Sources: AP
A Precision Air airliner with 43 persons aboard crashes into Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Nineteen occupants are killed; the others are rescued. 2022-11-6
A fire, spread by strong winds, occurs on the slopes of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. 2022-10-23
Twenty civilians are killed after Islamic State militants and the allied terror group Ansar al-Sunna attack a village in Mtwara, Tanzania. Properties are damaged, forcing scores of people to abandon their homes. 2020-10-14
The death toll of the MV "Nyerere" sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, rises to 224. Several are still missing. 2018-09-23
The death toll of the MV "Nyerere" sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, rises to 207. Several people are still missing. 2018-09-22
At least 136 people are dead and more than 100 others are missing after a ferry capsizes in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. 2018-09-20
University of Washington researchers report, in the peer-reviewed "Journal of the American Medical Association Oncology", the discovery of an odontoma β a "benign tumor" β in the fossil of a 255-million-year old Tanzanian mammal-like saber-toothed gorgonopsia. This is one of the oldest-known tumors ever found. 2016-12-9
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
Tanzania's opposition Chadema party presidential candidate Edward Lowassa calls for a recount of Sunday's election for the presidency before official results are announced tomorrow. Meanwhile, the election commission chief of semi-autonomous Zanzibar nullifies their results, which opposition presidential candidate Seif Sharif Hamad of the Civic United Front announced he won on Monday. The United States said it's "gravely alarmed" and called for reversal of the annulment. 2015-10-28
18 children die after their boat capsizes on the Tanzanian side of Lake Victoria. 2010-08-5