News & Current Events

Despite having the biggest number of players in the banking industry, Tanzania has the lowest number of bank customers among the East African Community (EAC) member states. According to a 2012...

Offshore oil and gas exploration in the Indian Ocean. Top officials at Tanzania's state-owned oil agency were arrested on charges of failing to release to parliament oil and gas contracts the...

Tanzania will issue data on its rebased gross domestic product (GDP) in mid-November, with analysts estimating the size of the $33.26 billion economy could increase by about 20 percent. The...

SafariBookings.com conducted an in-depth analysis of 3,061 reviews of safari tourists and acclaimed experts and concluded that both have voted Tanzania as the best safari country of Africa. Over...

Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) Head of Marketing, Geofrey Meena A total of 42 Tanzanian firms engaged in tourism sector will take part in the November World Travel Market (WTM) in London slated...

Serengeti District vet Tito Kagize prepares to examine one of seven lions which were found dead in Ikona Wildlife Management Area last Thursday. PHOTO | ANTHONY MAYUNGA...

1400: Number of people killed by Ebola in West Africa since the disease broke out last December. While countries around the world have heightened checks at entry points as a precaution against...

Saturday 1 November Chap Chap Africa is Not a Country, with ongoing exhibition ‘Why Africans are Not United' The Saturday starts at 16.30 with a public art workshop with the theme...

Cloud Chatanda, 2014 8 years waiting takes inspiration from the story of Brian Chatanda, my son, who also happens to be physically challenged. Born in 31/7/2006, Brian (initially) never showed...

Man, 32, identified as Kelechi Emeri, who allegedly specialises in selling of pornographic and offensive materials in Lagos Motor Park, has been arrested at Obalende area of the state. Our...

Vietnam-based telecoms operator Viettel plans to invest $1 billion in a new third-generation (3G) mobile phone network in Tanzania, the office of the east African country's president said on...

President Truong Tan Sang (left) and his Tanzanian counterpart Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete review a guard of honour yesterday in Ha Noi. Sang also said that the Viet Nam visit by President Kikwete and...

BG Group Plc (BG/) and its partners discovered natural gas at a well off Tanzania, adding reserves for a planned export plant in the East African country. The Kamba-1 well in Tanzania's block 4...

Coalition of the Defenders of People's Constitution (Ukawa) committee chairman Benson Kigaila speaks in Dar es Salaam yesterday on the signing of a pre-election coalition pact for a public rally...

The minister of State in the Vice President's Office (Environment), Dr Binilith Mahenge, during an interview yesterday. The government is working on putting an end to noise pollution--which has...

The Citizen on Sunday sought to understand why an Ebola case has never been reported in Tanzania despite being close to countries like Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where hundreds...

Tanzania will hold a referendum in April 2015 on a new constitution, the government has announced, a move rejected by the opposition, who said on Thursday that the drafting process ignored it...

Abuja, Nigeria A bomb has exploded at a bus station in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least five people and wounding 12 others. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast...

There is outrage in South Africa over the late release of bodies of the over 84 nationals who died in the Synagogue Church building collapse in Ikotun, on the Lagos outskirts on September 12. In...

Vice President, Dr. Mohammed Gharib Bilal Vice President, Dr. Mohammed Gharib Bilal yesterday called on African nations to join hands in addressing trans-national organized crimes like extremism...