Sources: BBC
Tanzanian members of parliament call on the government to tighten laws against homosexual sex with the death penalty. 2023-04-14
Lawyers for Maasai herders, who say that the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land in order to make way for a luxury game reserve, have filed an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case. 2022-10-5
ISIL-linked militants raid a village of Kagera, Tanzania, after crossing the border from Mozambique, killing four people. Three of the victims were beheaded. Between 18 and 33 people have been kidnapped. 2021-09-20
A forum for the promotion of LGBT rights is hosted in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to address minority rights. At the forum, a Rwandan man describes being assaulted by family members when he came out as gay. The forum also documented and urged the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya to decriminalize homosexuality and protect the minority. 2021-09-10
Forty-five people are killed during a stampede at a stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where hundreds of people were paying their last respects to President John Magufuli, who died on 17 March. 2021-03-22
A bus crash in Makomero, Tanzania, kills 12 people and injures 46. 2018-04-5
A bus and a lorry collide head-on near Kitonga, Tanzania, killing twenty six people and wounding nine others. 2018-03-25
Tanzanian authorities charge four people with negligence in relation to the Zanzibar ferry sinking that cost at least 240 lives on September 10. 2011-09-17
Salum Khalfani Bar'wani of the opposition Civic United Front party is elected as a Member of Parliament, the first albino to serve elective office in Tanzania. 2010-11-2
Somali pirates seize a Panamanian-flagged ship with 15 Indian crewmen on board, off the coast of Tanzania. 2010-09-30