Sources: AP
Tanzania's electoral commission accepts the nomination of ACT-Wazalendo candidate Luhaga Mpina for the upcoming presidential election after the High Court overturned Mpina's earlier disqualification. 2025-09-13
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
A Precision Air airliner with 43 persons aboard crashes into Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Nineteen occupants are killed; the others are rescued. 2022-11-6
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
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
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
78 people are killed and 66 are reported missing after the MV Skagit, a ferry carrying 280 people sinks off the coast of Zanzibar on its way from Tanzania. 2012-07-18
18 children die after their boat capsizes on the Tanzanian side of Lake Victoria. 2010-08-5