Tanzania News

A DAREDEVIL woman, who has been inspired by a toddler's plight, is gearing up to scale Africa's highest mountain in a bid to raise A 5,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

The Government has announced funding of over 1.5m to help authorities in Tanzania reduce the number of babies and mothers who die during and immediately after childbirth.

Johannesburg - 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 spokesperson said on Friday.

French marines and divers found aircraft parts and five more decomposing bodies off Tanzania's coast on Thursday, hundreds of miles from where a Yemeni jet crashed into the Indian Ocean, officials said.

Hollywood actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover has visited Tanzania to support the Zanzibar International Film Festival and highlight the ...

Thirteen bodies, a plane seat and a piece of metal stamped "Airbus" washed ashore in Tanzania and French investigators were trying to determine Wednesday if they were linked to the Yemenia Airways plane crash hundreds of miles away.

The government of the Comoros islands, where 152 people perished last week in a Yemen Airways plane crash, said Wednesday that Tanzanian authorities had alerted it to the discovery of a number of bodies in Tanzanian waters.

TANZANIAN police said they were investigating reports that some bodies from a crashed Yemeni airliner had washed up on an island.

Tanzanian authorities have spotted some 13 bodies believed to be from a Yemeni airliner that crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros last week, an official said on Tuesday.

While most students are thinking of finishing for the summer break, International Baccalaureate students from Bexhill College have been to helping build a new school in Tanzania.

CHILDREN from Copplestone school may have helped save the lives of 27 orphans who were living on the streets in Tanzania.

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania: Mountain Kilimanjaro has finally entered into the top 10 list in the land features category as Africa's highest peak races to become one of the new "Seven Wonders" of the world, the local Sunday news reported on Sunday.

Several high-profile Australians are on their way to climb Africa's highest peak.

Male circumcision has become an important factor in the spread of HIV in Tanzania, health officials have said, naming regions where it is not practised as the worst affected by the pandemic.

The Government, faced with a growing budget deficit after it was arm-twisted to re-introduce some tax exemptions it had scrapped in the 2009/10 Budget, has outlined a preliminary plan to close the gap.

The Government plans to make amendments to both the Export Processing Zones and Special Economic Zones Acts, it was said in parliament.

THE Berega Orphanage, a cluster of neat stucco cottages in a village of red dirt roads and maize plots, is a far cry from what the name suggests.

A large-scale drive to improve knowledge of CD4 cell counts among people receiving HIV care in a Tanzanian district resulted in increased uptake of CD4 testing, an increase in treatment initiation and an improvement in patient retention, Tanzanian researchers reported at the HIV Implementers' meeting earlier this month in Namibia.

Imagine living in a city of 300,000 thousand people, but having only one fire truck in case of an emergency.

Some gifts given last year to then-President George W. Bush by foreign leaders, according to the State Department.