Sources: BBC
Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan creates an inquiry commission to investigate the killings that occurred during recent election-related protests and orders the release of some detained participants, while also announcing plans to begin constitutional reform within her administration's first 100 days. 2025-11-14
At least 13 people are killed and 80 rescued after a building collapses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2024-11-16
At least 21 miners are killed and several others are trapped following a collapse at a gold mine in Simiyu Region, Tanzania. 2024-01-13
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
The World Bank delays its decision on granting a US$500 million loan to Tanzania, in response to pressure from activist groups over the country’s policy of banning pregnant students from attending state schools. 2020-01-27
Voters in Tanzania, including Tanganyika and semi-autonomous Zanzibar, which also elects its own government, go to the polls for an election with the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Revolutionary Party) facing the greatest challenge to its dominance in over 50 years. 2015-10-25
India gives Tanzania US$180 million in aid to support its development. 2011-05-27
The gold mining company African Barrick Gold says seven "intruders" have been shot dead and several injured at one of its mines in northern Tanzania. 2011-05-17
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