Sources: Xinhua
Five people are killed when a rescue helicopter crashes on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. 2025-12-24
Tanzania's electoral commission disqualifies ACT-Wazalendo candidate Luhaga Mpina from the upcoming presidential election for a second time, reversing its earlier approval on September 13. 2025-09-15
Eight miners are killed in Geita Region, Tanzania, when their pit is flooded with rainwater. 2023-03-11
The world's oldest rhinoceros, Fausta, dies in Tanzania at the age of 57. 2019-12-29
A bus crash in Makomero, Tanzania, kills 12 people and injures 46. 2018-04-5
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
A quarry accident in Arusha, Tanzania, leaves at least 13 people dead. 2013-04-2
Salum Khalfani Bar'wani of the opposition Civic United Front party is elected as a Member of Parliament, the first albino to serve elective office in Tanzania. 2010-11-2
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