Samantha StainburnMay 20, 2013 11:55

An Australian anthropologist plans to lead an expedition to the Wessel Islands off the coast of northern Australia in July to excavate a site where five ancient African coins were found.

Saudis arrested over Tanzania church attack

Jill LangloisMay 6, 2013 14:19

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete called the blast in the town of Arusha an "act of terrorism."

Tanzania to evict Maasai people in favor of fee-paying trophy hunters

Tristan McConnellApril 17, 2013 06:01

NAIROBI — “The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards,” the Maasai responded.

Tanzania building collapse kills 18, dozens trapped (UPDATES)

Jill LangloisMarch 29, 2013 08:31

The building, which was under construction, collapsed around 8:45 a.m. local time in Dar es Salaam's Kariakoo business district.

China to invest in African gold

Matthew Boesler, Business InsiderAugust 16, 2012 15:42

Barrick Gold, the world's biggest gold producer, announced today that they are in talks to sell the 74 percent stake in its African mining business to China National Gold Group Corporation, a state-owned enterprise in China, via a statement on its website.

Bodies of 42 African migrants found by roadside in Tanzania

Luke BrowneJune 27, 2012 09:34

Tanzania’s Deputy Interior Minister Pereira Silima said 127 migrants set off for Malawi from Ethiopia in two trucks, but after reaching the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha were packed into one container truck.

Zanzibar music festival rocks sleepy island

Jonathan KalanFebruary 23, 2012 07:00

STONE TOWN — Sauti Za Busara has succeeded in becoming a popular international festival of Swahili and African music, but its future in Zanzibar is in question.

Saving Tanzania's musical heritage

Jonathan KalanFebruary 16, 2012 07:18

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — The Tanzania Heritage Project is a crowd-funded effort to preserve historic music and speeches recorded by Radio Tanzania.

Erin Conway-SmithJanuary 11, 2012 15:40

New snake species, Matilda's Horned Viper, found in Tanzania (PHOTO)

Matilda's Horned Viper (Atheris matildae), named after a little girl, is a black-and-yellow snake with horns above its green eyes, but conservationists fear its exotic good looks could attract illegal pet traffickers.

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A new snake species was discovered in southwest Tanzania. The snake is called Matilda's Horned Viper (Atheris matildae) after the 7-year-old daughter of Tim Davenport, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania one of the three people who discovered the viper. (Tim Davenport/WCS/Courtesy)

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Meet the world's newest snake, a black-and-yellow viper with spiky horns above its green eyes.

Matilda's Horned Viper is the snake's name, in honor of the 7-year-old daughter of Tim Davenport, who was on the three-person team that discovered the snake in a remote forest in southwest Tanzania.

200 bodies recovered, many more missing in Zanzibar ferry disaster

News DeskSeptember 10, 2011 07:38

Zanzibar authorities are overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster and have asked for foreign help, including from South Africa and Kenya.