Dar es Salaam. Tanzania Mainland football heavyweights Young Africans (Yanga), Simba Azam FC and Singida Black Stars are set ...

ZANZIBAR: THE president of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi, has called on ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tanzania has been profoundly shaken by a brutal election crackdown in which hundreds of protesters were gunned ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania's Zanzibar recorded 86,740 tourist arrivals in October 2025, a 24.2 percent increase from 69,860 in the same month last year, according to official data ...

Rising ocean temperatures have killed seaweed, depleted fish stocks and affected livelihoods in Tanzania's picturesque Zanzibar. Now sponge farming is helping turn the tide in one village, where women ...

When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did not have a house connected to the electricity ...

It’s hard to imagine what the Africans of Zanzibar made of the Persians when they arrived in the 10th century, sailing in on dhow boats that looked like winged angels of the sea. They were merchants, ...

The world’s largest international airline has announced the resumption of flights to a major city in Africa. In a travel update on the Emirates website, issued on Wednesday November 5, the airline ...

Wearing her usual tinted sunglasses and with her nose buried in her notes, Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in as Tanzania’s president for the second time on Monday. Speaking before an audience of ...

Once hailed as an empowering figure, Tanzania's first female leader is now being labeled a dictator. Suluhu Hassan assumed the presidency after the death of John Magufuli in 2021. She had been serving ...

The European Union (EU) takes note of the proclamation by the Independent National Electoral Commission of Tanzania and the Zanzibar Electoral Commission of the results of the presidential elections ...

Tanzania's opposition party, Chadema, claims around 700 people have died in election protests, alleging widespread fraud. The government has imposed an internet blackout and curfew amid violent ...