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Tanzania offers two-month amnesty for illegal gun owners

Tanzania, Aug. 31 -- Dodoma. The Government has given people illegally possessing firearms two months to surrender them voluntarily without facing legal action, as part of a campaign to prevent gun-re... Read More


Tanzania Minerals Minister directs mining blocks reserved for youth, women

Tanzania, Aug. 31 -- Tarime. Minerals Minister Anthony Mavunde has urged Tanzanians to abandon superstitions surrounding the mining sector, attributing financial ruin among miners to speculative extra... Read More


Unscrupulous individuals steal coffin, abandon it in Hai

Tanzania, Aug. 31 -- Moshi. Residents of Masama Mbweera Village in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region, have been left puzzled after unknown people allegedly stole a coffin from a local shop and abandone... Read More


Former Venezuela President Maduro posts first photos from US detention

Tanzania, Aug. 31 -- New York. Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has posted two photographs that appear to show him in a United States detention centre, where he has been held since his Janua... Read More


Dar Night Run builds momentum as night exercise gains popularity

Tanzania, Aug. 30 -- Dar es Salaam. What started as a small experiment involving fewer than 100 runners in 2018 has grown into one of Dar es Salaam's increasingly popular mass-participation sporting e... Read More


Swimmer Borega makes history as Tanzania wins lone ANOCA Zone five Africa medal

Tanzania, Aug. 30 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's Lorita Lameck Borega has written her name into the country's swimming history after winning bronze at the just-concluded ANOCA Zone V Youth Games, delive... Read More


Mobetto appointed UNESCO Global Champion, opens up on online struggles

Tanzania, Aug. 30 -- Dar es Salaam. Famous Tanzanian entrepreneur, socialite, and artist Hamisa Mobetto has been appointed a UNESCO Global Champion, a role that will see her promote the safe use of te... Read More


Parliament repeals Pyrethrum Industry Act, transfers functions to COPRA

Tanzania, Aug. 30 -- Dodoma. Parliament has passed the Pyrethrum Industry Repeal Bill, 2026, dissolving the Tanzania Pyrethrum Board and transferring its regulatory and promotional functions to the Ce... Read More


Stepfather who raped his five-year-old daughter jailed for life in Tanzania

Tanzania, Aug. 30 -- Arusha. The Court of Appeal has sentenced Steven Lihanjala to life imprisonment after finding that lower courts erred by imposing and upholding a 30-year jail term for raping a fi... Read More


Communities demand greater voice, access to justice in extractive sector

Tanzania, Aug. 30 -- Dar es Salaam. Communities living in Tanzania's extractive areas have called for greater access to information, meaningful participation in decision-making and stronger mechanisms... Read More