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By Kizito DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA): At least 19 people including a flight attendant died after a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday morning. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa confirmed the death toll shortly after arriving at the crash scene. Authorities said at least 26 people have been rescued. Albert […]

10th Feb 2022

African Union adopts Swahili as official working language

By Andrew Wasike NAIROBI, Kenya (AA): The Africa Union, which is made up of 55 member states, has officially adopted Swahili as an official working language. The approval comes following a request by Tanzanian Vice President Philip Mpango, who argued that over 100 million people in Africa speak Swahili, thus becoming one of the […]

18th Nov 2020

Tanzania’s blind tailor who makes clothes for politicians

By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA): When Abdallah Nyangalio, 61, lost eyesight, three decades ago, the world became dark and crushing. But instead despairing and losing his dreams, his zeal to overcome the visual disability has made him a master tailor. His shop at the sprawling Mbagala neighborhood, south of Tanzania’s largest city […]

23rd Oct 2020

Tanzania: 20 dead as terrorists storm border region

By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AA): Hundreds of terrorists infiltrating from northern Mozambique killed at least 20 civilians in Tanzania’s southern Mtwara region, police and local media said on Thursday. More than 300 Daesh/ISIS terrorists attacked civilians and damaged properties, forcing scores of people to abandon their homes. A gruesome video circulating […]

24th Sep 2018

Tanzania: Ferry capsizing death toll climbs to 224

By Tufan Aktas KAMPALA, Uganda (AA): The death toll from the capsizing of a passenger ferry in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria has risen to 224, local media reported on Sunday. The main suspect behind the disaster has been arrested. The minister for Transport Communication and Works, Isack Kamwele, said 126 of the dead were adult […]

9th Nov 2017

Tanzania: 5 pupils dead, 43 injured in grenade blast

By Peter Saramba Ongiri MWANZA, Tanzania (AA) – At least five pupils died and 42 others and one teacher were injured Wednesday following a hand grenade explosion at the Kihinga Primary School in Ngara, district of Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania. Police Commanding Officer Augustine Ollomi confirmed the incident to Anadolu Agency in […]

28th Sep 2017

Tanzanian gemstone finder living in poverty

By Kizito Makoye MAKANYA, Tanzania (AA) – A stunning pendant fitted with crystals that radiate rays of velvet blue from every facet, seen at the Tiffany & Co. store in New York, captures the enduring beauty of tanzanite — one of the world’s most sought-after minerals. As anyone who has ever caught a glimpse […]

7th May 2017

Tanzania: 30 students killed in school bus crash in Arusha region

By Peter Saramba Ongiri Mwanza, TANZANIA (AA): Tanzania on Sunday is mourning the deaths of 30 students who were killed in a bus accident in Karatu township in the Arusha region. Two teachers and the bus driver were also killed in the crash Saturday in the Rhotia area, about 150 kilometers (92 miles) northeast […]

5th Jul 2016

Tanzania: 30 killed as buses crash in Singida

By Peter Saramba Ongir MWANZA, (AA): At least 30 people died and 50 others were seriously injured when two buses collided in the Singida region of central Tanzania. Regional Police Commander Tobias Sedoyeka told Anadolu Agency that one bus was headed toward the capital of Dar es Salaam from the Kahama district of Shinyanga […]

28th Jun 2016

Tanzania police gun down mosque attack suspects

By Peter Saramba Ongiri MWANZA, (AA): Police in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s business capital, gunned down two people on Monday suspected of being ringleaders of a gang which murdered 11 people, including an imam, in May. Dar es Salaam Police Special Zone commander, Simon Siro, told Anadolu Agency that apart from the pair’s involvement […]

6th Jun 2016

Tanzanian police kill mosque attackers in 10-hour siege

By Peter Saramba Ongiri MWANZA, (AA): Police in northern Tanzania said late Sunday they had killed three men suspected of carrying out a deadly attack on a mosque last month. Regional Police Commander Ahmed Msangi said the three “gangsters” were at a cave near the Mkolani neighborhood of Mwanza city, where three people, including […]

21st May 2016

Tanzania: Mwanza city Muslims live in fear as 3 hacked to death in mosque

By Peter Saramba Ongiri MWANZA, (AA): Muslims in Tanzania’s northern Mwanza city fear for their lives following Wednesday deadly hacking of worshippers inside a mosque, head of a Muslim body said Friday. Imam Feruz Ismail, aged 27, and two other people were hacked to death Wednesday during the time of evening prayers at the […]

29th Oct 2015

Tanzania’s governing party to extend 54-year rule

By Peter Saramba Ongiri ARUSHA, (AA): While early results indicate that the party that has ruled Tanzania for 54 years will emerge as the official winner, several irregularities in Tanzanian archipelago Zanzibar have thrown a new twist to the weekend’s polls. Party of the Revolution (CCM) presidential candidate John Magufuli has so far secured […]

12th Sep 2015

Tanzania: Abubakar Zubeiry elected Mufti of the coutnry

Dar Es Salaam, (The Muslim News): The Muslim Council of Tanzania (Bakwata) Thursday elected Abubakari Zubeiry bin Ally as the country’s new Mufti [Chief Sheikh]. The Sheikh has been serving as the acting Mufti since June when his predecessor, Sheikh Simba Shaaban Simba’s death. “I have the greatest duty to ensure that we as […]

14th Jul 2015

Tanzania: Gunmen kill seven in police station raid

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 23 November 2007. Photographer: Ali Damji, Creative Commons] By Peter Saramba Ongiri ARUSHA, (AA): At least seven people, including four police officers were killed when gunmen raided a police station in Tanzania’s business capital of Dar es Salaam on Sunday night, a senior Tanzanian police official said Monday. A large quantity […]

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