Zanzibar, Tanzania News

The Zanzibar Government has re-stated its position on oil and natural gas resources, saying they should be excluded from the Union list.

Fishermen have pulled 18 bodies from the Indian Ocean off Tanzania more than a week after 152 people died in a Yemen Airways plane crash, a police spokesman said on Friday.

During his visit to Tanzania, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover talks with a mother who has brought a child to a clinic and is waiting to be attended by a nurse.

Editor's note: This is a continuing series on Toledo International Youth Orchestra's planned trip to Tanga.

THE WORLD has known few figures as fascinating as Sir Richard Francis Burton . He was fluent in 29 languages.

When I lived in Zanzibar, I took to singing in the streets. Empty streets, crowded streets.

Sara and Said Hemed with daughter Malia in their Northside workshop. Photo by Greta Rybus.

On the dazzling white sands of a Zanzibar beach, a team of footballers is ecstatic, despite losing 5-3. The Muamko Recovery Team are all former heroin addicts and this was their first match in years.

Haroub Othman. He was the local representative of Pan-African militancy, a custodian of the records and sentiments of the days of the liberation struggle in southern Africa, and stalwart of the fierce loyalty that African militants had with global revolutionary leadership.

Leaving aside Nollywood films and their imitators, most African films actually have only a very small chance of being seen in the country where they were made.

Appointments for Faith Congregation and Zimbabwe VATICAN CITY, JUNE 23, 2009 .- The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has three new members, hailing from Tanzania, England and Indonesia.

Considering that Dubai is teeming with five-star hotels, it seems surprising that an unknown player would try to break into the market.

Vancouver: EPIC Global Media is pleased to announce that Tanzania- The Land of Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar & the Serengeti, a 60-second commercial produced for the Tanzania Tourism Board, has won a prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award.

The greatest news of this century from East Africa is that the Catholic Church has started the canonisation process which will culminate in the Pope declaring Julius Kambarage Nyerere , a Catholic Saint.

Microsoft has launched its software in Swahili targeting more than 110 million speakers of the language.

African countries have been urged to integrate public administration systems as one way of pooling resources and cushioning themselves against adverse effects of the global recession.

The United Nations has offered to assist next year's general elections in Tanzania, the local daily the African reported on Tuesday.

The first Guantanamo detainee to be brought to the US for trial has pleaded not guilty to involvement in two embassy blasts in East Africa in 1998.

The Obama administration on Tuesday transferred its first Guantnamo detainee to U.S. soil by having U.S. marshals move a Tanzanian man from Guantnamo to New York City for trial on capital terror charges.

The Portrait Restaurant, London Work up an appetite with a stroll around the National Portrait Gallery, taking in Lemuel Francis Abbott's portrait of Horatio Nelson or Sir George Hayter's depiction of MPs in the House of Commons in 1833.