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In Tanzania, 25 people are killed and 21 more injured on a road linking Arusha to Namanga, after a truck driver lost control of his vehicle causing a collision with three other vehicles.
2024-02-24

Tanzanian members of parliament call on the government to tighten laws against homosexual sex with the death penalty.
2023-04-14

Six Tanzanian children are killed for their eyes, ears and other body parts. A Njombe district official, who found many were taken when they were home alone whilst their parents were working, believes that superstitious beliefs and witchcraft are involved. Four other missing children have been found alive.
2019-01-28

A road accident in Tanzania leaves 20 dead and 45 others injured.
2018-07-1

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs in northern Tanzania, near Lake Victoria, killing at least 13 people and injuring 200 others. Tanzanian authorities report significant damage in the town of Bukoba. The governments of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda report tremors.
2016-09-10

A rerun of Zanzibar's presidential election takes place amid an opposition boycott. The election originally occurred at the same time as Tanzania's general election in 2015 but was annulled because of supposed fraud.
2016-03-20

One person is dead and another 57 are injured after a bomb detonates inside a Roman Catholic church in Arusha, Tanzania.
2013-05-5

The extinct reptile "Nyasasaurus" is described as the possible oldest known dinosaur from 243-million-year old fossils discovered in Tanzania.
2012-12-6

Voters in Tanzania go to the polls for the country's general election.
2010-10-31

The dismembered corpse of an abducted 9-year-old albino boy is found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border and buried.
2010-10-24