Sources: News24
Five people are killed when a rescue helicopter crashes on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. 2025-12-24
Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan creates an inquiry commission to investigate the killings that occurred during recent election-related protests and orders the release of some detained participants, while also announcing plans to begin constitutional reform within her administration's first 100 days. 2025-11-14
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
Tanzania reports that five people have died from an outbreak of Marburg virus. The Health Ministry added that three others are being treated and that 161 people are being tracked by authorities, although the ministry stated that this is not of serious concern for the country. 2023-03-21
Eight miners are killed in Geita Region, Tanzania, when their pit is flooded with rainwater. 2023-03-11
A forum for the promotion of LGBT rights is hosted in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to address minority rights. At the forum, a Rwandan man describes being assaulted by family members when he came out as gay. The forum also documented and urged the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya to decriminalize homosexuality and protect the minority. 2021-09-10
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
Abu Anas al-Libi, a one-time associate of Osama bin Laden, dies in New York, United States, while awaiting trial for allegedly plotting the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 2015-01-2
Jwani Mwaikusa, a senior Tanzanian defence lawyer at the United Nations-backed tribunal for Rwanda, is fatally shot outside his home in Dar es Salaam. His nephew and neighbour are also killed. 2010-07-15