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Thanda Island, Tanzania review: the eco-friendly private island of your wildest dreams

A bucketlist spot to live out your Robinson Crusoe fantasies

Evening Standard

Huatulco’s imprint in the sand: Rescuers ignore the odds to save Oaxaca's turtles

Growing up as the daughter of missionaries, my childhood travels were usually centered on giving back. From South Africa and Hong Kong to Romania and Tanzania, each purposeful journey involved some level of digging ditches, feeding children, raising awareness and rescuing the lost.

Tribune News Service

Tanzania's 1st female president praises political tolerance

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan says that as the East African country’s first female leader, she has brought a new level of political tolerance to the nation

The Independent UK

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French court dismisses lawsuit against TotalEnergies pipeline in Africa

A French civil court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought by environmental campaigners against the French energy giant TotalEnergies over its oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania.

Radio France Internationale

French court dismisses case against TotalEnergies E. Africa oil project

PARIS - A French court on Tuesday dismissed a landmark case against TotalEnergies for a massive oil project in Uganda and Tanzania after several NGOs filed a suit to suspend the controversial project.

Bangkok Post

French court dismisses NGOs' case against controversial TotalEnergies projects in east Africa

A French court ruled on Tuesday rejected a landmark lawsuit against oil giant TotalEnergies that accused it of failing to protect people and the environment as it pursues oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania. The world’s longest heated oil pipeline will pass through forest reserves and game parks before running…

France 24

Tanzania approves controversial oil pipeline despite environmental concerns

Tanzania has approved the construction of a pipeline that would allow Ugandan oil to be delivered to international markets, dismissing environmental concerns about the project as “propaganda”.

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Tanzania is ruled with impunity – four key issues behind calls for constitutional reform

Tanzania’s president issued a statement in June 2016 announcing a ban on political rallies outside campaign periods. The ban was unconstitutional.

The Conversation

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

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’.

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The Independent UK

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

The Conversation

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 Independent UK

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

Al Jazeera

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.

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The Guardian - UK

‘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

Salon

Tanzania’s tomato harvest goes to waste

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

Al Jazeera

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’.

Reuters

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.

The Conversation

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…

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