Africa Tanzania Researchers have identified living relatives in Tanzania of people whose skulls were looted and brought to Germany during the colonial era, a discovery hailed as a 'small miracle'
Africa Tanzania Amnesty International has called for an end to the repression of Maasai resisting forced evictions after 39 community members and a Member of Parliament were arrested in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Africa Tanzania The government is planning to evict more than 80.000 indigenous Maasai people from their ancestral lands, claiming the growing population is encroaching on wildlife habitats
Africa Tanzania IMF Deputy MD Bo Li concluded his visit to Tanzania with a firm commitment to support the country's efforts to unlock its development potential, applauding the Tanzanian authorities' efforts to implement the economic reform programme
Africa Tanzania The main threats to chimpanzees in Tanzania are habitat loss and fragmentation, resulting in isolated populations and low genetic diversity, according to JGI's ongoing research on animals
Africa Tanzania A $60 million loan has been granted by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries International Development Fund for the construction of a 166 km overhead power transmission line that will connect consumers in the Kagera region to the national grid
Africa Tanzania Zanzibar will host the first Indian Institute of Technology campus outside India, following a newly signed agreement
Africa Tanzania A $309 million power transmission line will be built by Tanzania and Kenya by the end of the year for import and export of electricity
Africa Tanzania Air Tanzania celebrated the delivery of Africa's first 767 Freighter, which arrived at the airline's hub in Dar es Salaam and will provide the operator with dedicated airlift capacity to serve the country's growing cargo market
Africa Tanzania WHO, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health are working to provide key community groups living in regions affected by the recent cholera epidemic with the hygiene and awareness-raising skills needed to prevent and respond to it
Africa Tanzania Artists from Tanzania, Ethiopia and Ghana have helped launch a five-year project to seek more funding for art and culture, with the aim of convincing African governments to allocate at least one per cent of their budgets
Africa Tanzania Shops at Kariakoo market, the country's largest, closed for the third day in protest over the new tax that the government will place under moratorium
Africa Tanzania The Julius Nyerere hydroelectric project is about to become a reality with the construction of the dam currently at 86% completion, placing the country among the power generation giants on the African continent