Tanzania, Malawi Travel News

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.

A recent contest to name Africa's Seven Natural Wonders chose three in Tanzania, as mentioned in my most recent Globetrotter column : Mount Kilimanjaro , Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti Migration - - all figurative and literal landmarks.

IT may be a well-travelled fundraising adventure these days, but that shouldn't diminish the challenge ahead of friends Hayley Phillips and Bernie Dempsey, the latest Manx contingent to tackle the imposing slopes of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro.

THE low cost airline, Fast- Jet, has suspended flights on two major routes in Tanzania signalling airline business tremors.

Its area was 994,996 km² , nearly three times the size of Germany today. The colony came into existence during the 1880s and ended with Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I , afterwards the territory was divided between Britain and Belgium until converted to a mandate of the League of Nations .