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Meet Brit who visited Tanzania as a teen and never left

Claire Upshall lives in the East African country and says her family survive on sponsorship and help from friends

Wales Online

Tanzania has ditched school rankings. It should replace them with something more useful

While announcing the results of the 2022 Certificate of Secondary School Examination, Tanzania’s National Examination Council did not provide school rankings for the first time in decades.

The Conversation

Egypt Mobilizes Support of Nile Basin Countries to Defend its Water Security

The Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hany Swailem, began Tuesday a two-day visit to Burundi, the second leg of his foreign tour to the Nile Basin countries. Swailem will hold talks with the Minister of Environment, Agriculture, and Livestock in Burundi, Sanctus Niragira, to enhance cooperation in water…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Samia Suluhu Hassan is reforming Tanzania – it's winning her fans but boosting the opposition

A series of political manoeuvres by Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan have set the east African country on an unfamiliar, yet hopeful, political path. Since her elevation to the presidency two years ago following the death of John Pombe Magufuli, the new president has struck a reformist political tone and…

The Conversation

Total's contested oil projects in Africa: The case of Uganda and Tanzania

In the Lake Albert region, in northwestern Uganda, TotalEnergies plans to extract large quantities of oil buried deep in the ground. Work has already started. Backhoe loaders are digging the soil across the savannah. At the top of the embankments of red earth designed to diminish the noise of machines,…

Radio France Internationale

KLM ‘unrest’ travel warning for Kenya, Tanzania sparks anger

Kenyan and Tanzanian governments accuse the carrier of spreading ‘unfounded’ claims about purported ‘civil unrest’.

Al Jazeera

Tanzania squeezes Maasai by seizing livestock, report says

The Tanzanian government is ramping up its seizure of livestock from Indigenous Maasai herders in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to clear way for safari tourism and trophy hunting, a report released Thursday said

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Tanzania: opposition rallies are finally unbanned – but this doesn't mean democratic reform is coming

In Tanzania, the political rally is back. Chadema, Tanzania’s leading opposition party, held mass rallies outside the official election campaign for the first time in six and a half years on 21 January 2023.

The Conversation

Tanzania's opposition leader returns after 5 years in exile

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu has arrived home after five years in exile, three weeks after the country’s president lifted a ban on opposition rallies

The Independent UK

First opposition rally in six years excites Tanzanian politicians

President Hassan’s decision to end a six-year ban on political gatherings has been lauded by the opposition.

Al Jazeera

‘It’s becoming a war zone’: Tanzania’s Maasai speak out on ‘forced’ removals

Communities in Ngorongoro say government is shutting down vital services to remove them from ancestral lands to expand lucrative game reserves

The Guardian - UK

Tanzania’s tomato harvest goes to waste

Solar-powered cold storage technology is of prime significance in efforts to cut post-harvest losses

Salon

Tanzania opposition leader to end exile after rally ban lifted

Former presidential candidate Lissu says he will return home on January 25 and ‘get back to work’.

Al Jazeera

Tanzania opposition leader says he will end exile after rally ban lifted

Tanzanian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu said he will return home this month from exile in Europe, after the government lifted a ban on political rallies.

Reuters

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Tanzania's tomato harvest goes to waste: solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution

Feeding Africa’s growing population is a big development challenge for governments, policy makers and agriculture experts. Adding to the challenge is the high level of food loss and waste that most small-scale farmers experience.

The Guardian - UK

Hopes rise for press freedom in Tanzania as number of censured journalists falls

Media council reports progress under progressive stance of President Suluhu following years of repression by former regime

The Conversation

The pandemic has shown Southern Africa can do staycations: could this momentum hold in the long run?

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the tourism industry worldwide. International arrivals dropped by 74% globally in 2020 and tourist accommodations, businesses, borders and heritage sites had to close, resulting in a loss of income for those working in the tourism sectors. In Africa, the impact was…

Radio France Internationale

Tanzania government lifts six-year ban on opposition political rallies

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a ban on opposition rallies imposed in 2016 by her strongman predecessor, in an overture to political rivals seeking the restoration of democratic norms.

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Al Jazeera

Tanzania’s President Hassan ends 6-yr ban on opposition rallies

Her predecessor John Magafuli banned political rallies by opposition groups in the country in 2016.

Reuters

Tanzania president lifts six-year ban on political rallies

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted a ban on political rallies on Tuesday, six-and-a-half years after her predecessor John Magufuli imposed the measure which caused frequent run-ins between opposition leaders and police.

Manchester Evening News

Police search family of Tanzanian man who tragically died on Monday

Ndesanjo Massue was 65

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zanzibar’s Mwinyi: We Left Political Differences Behind, Are Heading to Economic Advancement

Eastern Africa’s Zanzibar is transforming from the largest slave trade center in the world into the largest African center for economic tourism with it accounting for about 30% of GDP. President Hussein Mwinyi confirmed that Zanzibar’s political parties have abandoned their differences to maximize economic and food security and accelerate…

Daily Mirror

6 amazing sustainable holidays for the bucket list - including penguins and giraffes

Strolling with giraffes in Tanzania, meeting penguins in the Antarctic, and walking across the majestic Patagonian wilderness are three bucket list trips you might be able to embark on in a more sustainable way

The Guardian - UK

‘He was brainwashed’: young men are disappearing from Zanzibar. Are extremists to blame?

At least 20 men have gone missing from the island since August. But a culture of concealment around terrorism means families have been left to guess at their fate

The Independent UK

Chimpanzees in Tanzania help British scientists solve mystery of why humans walk on two legs

Early humans probably first walked upright in the trees, study finds

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