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Rare Rough Ruby Goes on Show in Dubai Ahead of Auction

A rare rough ruby dubbed one of the world's biggest has gone on display for the first time ahead of an auction in the Gulf emirate of Dubai. The 8,400-carat stone - nicknamed Burj Alhamal and weighing 2.8 kilograms - was mined in Tanzania and made its debut at a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

East African oil pipeline hits the headwinds

Climate activists are urging more banks and insurers not to back the controversial $5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline that is primed to transport oil from the Hoima oilfields in Uganda to the Tanzanian coastal city of Tanga

The Independent UK

Tanzania's Hassan has put out positive signals: deeper change is yet to come

After the death of President John Magufuli on 17 March 2021, Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania’s sixth president, and the first woman in the office.

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Tanzania: Displaced petty traders struggle with new market rules

Tanzania’s latest’s sweeping directives to remove petty traders from the streets is throttling their livelihoods.

Al Jazeera

East African Community expands with the recent addition of DRC

The East African Community’s (EAC) membership has grown to seven with the official admission of the Democratic Republic of Congo as a new member. The other members are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.

Radio France Internationale

Tanzania - a Covid anti-vaxxer’s holiday paradise?

Anti-vax tourists are heading to Tanzania to avoid having to get jabbed, and some are even using their holiday to pick up fake vaccine certificates, says Joanna Bell

Evening Standard

DRC is set to become 7th member of the east Africa trading bloc: what's in it for everyone

Shortly after his controversial electoral victory in early 2019, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi sought to get his country admitted into the East African Community. Recently, the East African Community ministers recommended the DRC’s admission, a decision set to be formalised by the bloc’s…

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Tanzania's Hassan has made changes: but the ruling party retains a tight grip

She may have been Tanzania’s ‘accidental president’, but Samia Suluhu Hassan has used her first year in office to cement her power.

The Conversation

Osama Bin Laden's 'spokesman' back in Britain after police quiz lasting just ONE HOUR

Adel Abdel Bary was convicted after US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which left 224 dead in 1998. However, he has now returned to Britain after a one-hour long police quiz

Daily Mirror

Greenvale tragedy: Victim’s family raise funds to build classrooms in Tanzania on third anniversary

Lauren Bullock from Donaghmore tragically died aged just 17 in the crush at a St Patrick’s Day disco three years ago in Cookstown

Belfast Live

Early pregnancy can put young women's mental health at risk: a review of African evidence

The rates of adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan Africa are among the world’s highest. The adolescent birth rate is as high as 139 per 1,000 girls in Tanzania and 96 per 1,000 in Kenya. This is significantly higher than developed countries like Canada where the adolescent birth rate is 8 births…

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Tanzania is getting a political remake as President Hassan eyes the 2025 polls

The sudden death of Tanzania’s populist president John Pombe Magufuli on 17 March 2021 catapulted his then little-known vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, to the helm of political leadership. In one year, President Hassan has reversed her predecessor’s policies, from COVID control to media freedom and foreign relations. Nicodemus Minde has…

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Tanzania frees detained opposition leader Mbowe, drops charges -Citizen newspaper

Tanzania has freed detained opposition leader Freeman Mbowe after prosecutors dropped terrorism charges that he had faced since last year, the Citizen newspaper reported on Friday.

Reuters

Fourteen people missing after Tanzanian aircraft crashes in Comoros, owner says

Rescuers in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros are searching for 14 passengers and crew on a Tanzania-registered light aircraft which crashed over the weekend, the plane's owner said on Monday.

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At Unguja Ukuu, human activity transformed the coast of Zanzibar more than 1,000 years ago

The medieval settlement of Unguja Ukuu, on the Zanzibar Archipelago off the coast of Tanzania, was a key port in an extensive Indian Ocean trade network that linked eastern Africa, southern Arabia, India and Southeast Asia.

Radio France Internationale

Census reveals 65 percent increase in the number of 'endangered' African monkeys

The population of rare east African kipunji monkeys, recently thought to be on the brink of extinction, has increased by 65 percent in little over a decade thanks to efforts to protect the forests where these creatures live, in Tanzania’s southern highlands.

The Conversation

The story of how Swahili became Africa's most spoken language

Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over 200 million users.

Reuters

Tanzanian court rules opposition leader's terrorism trial can proceed

The leader of Tanzania's main opposition party, Freeman Mbowe, has a case to answer on charges of plotting acts of terrorism against government officials, a court said on Friday, prolonging a trial that some see as political.

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Radio France Internationale

EU will have to wait for East Africa regional bloc trade pact

African leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday with European leaders for a two-day summit that will inevitably discuss growth and trade. However, signing the long-awaited economic partnership agreement with the East African Community (EAC) regional bloc remains off the agenda, according to the Tanzanian Ministry of Investment, Industry and…

The Guardian - UK

Hiding from the cutters: the fight to save girls from mutilation in Kenya

As girls are paraded through Kuria’s streets in the school holiday cutting season, hundreds more are hidden by a network of neighbours working to change attitudes on FGM from the ground up

Daily Mirror

Mystery over whereabouts of White Widow terrorist 10 years after she disappeared

Security analysts have told The Mirror the widowed wife of London 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay is probably being sheltered at a remote location in Somalia or Tanzania

Radio France Internationale

France's Macron hosts Tanzanian counterpart in Paris ahead of EU-AU summit

President Emmanuel Macron met with his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday to discuss trade and business deals ahead of the European Union-African Union summit in Brussels at the end of the week.

Reuters

Tanzania lifts ban on four newspapers

Tanzania has lifted a ban on four newspapers, a senior government official said on Thursday, part of a fitful policy by President Samia Suluhu Hassan to relax media restrictions imposed during her predecessor's five years in office.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UAE Lifts Travel Ban to 12 African Countries for Vaccinated Citizens

The United Arab Emirates announced that it will lift a travel ban to 12 African countries for citizens who are fully vaccinated, state news agency WAM said on Friday. The countries include Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the Republic of Congo, South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. Fully…

Radio France Internationale

France's Total and China's CNOOC to extract Uganda's Lake Albert oil reserves

French and Chinese oil companies signed a ten-billion-dollar deal on Tuesday to develop oil resources under Lake Albert in Uganda and build a pipeline to bring the oil though Tanzania. The plan is being criticised by environmental groups, who warn the pipeline will be devastating for wildlife and people along…

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