The Latest Breaking News from Tanzania

Tunisia and Senegal cruised past Uganda and Botswana while Nigeria teetered past Tanzania, whose birthday boy skipper says the 2027 Cup of Nations might be one too far.

Nigeria started their bid for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title on Tuesday night with a 2-1 victory over Tanzania at the Stade de Fez.

Evidence gathered by human rights NGO Amnesty International shows Tanzania’s post-election protests were met with overwhelming force, with the United Nations estimating at least 700 people were killed in the unrest – raising questions about the future of civic freedoms in the country.

Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it appears.

Hosts Morocco are favourites to dethrone Ivory Coast, with Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria and Algeria also in contention

Police officers have heavily patrolled mostly empty streets in major Tanzanian cities

A Tanzanian doctor has reported hundreds of corpses being taken from the hospital where he works, appearing to corroborate accusations from Western officials and the UN that the government removed the bodies of those killed during protests following the presidential election at the end of October.

To adventure lovers, there can be nothing better than the untamed, unrefined beauty of Tanzania.

When she became president, Samia Suluhu Hassan offered hope. But the country’s sudden democratic decay is more than just a national tragedy