Full Coverage: Tanzania

16.05.2009 This would be a perfect article for April Fool's Day. But it's deadly serious and very original. Mara Gordon argues that Coca-Cola's distribution methods in Tanzania offer ideas for getting life-saving medicines to those who need them. Global Health

29.03.2009 A tough-talking but constructive assessment of the economic crisis facing Africa. Speech by the president of Tanzania at the IMF-Africa High Level meeting in Dar es Salaam. allAfrica.com

14.03.2009 Tanzania is often described as a development success story in Africa. It doesn't look that way if you study the facts of life for the poor.

14.03.2009 Although this paper addresses Tanzania, it doubles up as a really clear exposition of the complex issues that frame this important subject. (pdf file) USAID

14.03.2009 Tanzania's prime minister explains the difficult issues faced in a country which has hosted more than its fair share of refugees. UN Refugee Agency

04.03.2009 A film by five midwives and a doctor in Tanzania documenting the appalling conditions in which women have to give birth had remarkable effects: the government doubled the number of midwives trained each year and placed more midwives in rural areas. Brigid McConville tells the story.

13.01.2009 Key medicinal plants used for cancer, malaria and other remedies are being over-exploited — potentially putting the health of millions at risk, warns an international conservation group.

18.12.2008 Sixteen thousand children in seven African countries are due to undergo final-stage tests of a potential malaria vaccine early next year after research showed it halves the risk of malaria among infants and children in Kenya and Tanzania.

28.07.2008 The British water company Biwater has failed in its bid to claim up to $20 million in damages from the Tanzanian government following the collapse of a controversial water privatisation contract in 2005.

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.