The Latest Breaking News from Zanzibar

Eastern Africa’s Zanzibar is transforming from the largest slave trade center in the world into the largest African center for economic tourism with it accounting for about 30% of GDP. President Hussein Mwinyi confirmed that Zanzibar’s political parties have abandoned their differences to maximize economic and food security and accelerate…

At least 20 men have gone missing from the island since August. But a culture of concealment around terrorism means families have been left to guess at their fate

Sunil Gavaskar is truly India's global cricket ambassador. The batting legend, who has stadiums named after him in Kentucky in the US and Tanzania's Zanzibar, has added yet another feather to his well-adorned cap as a cricket ground in England's Leicester will have his name on Saturday. It's a 5-acre…

Rob Jones' children received their passports more than a month apart ahead of jetting off from their Devon home to a big multi-destination holiday to Tanzania, Zanzibar and Greece

Alexandra Hallman purchased some henna paint while on holiday in Zanzibar to finish her new tattoo off herself, and says she'll always regret her decision after it left her in excruciating pain

A wealthy British hotelier and his wife are being held in a ‘hell hole’ prison after being charged with money laundering by cops on the paradise island of Zanzibar.

France has an increasing appetite for the work of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novels about the brutal impacts of colonialism in Africa, life in exile and endemic racism are a collision of old and new worlds. The Tanzanian-born writer and academic drew on his own experiences as a boy…

Simon Wood and his wife have been released after spending two week in a 'hell hole' prison

MUMBAI: In yet another feather in his highly decorated cap, Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has been named as the Goodwill Ambassador of Zanzibar, an autonomous region of Tanzania in East Africa.