Tanzania

Aid is not helping development in Tanzania | Letter

Letter: The country is one of the largest recipients of western aid, and yet poverty and unemployment remain rife, write two healthcare professionals

Letters

22, Jul, 2021 @4:43 PM

Weatherwatch: Tanzania’s wide range of climatic zones

From a hot and humid coast to dry weather in the plains, the country also features ‘Africa’s Galápagos’

Stephen Moss

06, Jul, 2021 @5:00 AM

Clare Peploe obituary

Screenwriter and film-maker best known for Couples and Robbers, Besieged and La Luna

Ryan Gilbey

04, Jul, 2021 @3:50 PM

Major aid donors found to have funded ‘conversion therapy’ clinics in Africa

Investigation finds UK Aid and USAid money linked to centres where ‘condemned’ practice is routinely offered to LGBTQ+ people

Alice McCool

02, Jul, 2021 @9:44 AM

‘Gamechanging’ £10m environmental DNA project to map life in world’s rivers

eBioAtlas programme aims to identify fish, birds, amphibians and land animals in freshwater systems from the Ganges to the Mekong

Patrick Greenfield

16, Jun, 2021 @11:01 PM

Petra Diamonds pays £4.3m to Tanzanians ‘abused’ by its contractors

Firm settles over allegations claimants were shot, stabbed and beaten by guards at mine that produced one of Queen’s favourite gems

Kate Hodal

18, May, 2021 @5:30 AM

‘We cannot drink oil’: campaigners condemn east African pipeline

Activists say the ‘heart of Africa’ line shipping crude from Uganda to Tanzania is unnecessary and poses a huge environmental risk

Samuel Okiror in Kampala

14, Apr, 2021 @11:15 AM

Covid third wave may overrun Africa's healthcare, warns WHO

Leap of 50% in cases in three months and just 7m jabs across continent ‘infecting 11 health workers an hour’

Peter Muiruri in Nairobi

26, Mar, 2021 @1:22 PM

Tanzania's Covid-denying president, John Magufuli, dies aged 61

Leader’s death follows two-week absence from public life that prompted rumours he had virus

Jason Burke Africa correspondent

18, Mar, 2021 @7:48 AM

Tanzania’s missing president is in Kenya with Covid, says opposition leader

John Magufuli, who has repeatedly dismissed coronavirus threat, is critically ill in hospital, says Tundu Lissu

Emmanuel Akinwotu in Lagos

10, Mar, 2021 @7:46 PM

Mine that produced Queen's diamond investigates claims of abuses by guards

Petra Diamonds already faces court action on similar grounds, as its contractors are accused of continued assaults on illegal miners