Sources: BBC
Tanzania's electoral commission disqualifies ACT-Wazalendo candidate Luhaga Mpina from the upcoming presidential election for a second time, reversing its earlier approval on September 13. 2025-09-15
At least 47 people are killed and 85 others are injured by landslides caused by flooding in Katesh, Manyara, Tanzania. 2023-12-3
Tanzania receives its first shipment of 1 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine donated by the U.S. government. 2021-07-24
At least 75 people have been killed and 60 injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Morogoro, Tanzania. 2019-08-10
The death toll of the MV "Nyerere" sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, rises to 207. Several people are still missing. 2018-09-22
A bus crash in Makomero, Tanzania, kills 12 people and injures 46. 2018-04-5
Durham and Oxford universities' geologists, working with a helium exploration company, discover an at least 54 billion cubic foot field of helium in the Tanzanian East African Rift Valley. Previously, helium has only been found in small quantities. This field, found using a new exploration approach connected to volcanic activity, could potentially meet global demand for several years. 2016-06-28
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
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
18 children die after their boat capsizes on the Tanzanian side of Lake Victoria. 2010-08-5