Full Coverage: Tanzania

22.04.2008 After forming a solidarity group and taking out microcredit loans, Anna Leone Mushi was able to expand her small business in Mango, Tanzania and must no longer beg to support her family.

21.03.2008 Hospitals in rural Tanzania have designed ways to communicate with doctors in referral hospitals using the Internet. The Bugando Referral Hospital in Mwanza has a telemedicine unit that connects Rubya and Kibondo hospitals. The remote hospitals are supplied with a computer, a scanner and a digital camera

21.02.2008 Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda -- all highly dependent on Kenya for goods, transport links, and services -- are struggling to cope with the consequences of the east African nation's ongoing political crisis.

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22.01.2008 The lack of meat in refugee rations in East Africa is causing a flourishing illegal trade in wild meat, threatening wildlife populations and creating a food security issue for rural communities, according to a new report.
From TRAFFIC

09.01.2008 On January 5 2008, two editors of the weekly Kiswahili newspaper - Mwanahalisi - were attacked and beaten by three anonymous machete-wielding (double edged bush knives) attackers at their media house in Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam.

22.08.2007 Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.

20.08.2007 Arusha has just become the first non-capital urban center in East and Central Africa to have its own Internet Exchange Point, a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to connect to each other and exchange local traffic between their networks by means of mutual peering agreements.

08.08.2007 Tanzania has been braced with one of the world's fastest, cheapest and most reliable communication technologies.

19.07.2007 DAR ES SALAAM, Jul 19 (IPS) - "I began walking when I felt contractions. I delivered on the roadside five kilometres from the hospital," says the 22-year-old Veronica Joseph.

10.07.2007

05.07.2007 To feed their family a healthy diet the world's poorest people are facing food costs that are more than three times their income, according to a new report, Running on Empty.
From: Politics.Co.Uk

27.05.2007 The world's 30 million or so displaced people often have little choice but to cut and collect wood for shelters, lighting, cooking, and to make room for cultivating crops. In East Africa, refugees and their host communities will soon plant more than 2.6 million trees in and around their camps.

08.05.2007 A Tanzanian policy of "arbitrary expulsion based on national origin" is being criticized as a violation of international human rights law.
From: Human Rights Watch

23.04.2007 In Tanzania, both abstinence and condom use have figured prominently in the national conversation on HIV/AIDS. Faithfulness, however, has not -- until now.

20.04.2007 NEW YORK, Apr 20 (OneWorld) - Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall joined corporate executives this week to launch a new line of "chimp-friendly" coffee, designed to open consumers' eyes to environmental degradation in western Tanzania and the steep toll it's taking on chimpanzees and humans alike.

15.12.2006 Now that peace and stability have taken tentative root in much of Africa's Great Lakes region, several of the area's leaders signed a landmark deal Friday to help each other maintain peace and security and build stronger democratic institutions and economic prosperity.

14.07.2006 Have you known or heard of someone who has died before their fifth birthday? Do you feel child mortality is a great concern in your community? What could you do to help? Kids in Liberia, India, and elsewhere react to those questions and more.

06.07.2006 Customs officers in Taiwan have seized more than two metric tonnes of illegal elephant ivory on ships travelling from Tanzania to The Philippines.