Tanzania, Malawi Travel News

AN online crowd-sourced safari guide that launched this week is being billed as one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world, allowing users to compare the major safari countries and tour operators against the advice of 2,200 user-generated reviews.

When Mao Doudou and Her Sweet Days, a 36-episode light comedy about a modern Chinese couple and their relationship with each other's families, was dubbed in Swahili and broadcast in East African countries in 2011, Omar Ahmed, like many, became a big fan.

Here, lions, leopards, elephants, hippos and giraffes wander free. Rivers of wildebeests, zebra and Thompson's gazelles -- more than 2 million all told -- cross the landscape in one of the largest animal migrations on the planet.

A MOTORBIKE enthusiast is planning to help wounded servicemen by travelling with one of them on the famous Route 66 in the US.

Subhead: Few female immigrants have enjoyed the benefit of the travel ban on people with HIV lifted three years ago Financial hardships, fear of stigma in their homelands and uncertainties about their U.S. legal status all block the way.

NAIROBI: Kenya said yesterday it was "fine" with US President Barack Obama avoiding the country on an Africa tour next month, rejecting reports it was due to upcoming crimes against humanity trials of its leaders.

President Obama is planning major diplomatic initiatives with China and Africa in the coming weeks, the White House announced Monday.

President Obama will travel to Africa this summer. The president will take his family to U.S. allies Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa, where Nelson Mandela lives in retirement.

President Obama is planning major diplomatic initiatives with China and Africa in the coming weeks, the White House announced Monday.

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania comprising an archipelago off the mainland.

QUALITY and quantity of coffee produced in Kilimanjaro is deteriorating while water supply is becoming scarce prompting Moshi Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority to seek tariff adjustment at Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority .

Burundi may not be the go-to capital of East Africa, but it is cheap and cheerful, and tourists are starting to cotton on.

Day three of a week-long hike up to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak.

When Barbara Grover and her husband received an inheritance they were not expecting five years ago, they planned a luxurious family trip.

The proposal to introduce the single tourist visa in the partner states of the East African Community has been held back by poor Information Communication Technology infrastructure.

GOVERNMENT has no plans of allowing the Tanzania People's Defence Forces to use of National Reserve Areas for military exercises.

Who: Barbara Ossias of Urbana, Md., and Quebec; her two travel buddies, Louise Brenner and Marsha Reckley, both of Maryland; and her oldest daughter, Adar Roberts-Owen, who lives in London.

The number of tourists visiting Tanzania went up by 24 percent from 867,994 in 2011 to 1, 077,058 in 2012, according to Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Khamis Kagasheki.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai travelled to Tanzania on Monday as part of a regional diplomatic offensive, with the MDC leader urging SADC to put pressure on Robert Mugabe ahead of elections.

Sixteen contestants have been dropped from the Redds Miss Tabata beauty contest set for May 31 at the Da' West Park, Tabata.