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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

At least 47 people are killed and 85 others are injured by landslides caused by flooding in Katesh, Manyara, Tanzania.
2023-12-3

Eight miners are killed in Geita Region, Tanzania, when their pit is flooded with rainwater.
2023-03-11

The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.
2022-03-24

A Tanzanian soldier is killed while two more Tanzanian and a Lesotho soldiers are wounded after storming an ISIL-linked groups hideout in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
2021-09-27

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

Voters in Tanzania, including Tanganyika and semi-autonomous Zanzibar, which also elects its own government, go to the polls for an election with the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (Revolutionary Party) facing the greatest challenge to its dominance in over 50 years.
2015-10-25

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete sacks six ministers amid allegations of government corruption.
2012-05-4

Floods hit the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing at least 13 people in the nation's worst floods since its independence in 1961.
2011-12-22

Somali pirates hijack a vessel under the flag of the Comoros Islands with 29 people on board off the coast of Tanzania.
2010-11-4