20120722
AP
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania's government on Saturday halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people.

20120708
AFP
Three people have appeared in court in the northern Tanzanian town of Musoma, charged with murdering a Dutch tourist and a safari lodge manager in the famous Serengeti national park, police said Saturday.

20120701
AFP
Tanzanian police have arrested five people in connection with the killing of a Dutch tourist and the manager of a safari lodge in the famous Serengeti national park, officials said Saturday.

20111005
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's ruling party narrowly won a key parliamentary by-election after a tight race marked by low voter turn-out, pointing to a decline in popularity of the party even in regions where it enjoyed strong support.

20110917
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Four people have been charged with causing the deaths of more than 200 people when a crowded ferry sank last week in Zanzibar, local media reported on Saturday.

20110911
Reuters
STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) - - Nearly 200 people drowned when an overloaded ferry capsized off east Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island, police said on Saturday, Tanzania's worst maritime disaster in at least 15 years.

20110910
Reuters
ZANZIBAR (Reuters) - A ferry carrying more than 500 passengers from Zanzibar to Pemba island off the east African country of Tanzania has capsized and scores of people are missing, police said on Saturday.

20110906
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's presidency on Monday slammed allegations in a U.S. cable that President Jakaya Kikwete accepted gifts from an investor who also donated $1 million to the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party.

20110815
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania plans to spend 1.2 trillion Tanzanian shillings by the end of next year for emergency power projects aimed at ending chronic energy shortages in east Africa's second-largest economy.

20110813
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania BP, an oil trading joint venture owned by the government and a subsidiary of commodity trader Trafigura, has been suspended from selling fuel for three months after refusing to do so because of a fall in oil prices, the energy regulator said.

20110722
Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tanzania's competition regulator on Friday approved the sale by London-based BP of a 50 percent stake in a fuel marketing business in the east African country to Puma Energy, a subsidiary of Dutch commodity trader Trafigura.

20110714
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A senior lawmaker from Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Party of the Revolution, who was once in President Jakaya Kikwete's inner circle, has quit his seat amid accusations of graft.

20110626
Reuters
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania will present a new constitution in 2014, a year before its next parliamentary and presidential elections, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said on Saturday, amid opposition pressure for reform.

20110613
Xinhua
DAR ES SALAAM, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday pledged U. S. commitment to supporting Tanzania's national efforts to fight poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

20110612
xinhua
DAR ES SALAAM, June 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday arrived in Tanzania for a three-day official visit to enhance bilateral relations and partnership between the two countries.

20110513
Nation

Nairobi — President Jakaya Kikwete has ordered the immediate publication of a corruption report whose delayed release by the government has soured ties with donor countries, some of which have threatened to withhold aid.

20110502
Citizen

Dar es Salaam — The Tanzania police force said yesterday that the death of Osama Bin Laden did not mean the end of the war on terrorism.