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Jan 15, 2025 | 
msn.com | Alfred Lasteck
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Alfred Lasteck
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in north-west Tanzania, saying that at least eight people have already been killed by the disease. On Tuesday, the WHO said that nine suspected cases of Marburg were reported in the region of Kagera over the last five days. "We would expect further cases in the coming days as disease surveillance improves," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Alfred Lasteck
Abdul Nondo has been campaigning in the west of the country before travelling to Dar es Salaam [ACT Wazalendo]Police in Tanzania are investigating the reported kidnapping of opposition youth leader Abdul Nondo. The ACT Wazalendo party said Nondo was abducted by unknown assailants from a bus station in the main city, Dar es Salaam. Police confirmed that a man was taken from the bus station in the early hours of Sunday by two individuals traveling in a white four-wheel-drive vehicle.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
msn.com | Alfred Lasteck
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Alfred Lasteck
A man in Tanzania's biggest city, Dar es Salaam, has told the BBC he is waiting to hear news of his mother, who remains trapped two days after a building collapsed. Rescuers have so far pulled 86 people from the rubble alive but 16 are known to have died, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said. Emmanuel told the BBC his mother was working in the building when it fell down on Saturday morning. "She called me and later told me that she was attending to customers.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Alfred Lasteck |Joseph Winter
Rescue teams in Tanzania say they have managed to establish contact with people who are still trapped a day after a four-storey building collapsed in the biggest city, Dar es Salaam. They are managing to send them supplies of water, glucose and oxygen through small gaps in the debris. Tapping sounds have been heard from inside the building in the city's busy Kariakoo market area. Five people are known to have died, while 77 have so far been brought out alive.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
msn.com | Basillioh Rukanga |Alfred Lasteck
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Basillioh Rukanga |Alfred Lasteck
Shaped and coloured like the country’s rare gemstone, tanzanite, the sparkling new railway terminal in Dar es Salaam is a symbol of Tanzania’s transport ambitions. The glass panels gleam in the sun, like an outsize version of the prismatic bluish-purple gem that glitters in the light. The trains – powered by electricity, a first for the region – carry passengers from the commercial hub to the capital, Dodoma, in less than four hours, half the time it takes by road.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aol.com | Alfred Lasteck |Wycliffe Muia
October 3, 2024 at 6:47 AMThere were hopes that President Samia would allow the media more freedom [AFP]Three of Tanzania's leading newspapers have been banned from publishing their online editions after they ran an animation deemed critical of President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The Citizen, Mwananchi and Mwanaspoti newspapers have had their online licenses suspended for 30 days over the viral animated clip, which has since been removed.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Alfred Lasteck |Wycliffe Muia
There were hopes that President Samia would allow the media more freedom [AFP]Three of Tanzania's leading newspapers have been banned from publishing their online editions after they ran an animation deemed critical of President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The Citizen, Mwananchi and Mwanaspoti newspapers have had their online licenses suspended for 30 days over the viral animated clip, which has since been removed.
