News & Current Events

President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania (R) and Pierre Nkurunziza The President of Burundi (L) President Jakaya Kikwete will convene the second meeting of the East African Community...

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has released a new voter registration timetable that will be carried out by Biometric Voter Registration (BVR). According to the NEC head of voter...

A woman left unable to have children after a defective caesarian section operation in Tanzania has won a landmark case against a local hospital whose surgeon left a piece of cloth inside her...

President Jakaya Kikwete has sent a fact-finding mission to Burundi, which is caught up in a crisis over President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in office. The team is expected to...

Elephant population has fallen to 43,330, a drop of several thousand from the previous survey, figures released on Monday revealed. Announcing the results of a new aerial survey, the Minister for...

The government admitted yesterday that politicians could be behind increased attacks and killings of people with albinism in the country. The accusation came in the wake of reports that linked...

Tanzania Telecommunications Company Ltd (TTCL) on Monday signed a new contract with Avanti Communications Group PLC to expand high speed broadband. The contract will see TTCL expand high-speed...

Mkanyageni MP, Mohamed Habib Mnyaa (CUF) The Official Opposition Camp in the National Assembly has warned the government against paying Bharti Airtel 14bn/- to purchase the 35 per cent stake the...

Dar es Salaam: FORMER President Benjamin Mkapa has called the government to be creativity and put comprehensive measures that will ensure funds set aside for the fight against HIV/AIDS are used...

President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday insisted that he will give his assent to the two media highly contested bills before his term of office ends. He said the bills, Media Services and Access to...

A two-day Open Government Partnership (OGP) Africa Regional meeting reached its climax in Dar es Salaam yesterday with participants asking African governments to enhance transparency, citizen...

World| Mon May 11, 2015 3:36pm EDT KIGOMA, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When heavily pregnant Hadija Mchume saw everyone in her Burundian village packing up to flee political...

President Jakaya Kikwete has assented into law the contentious Cybercrime Bill which the National Assembly approved recently, Parliamentary Committee on Infrastructure was told yesterday. The...

It says organised crime, government corruption and militias are all linked to elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade. Poachers in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sudan and Kenya it found out move...

Tanzanian media companies compete fiercely for readers, listeners and viewers. Increasingly, they battle for followers and likes in the social media space as well. So who is winning? I looked...

The Prime Minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office (Investment and Empowerment).Mr Christopher Chiza ,speaks at a past event Dar es Salaam. Dodoma, Kigoma, Singida, Kagera, Tabora...

While the parliamentary Economic Affairs, Industries and Trade Committee has asked for a detailed report on the $350 million controversy involving Vodacom Tanzania and one of its super dealers...

Remembering and honouring all those who tragically lost their lives in the US Embassy attack in Nairobi in 1998. Chelsea is thanking the incredible doctors and staff who welcomed her at the...

Tanzanian GDP is 28 per cent larger- sources THE TANZANIAN economy is larger than previously estimated, we can authoritatively report. The rebasing exercise, whose results are yet to be released...

Burundian riot police walk past a street fire during a protest on the outskirts of Bujumbura yesterday. At least five people have died since clashes broke out on Sunday after the ruling CNDD-FDD...