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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

A fire, spread by strong winds, occurs on the slopes of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro.
2022-10-23

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

Benin, Liberia, Somalia and Tanzania report their first confirmed cases of COVID-19.
2020-03-16

A bus crash in Makomero, Tanzania, kills 12 people and injures 46.
2018-04-5

The Millennium Challenge Corporation, a United States foreign aid agency, pulls $472m of funding for a Tanzanian electricity project after concluding that the election held in Zanzibar "was neither inclusive nor representative". Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, held a rerun of its election that was boycotted by the opposition after it was previously annulled because of supposed fraud.
2016-03-29

78 people are killed and 66 are reported missing after the MV Skagit, a ferry carrying 280 people sinks off the coast of Zanzibar on its way from Tanzania.
2012-07-18

The first civilian trial of a person formerly imprisoned by the United States in Guantánamo Bay begins in New York. According to his lawyers Ahmed Ghailani of Tanzania was tortured.
2010-10-6

Police in Tanzania arrest a Kenyan national who was attempting to sell an albino man.
2010-08-17

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