Sources: Xinhua
Tanzanian members of parliament call on the government to tighten laws against homosexual sex with the death penalty. 2023-04-14
Eight miners are killed in Geita Region, Tanzania, when their pit is flooded with rainwater. 2023-03-11
The World Bank delays its decision on granting a US$500 million loan to Tanzania, in response to pressure from activist groups over the country’s policy of banning pregnant students from attending state schools. 2020-01-27
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
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
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
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is convicted on one count of conspiracy in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for his role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 2010-11-17
Nathan Mutei, a Kenyan man, is jailed for 17 years in Tanzania after being convicted of attempting to sell an albino man; the prized albino is escorted back to Kenya under armed guard. 2010-08-18
Police in Tanzania arrest a Kenyan national who was attempting to sell an albino man. 2010-08-17
Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including the Serengeti National Park and Olduvai Gorge, are added. 2010-08-1