Economy - Development | Environment - Nature
Tanzania, Zambia "too corrupt to trade ivory"
afrol News, 12 March - British and US environmentalists have angered Tanzanians and Zambians with a new report strongly advising against legalising the sale of local ivory stocks, saying "official corruption" would lead to further illegal ivory trade.
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Economy - Development | Politics
Tanzania signs loan agreement with Japan
afrol News, 17 February - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has recently signed an agreement with Tanzania to provide approximately US$ 22 million (2 billion yen) for the Seventh Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC7). Read more
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Society | Politics
Lawyers ask US to throw out bomber case
afrol News, 12 January - The Defence lawyers of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national charged over his alleged role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya has appealed for his case to be thrown out for being denied a right to speedy trial. Read more
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Economy - Development | Society | Environment - Nature
World celebrities climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds
afrol News, 8 January - Actors, rappers and environmentalists are scaling Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to spotlight the global clean water crisis, which affects more than 1 billion people worldwide, and to raise funds for the United Nations refugee agency and other humanitarian organisations. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Environment - Nature | Society
Kenya to counter Tanzania's Ivory sales proposal
afrol News, 22 December - Kenya is building a strong case against Tanzania following its request for an exemption to the 1989 ban on Ivory sales, saying it could lose more rhinos and elephants to poachers in the forests. Read more
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Politics | Human rights | Society
Tanzania investigates UN report allegations
afrol News, 27 November - Tanzanian authorities are investigating allegations carried in the UN report accusing the country of aiding Hutu rebels waging a bloody civil war in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Read more
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Politics | Society | Human rights
Former priest acquitted on genocide
afrol News, 18 November - The United Nations court has acquitted Former Catholic priest, Father Hormisdas Nsengimana, who was facing charges of the infamous Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Father Nsengimana, had been imprisoned for seven years since his 2002 arrest in Cameroon. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development | Human rights | Society
Last Burundian refugees repatriated
afrol News, 30 October - The last batch of some 400 Burundian refugees returned to their homeland after 37 years, ending one of the world’s longest-running refugee sagas, the United Nations has announced. Read more
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Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development | Politics | Society
Tanzanian farmers receive FAO's boost
afrol News, 28 October - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to provide Tanzania with advisory support for farmers that will help them better respond to market opportunities and thus heighten food security. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Environment - Nature | Travel - Leisure | Society
Natron community vows to protect the lake
afrol News, 26 October - Villagers around Tanzania’s Lake Natron have vowed to protect the lake and its treasure of Lesser Flamingos Phoeniconaias minor from industrial development, pointing out that their own future depends on the sustainable use of the lake. Read more
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Politics | Society | Human rights
Nizeyimana pleads not guilty before ICTR
afrol News, 15 October - The former second in command, in charge of intelligence and military operations in Rwanda, Idelphonse Nizeyimana, has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him, when he made his first appearance today before Judge Khalida Rachid Khan. Read more
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Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
S/Korea in farming deal with Tanzania
afrol News, 24 September - South Korea has found a new food production partnership with Tanzania in a deal that will allow the country farm about a thousand square kilomoters in the east African country. The deal is the second in Africa for South Korean following last years' similar signing with Madagascar. Read more
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Politics | Society | Human rights
ICTR's trial of Ngirabatware commences
afrol News, 24 September - The trial of the former Rwandan minister, Augustin Ngirabatware, began today in Tanzania before Trial Chamber II composed of Judges William Sekule, presiding, Solomy Balungi Bossa and Mparany Rajohnson. Read more
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» 23.09.2009 - USADF signs new grants in Cape Verde and Tanzania
» 18.09.2009 - Project focus to enhance child nutrition in rural Malawi and Tanzania
» 18.09.2009 - Tanzania’s president to participate in US-Africa Business Summit
» 26.08.2009 - Lake Natron faces renewed threat from soda-ash mining
» 05.08.2009 - Former border agent sentenced on Tanzanian Leopard Tortoises case
» 08.06.2009 - Local farmers sign US grant deals
» 05.06.2009 - Mahale Ecosystem research project launched
» 14.05.2009 - Tanzanian newspaper faces closure from harsh court decision
» 11.05.2009 - Tanzanian artists join in the theme art work for Europe week
» 27.04.2009 - Kenya's Ivory smugglers makes guilty plea
» 31.03.2009 - Operation to rescue mineworkers in Tanzania continues
» 20.03.2009 - Tanzania to introduce reforms in the mining sector
» 26.01.2009 - Healers ignore government order
» 21.01.2009 - Dar faces power outages due to fault at plant
» 20.01.2009 - Tanzania to send 918 troops to Sudan
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