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The hunt for albinos in Tanzania and Burundi by witchdoctors, who use their body parts for the manufacturing of traditional medicine, has claimed over 60 lives over the past recent months. Then they hacked off his limbs, gave...
Jack Leslie in Gulu, Uganda. He is chairman of Weber Shandwick and of the United States African Development Foundation. I’m chairman of the United States African Development Foundation now, but as head of the United States...
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - Switzerland It was the news all Tanzania had dreaded - especially the country's albinos and their families, supporters, neighbours and friends who live...
None of all villagers voluntarily tested for their HIV ad AIDS status at Rusaba village in Kasulu district, Kigoma region, has neither been found to be suffering from the dreaded disease nor to be infected by the deadly virus.
Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear could retard development in the region.
Male circumcision has become an important factor in the spread of HIV in Tanzania, health officials have said, naming regions where it is not practised as the worst affected by the pandemic. Dr Nay Bukuku, a senior official in...
Dodoma — More than one million hectares of land have been allocated to pastoralist communities in 240 villages countrywide. The deputy minister for Livestock Development and Fisheries, Dr James Wanyancha said the move was aimed...
The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed Tanzania's decision to allow more time for some 36,000 Burundian refugees who have been living in the country since the 1990s to make their way back to their homeland.
Farmers in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania have joined in the fight to protect their cassava crop from deadly cassava diseases. Armed with mobile phones, the farmers will send out monthly text messages to researchers on...
Dodoma — Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said yesterday the relentless vitriolic attacks on Government by Members of Parliament were motivated by "election fever". "You are charging like a bull, speaking emotionally about those...
