Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the north-west of the country. On Tuesday, the global health agency said a total of nine suspected cases were reported over the last five days in the Kagera region, including eight deaths. But in a … Read more
Tanzania’s main opposition Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe speaks during a press conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 18, 2022. Tanzania’s main opposition party demanded Monday the release of its top leaders detained in a mass roundup ahead of a planned youth rally, a move rights activists have condemned as “troubling”. | Photo … Read more
Pune: India’s decision to remove the 40% import duty on desi chana has led to a 7-10% jump in the international prices of the commodity within a day of the announcement on Friday. Made at a time when sowing is ongoing in Australia, this decision is expected to encourage farmers there to boost the acreage … Read more
New Delhi: India and Tanzania will sign 15 agreements covering different areas of cooperation, Tanzanian Foreign Minister January Yusuf Makamba said ahead of the bilateral talks between visiting President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. The presidential visit from Tanzania to India is taking place after a span of more than … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with Tanzania Foreign Minister Stergomena Lawrence Tax during the 10th India-Tanzania Joint Commission on Economic, Technical and Scientific Cooperation, in Dar es Salaam on July 8, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI India and Tanzania have agreed on a roadmap to further boost their time-tested ties by identifying new areas of … Read more
In a veiled attack on China, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said that, unlike some other countries, India is not “an extractive economy” and it was not pursuing “narrow economic activities” in the resource-rich African continent. Mr. Jaishankar, who arrived here on Thursday after visiting Zanzibar, made these remarks while addressing the Indian community … Read more
CNN — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending personnel to Africa to help stop outbreaks of Marburg virus disease and is urging travelers to certain countries to take precautions. The CDC is also taking steps to keep infections from spreading to the United States. Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania are facing their … Read more
CNN — A Tanzanian commercial flight operated by Precision Air crash-landed in bad weather in Lake Victoria on Sunday, killing 19 people. The country’s Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, said officials believe all bodies have been recovered from the airplane. “We’re starting to pull out the luggage and personal items from the aircraft. A team of … Read more