The Latest Breaking News from Tanzania

Mobile sports betting in Tanzania continues to rapidly gain popularity. More and more bettors are switching from desktop versions of websites to smartphone apps.

As Europe fortifies its borders, growing numbers of North Africans are moving southwards into other African countries.

Protecting livestock in areas where large carnivores (like lions) live is increasingly important as human land use expands, wildlife habitat shrinks, and climatic changes reshape the ways in which humans and wildlife interact. Protecting the carnivores from livestock owners is important too. Intact carnivore populations support more resilient food webs…

Isaac, a 35-year-old from Tanzania, is preparing for a dangerous English Channel crossing on a small boat

Local guides in Tanzania have made an unexpected discovery on the icy heights of Kilimanjaro – a river frog spotted at over 4,000 metres altitude. While its spectacular leap to Africa's highest mountain reveals the potential of the continent's little-known alpine wildlife, it also raises concerns over climate change.

Baobab trees may be a proxy for measuring long-term use of land by humans. They live long, have economic benefits, and are used as shrines and markers on landscapes. Archaeologists have long suspected an association between baobabs and human settlements. Wolfgang Alders, who researches early urbanism and the first migrations…

Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire vow to hold authorities accountable as repression intensifies before October elections

Leighton Allen, who cannot bring his family to the UK, says it feels as if he is being punished for not earning enough

Miguel Masaisai, a 23-year-old athlete from Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, is cycling 6,000 kilometres from his hometown to Cape Town in South Africa, in a bid to promote peace and unity in his troubled country. He talks to RFI about his Pedals for Peace project and the message…

Foundation warns USAID’s withdrawal could have wider ecological consequences

US agency had pledged almost $30m over five years to Hope Through Action initiative, which was launched in 2023