan is mending frayed relations with the West and getting neglected projects back on stream.

Al Jazeera

The tale of Lake Victoria's 'Saviour Fish'

On an island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, fishermen are barely eking out a living, where a crisis due to a combination of factors, including climate change and overfishing, has changed the fabric of the community. Journalist Mark Weston spent two years living on Ukerewe Island and wrote The Saviour Fish,…

Radio France Internationale

Evicting people from Tanzania's Ngorongoro conservation area is a bad idea, there are alternatives

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania is a spectacular area made up of expansive plains, forests and savanna. It’s also home to a huge caldera – a depression that forms when a volcano erupts and collapses – known as the Ngorongoro Crater.

The Conversation

Tanzanian who swallowed cocaine capsules to smuggle in India caught at Hyderabad airport

1,157 grams of cocaine worth ₹11.57 crore seized by DRI

The Hindu

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Changes in sub-Saharan maize trade spell potential trouble for Kenya

Maize production in some of the sub-Saharan African countries that dominated maize supplies during the 2021/22 marketing year is expected to be lower this coming season. This will bring about some changes in the sub continent’s maize trade in the 2022/23 marketing year, in particular creating complications for Kenya. In…

The Conversation

Tanzania’s Maasai appeal to west to stop eviction for conservation plans

Thousands of Indigenous people sign letter to UK, US and EU protesting at appropriation of land for tourist safaris and hunting

The Guardian - UK

Big development projects can have negative effects on nature and people

There are some major development projects in progress on the continent. They include the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya and irrigation and hydropower projects in Tanzania’s Rufiji Basin. Projects like these have potential to change people’s lives for good. But they also come with risks.

The Conversation

Man-eating crocodiles eat at least SIX people collecting water from river's edge

Villagers in Tanzania have been preyed upon as they collect water from a river swarming with man-eating crocodiles, with at least six falling prey since the start of the year

Daily Mirror

Digital banking is the in-thing -- but it excludes many users in Tanzania and Senegal

Across countries in Africa, only 33% of adults have an account at a bank or another financial institution. Among the women, this rate is only 27%.

The Conversation

Rare Rough Ruby Goes on Show in Dubai Ahead of Auction

A rare rough ruby dubbed one of the world's biggest has gone on display for the first time ahead of an auction in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. The 8,400-carat stone - nicknamed Burj Alhamal and weighing 2.8 kilograms - was mined in Tanzania and made its debut at a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

East African oil pipeline hits the headwinds

Climate activists are urging more banks and insurers not to back the controversial $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline that is primed to transport oil from the Hoima oilfields in Uganda to the Tanzanian coastal city of Tanga

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Tanzania's Hassan has put out positive signals: deeper change is yet to come

After the death of President John Magufuli on 17 March 2021, Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania’s sixth president, and the first woman in the office.

Al Jazeera

Tanzania: Displaced petty traders struggle with new market rules

Tanzania’s latest’s sweeping directives to remove petty traders from the streets is throttling their livelihoods.

Radio France Internationale

East African Community expands with the recent addition of DRC

The East African Community’s (EAC) membership has grown to seven with the official admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member. The other members are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.

Evening Standard

Tanzania - a Covid anti-vaxxer’s holiday paradise?

Anti-vax tourists are heading to Tanzania to avoid having to get jabbed, and some are even using their holiday to pick up fake vaccine certificates, says Joanna Bell

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DRC is set to become 7th member of the east Africa trading bloc: what's in it for everyone

Shortly after his controversial electoral victory in early 2019, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi sought to get his country admitted into the East African Community. Recently, the East African Community ministers recommended the DRC’s admission, a decision set to be formalised by the bloc’s…

The Conversation

Tanzania's Hassan has made changes: but the ruling party retains a tight grip

She may have been Tanzania’s ‘accidental president’, but Samia Suluhu Hassan has used her first year in office to cement her power.

Daily Mirror

Osama Bin Laden's 'spokesman' back in Britain after police quiz lasting just ONE HOUR

Adel Abdel Bary was convicted after US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which left 224 dead in 1998. However, he has now returned to Britain after a one-hour long police quiz

Belfast Live

Greenvale tragedy: Victim’s family raise funds to build classrooms in Tanzania on third anniversary

Lauren Bullock from Donaghmore tragically died aged just 17 in the crush at a St Patrick’s Day disco three years ago in Cookstown

The Conversation

Early pregnancy can put young women's mental health at risk: a review of African evidence

The rates of adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan Africa are among the world’s highest. The adolescent birth rate is as high as 139 per 1,000 girls in Tanzania and 96 per 1,000 in Kenya. This is significantly higher than developed countries like Canada where the adolescent birth rate is 8 births…

The Conversation

Tanzania is getting a political remake as President Hassan eyes the 2025 polls

The sudden death of Tanzania’s populist president John Pombe Magufuli on 17 March 2021 catapulted his then little-known vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, to the helm of political leadership. In one year, President Hassan has reversed her predecessor’s policies, from COVID control to media freedom and foreign relations. Nicodemus Minde has…

Reuters

Tanzania frees detained opposition leader Mbowe, drops charges -Citizen newspaper

Tanzania has freed detained opposition leader Freeman Mbowe after prosecutors dropped terrorism charges that he had faced since last year, the Citizen newspaper reported on Friday.

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