News on Tanzania

Court upholds Rwanda singer's genocide sentence

2010-03-18T04:15:36Z

<div><p>The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday upheld the 15-year prison sentence handed down on the famous Rwandan singer Simon Bikindi.</p><p>On December 2, 2008 Bikindi was found guilty of direct public incitement to commit genocide for a speech he made from a vehicle equipped with lou...

Despite ban, African ivory flows to Asia

2010-03-16T04:16:20Z

<div><p>A booming black market in African ivory linked to Asian crime syndicates may scupper efforts by Zambia and Tanzania to hold a one-off sale of tusks, experts and delegates at a UN wildlife trade meeting say.</p><p>At its last gathering in 2007, the UN-backed Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (C...

Kenya elephant deaths soar as ivory sales debated

2010-03-12T04:45:08Z

<div id="subtitle">As elephant poaching deaths skyrocket, Kenya opposes proposal for one-time ivory sale</div><div><p>Tracking the wounded elephant to its death bed was easy for the ranger. Hit by a poison arrow, the huge mammal could only drag its hind leg, creating a wide gash across the bush.</p><p>Poachers' footprints were all around the kill, but the hunters did not have time to remove the valuable ivory tusks bef...

East Africa new frontier for oil exploration

2010-03-09T22:16:04Z

<div><p>East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black gold, industry experts said.</p><p>"There are still large areas which are essentially unexploited and major efforts are needed in East Africa," Tiziana Luzzi-Arbouille, an African specialist with IHS Global ...

Singapore operator says no contact with hijacked ship

2010-03-05T22:15:51Z

<div><p>The Singapore-based operator of a chemical tanker hijacked by pirates off the coast of Madagascar said Saturday it was trying to make contact with the vessel.</p><p>The UBT Ocean's Singaporean operator, Nautictank Pte Ltd, said it had received no word from the vessel since it was boarded late Fr...

Pirates hijack Norwegian tanker off Madagascar: owner

2010-03-05T13:16:56Z

<div><p>Pirates hijacked on Friday a chemical tanker that was travelling off the coast of Madagascar, the ship's Norwegian owner Broevigtank said.</p><p>"The captain of the ship called us early this morning and told us: we have pirates on board. Very quickly afterwards we lost all contact with the boat," company director Svenn Pedersen told AFP.</p><p&g...

Pirates hijack tanker, head to Somalia, owner says

2010-03-05T11:00:11Z

<div><p>OSLO (Reuters) - Pirates have hijacked a Marshall Islands-registered tanker off Madagascar and are heading toward Somali waters, the ship's Norwegian owners said Friday.</p><p>The UBT Ocean, with a cr...

Scientists find early dinosaur cousin

2010-03-04T07:17:06Z

<div><p>Scientists have uncovered the bones of a dinosaur-like creature that roamed Earth at least 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaur, according to a study published Thursday.</p><p>Discovered in Tanzania, Asilisaurus kongwe would have been waist-high to a human, ate plants, and lived some 240 million years ago, said the study, published in Nature.</p><p>The discovery means that dinosaurs pro...

Tanzania president vows clean elections

2010-02-28T23:15:23Z

<div><p>Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete vowed a new election law would impose tighter controls on campaign financing and improve the standards of this year's polls.</p><p>Kikwete, speaking late Sunday in his monthly televised address, said the new measures were crucial to ensuring the credibility of the legislative and presidential elections due in October.</p...

U.S. Navy rescues Tanzanian ship, nabs 8 pirates

2010-02-23T05:30:33Z

<div><p>NAIROBI (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy warship prevented an attack on a Tanzanian ship and apprehended eight suspected pirates in the process, the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania said on Tuesday.</p>...

Nine dead in Zambia landslide

2010-02-22T11:19:16Z

<div><p>Nine people died in northern Zambia after a cliff on the Lake Tanganyika coast collapsed and buried their fishing camps, the local member of parliament said Monday.</p><p>Lameck Chibombamilimo, who represents Mpulungu district near the Tanzanian border, said seven bodies have been retrieved but two were believed ...

US Navy: Tanzanian-flagged ship fights off pirates

2010-02-22T08:45:41Z

<div id="subtitle">Tanzanian-flagged ship fights off pirate attack in Gulf of Aden; US warship detains pirates</div><div><p>The U.S. Navy says the crew of a Tanzanian-flagged ship has successfully fought off a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden before a U.S. warshi...

Barrick Gold to spin off gold assets in Africa

2010-02-22T08:38:56Z

<div id="subtitle">Barrick Gold to spin gold mining assets in Africa into separate public company</div><div><p>Barrick Gold Corp. said Thursday it will spin off its gold mines in Africa into a separate, publicly traded company as part of its strategy to capitalize on higher gold prices.</p><p&g...

Arms maker BAE Systems dives into the red

2010-02-22T08:47:48Z

<div><p>British arms manufacturer BAE Systems on Thursday announced it had fallen into a loss last year after a major write-down linked to its purchase of US military group Armor Holdings.</p><p>BAE Systems said it suffered a net loss of 67 milli...

African coalition urges EU to block new ivory sales

2010-02-22T15:12:38Z

<div><p>African nations on Monday urged European governments to resist calls for a new round of legal ivory sales and protect the world's elephant population.</p><p>Representatives of the 17-country Coalition for the African Elephant came to Brussels seeking support after

Tanzania As a Tourist Destination

2010-02-22T15:34:11Z

Tanzania is a country with an impressive array of archeological and historical heritage sites. The Leakey family dedicated their lives to unearthing the mystery of evolution here, and confirmed the East African region as the cradle of mankind. This makes Tanzania the oldest continuously inhabited area on Earth with fossil remains of humans and pre-human hominids found dating back over two million years. More recently, the country is believed to ...

US court urged to dismiss Guantanamo case

2010-02-22T21:55:54Z

<div><p> Lawyers for the first detainee transferred from Guantanamo to civilian trial in the United States urged a court to drop charges because he was tortured and blocked from a speedy trial.</p><p>Prosecutors, however, argued that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a

US court to hear Guantanamo detainee's complaint

2010-02-22T22:08:16Z

<div><p>The first detainee to be transferred from Guantanamo to New York for trial was to argue Monday in New York that his rights have been violated during five years of detention.</p><p>Lawyers for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzan...

Tanzania Power Market Outlook to 2020----Aarkstore Enterprise Market Research Aggregation

2010-02-22T22:24:34Z

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Zanzibar blackout to last six more weeks: minister

2010-02-22T23:27:32Z

<div><p>Zanzibar's energy minister said Friday that a month-long power blackout would last six more weeks, amid mounting criticism of the government over a crippling electricity crisis.</p><p>"We expect that we shall have power on the island on February 20," Mansour Yussuf Himid said at a press conference in the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island's...