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Mount Kilimanjaro climbers can share slope selfies in real-time thanks to new Wi-Fi

Tanzanian authorities installed the high-speed broadband network on the slopes of Africa's tallest mountain last week and say it should reach the summit by the end of this year.

WEKU

F1 | Lewis Hamilton says he is 'fully transformed' by Africa trip

Lewis Hamilton documented across social media his Africa trip to Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania, noting that they were “some of the best days of my entire life”

The Hindu

Mount Kilimanjaro gets high-speed internet so climbers can share their ascents on social media

‘All visitors will get connected,’ Tanzania’s information minister says

The Independent UK

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Exclusive-Rotavirus childhood vaccine shortage hits four African countries

Supplies of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon or are close to doing so, officials close to the roll-out told Reuters, after disruptions at drugmaker GSK.

Reuters

Survivor of 'nasty doctor' Al-Qaeda chief killed by 'ninja' strike hails brutal death

Former US ambassador Prudence Bushnell said there is "one less mass murderer in the world" after the death of Ayman Al-Zawahiri. In 1998, she was injured US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were devastated by bombs

Daily Mirror

DR Congo to reassess withdrawal plan for UN peacekeeping mission

In tonight's edition: After dozens of deaths during last week's violent demonstrations against the United Nations, DR Congo's government reexamines the withdrawal plan for the UN's MONUSCO mission. Also, the head of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a US drone strike on Sunday. He helped mastermind terror attacks…

France 24

Myles Turner addresses trade rumors

Myles Turner: I didn't look up what Tanzania was like on Google. I didn't look up what Africa was like. I didn't really even ask for people's opinions. I just wanted to go into it super clear-headed. For me personally, with all this, the wildness ...

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Change of guard in Kenya: the 5 reasons neighbours watch every step

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta – whose final term in office ends after the 9 August polls – has been a key figure in east Africa. Over the last nine years, he has tried to create markets and address issues like peace, malaria and climate change. Within the East African Community,…

The Conversation

Phil Mickelson explains video with gorillas that took social media by storm ahead of LIV Golf Bedminster

Mickelson and wife, Amy, recently visited Rwanda before visiting Tanzania.

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How conflicts intertwined over time and destabilised the DRC – and the region

The conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the deadliest the world has ever witnessed. One report estimates the death toll at 5.4 million while a more conservative count puts it at one million dead. Much of the conflict is centred in North Kivu and…

The Conversation

Moving the Maasai: Tanzania is repeating Kenya's colonial past

Images of distressed members of the Maasai community being forcibly moved from their homes, beaten and harassed by police and the army in northern Tanzania in June set social media alight with concern. Activists have since voiced their anger over land and human rights, and they have good reason to…

The Conversation

Leicester cricket ground to be named after Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Gavaskar is truly India's global cricket ambassador. The batting legend, who has stadiums named after him in Kentucky in the US and Tanzania's Zanzibar, has added yet another feather to his well-adorned cap as a cricket ground in England's Leicester will have his name on Saturday. It's a 5-acre…

The Times of India

Comrie's 'birthday' tree action for climate sees link up between Scotland and Tanzania

When two climate warriors met at COP26 it led to a project to encourage trees in two countries putting down firm roots with Comrie Croft in Perthshire getting in on the idea.

Daily Record

Why sexual and reproductive law for east African countries is being resisted

Six of the countries of the East African Community – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania – recently concluded public hearings on a new sexual and reproductive health bill. Proponents of the bill argue that it will improve access to sexual and reproductive health which, in turn, will…

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Passport Office chaos left family members getting documents back months apart

Rob Jones' children received their passports more than a month apart ahead of jetting off from their Devon home to a big multi-destination holiday to Tanzania, Zanzibar and Greece

Al Jazeera

In Tanzania, karate classes imbues vigour in people with albinism

In Tanzania where myths and superstition endanger people with albinism, karate classes are boosting their confidence.

The Independent UK

Report: East Africa pipeline 'breaches banking principles'

Would-be financiers of a planned oil pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania will be in breach of benchmark guidelines on financing big infrastructure projects if they go ahead, according to a report shared with The Associated Press

Radio France Internationale

Interview: Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Nobel laureate

France has an increasing appetite for the work of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novels about the brutal impacts of colonialism in Africa, life in exile and endemic racism are a collision of old and new worlds. The Tanzanian-born writer and academic drew on his own experiences as a boy…

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The Hindu

External Affairs Minister Jaishankar meets his counterparts from Tanzania and Solomon Islands; discusses bilateral cooperation

Jaishankar also met Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on the sidelines of the summit.

The Independent UK

Tanzania's Masaai demand Indigenous rights in UN framework

Tanzania’s Maasai people, resisting government pressure to leave their ancestral homes in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, have presented their demands for Indigenous land rights to negotiators in Nairobi finalizing the proposed U.N. global biodiversity framework

The Guardian - UK

‘I stumbled across it’: the push to help Tanzania’s untapped football talent

Michael Noone went to Africa looking for a change and now has an academy for boys and girls in one of Tanzania’s poorest areas

The Guardian - UK

Tanzania charges 20 Maasai with murder after police officer dies during protests

Lawyers say government is attempting to intimidate pastoralists as thousands flee to Kenya amid escalating row over evictions

Reuters

Tanzania ruling party now says it 'insists' on constitutional reform

Tanzania’s ruling party said on Wednesday it "insists" on reforming the East African country's constitution after fending off years of sustained pressure by opposition parties and rights groups to do just that.

Bangkok Post

Act on neglected tropical diseases

Earlier this year, world leaders began the process of committing to and endorsing the Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. The declaration is a high-level statement meant to mobilise the necessary political will, community commitment, financial resources, and individual action to end NTDs. The Kigali Declaration will be launched at…

Glasgow Live

Paisley man rushed to hospital after Kilimanjaro charity trek leaves him with pneumonia

Stevie Kidd was rushed off the Tanzanian mountain range within hours of reaching the summit. He was diagnosed with pneumonia shortly after in a nearby hospital.

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