Sources: News24
Tanzanian authorities charge hundreds of people with treason over protests linked to the disputed elections, including opposition officials such as Chadema secretary-general John Mnyika, while additional arrest warrants are issued for others, including Kawe MP Josephat Gwajima. 2025-11-8
The United Nations says ten deaths have occured due to protests in Tanzania following the general election. 2025-10-31
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
Five people are killed and nine others are injured after a building collapses in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. 2022-12-19
Twenty-two people are killed and 38 more injured during a bus–truck collision in Melela Kibaoni, Morogoro Region, Tanzania. 2022-03-19
Forty-five people are killed during a stampede at a stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where hundreds of people were paying their last respects to President John Magufuli, who died on 17 March. 2021-03-22
This week, the Gambia and Tanzania outlawed child marriages. Friday, the Tanzanian High Court — in a case filed by the "Msichana Initiative", a lobbying group that advocates for girls' right to education — ruled in favor of protecting girls from the harms of early marriage. And during a feast ending the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday, The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announced that child and forced marriages are banned. Jammeh called on the National Assembly to quickly take up the issue. 2016-07-9
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
Tanzanian authorities charge four people with negligence in relation to the Zanzibar ferry sinking that cost at least 240 lives on September 10. 2011-09-17
Police in Tanzania arrest a Kenyan national who was attempting to sell an albino man. 2010-08-17