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Fifty-eight people have been killed in Tanzania and 13 people have been killed in Kenya in the past two weeks by flooding caused by torrential rains, with more than 125,000 people in coastal areas of East Africa affected by the flooding. Tanzania announces plans to construct fourteen dams in an attempt to reduce the damage from future floods.
2024-04-15

ISIL-linked militants raid a village of Kagera, Tanzania, after crossing the border from Mozambique, killing four people. Three of the victims were beheaded. Between 18 and 33 people have been kidnapped.
2021-09-20

Authorities in Tanzania have confirmed that the gunman who killed three policemen and a security guard in Dar es Salaam on August 25, was motivated by Islamic extremism.
2021-09-2

Police in Tanzania arrest opposition leader Freeman Mbowe and dozens of other people within his party amid accusations of authoritarianism by the government of Samia Suluhu Hassan. Mbowe's Chadema party condemns his arrest and labels the government as a "dictatorship".
2021-07-21

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

Sri Lanka reports its first case of the 501.V2 variant, which originated in South Africa, in a person who travelled from Tanzania and is currently staying at a quarantine centre.
2021-03-12

The death toll of the MV "Nyerere" sinking in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, rises to 224. Several are still missing.
2018-09-23

At least 19 people are killed as a gold mine collapses in Tanzania's Msalala district.
2015-04-18

A British cruise ship avoids a possible Somali pirate attack 100 mi off the coast of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.
2011-01-13

The dismembered corpse of an abducted 9-year-old albino boy is found in a river on the Burundi-Tanzania border and buried.
2010-10-24