Tanzanian police said Saturday that they had arrested two morgue employees in Dar es Salaam after they admitted to cutting open a dead man’s corpse and stealing the drugs hidden in his stomach. “The two morgue workers admitted to cutting open the body” a week ago to take the drugs, local police official Simon Sirro … Read more
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Friday ruled the Kenyan government had violated the rights and freedoms of the Ogiek hunter-gatherer people by driving them out of their ancestral lands. The court ordered the government “to take all appropriate measures within a reasonable time frame to remedy all the violations established and to … Read more
23 people including Arusha mayor and ten journalists have been arrested during a visit to the school of the victims of the May 6 Tanzania school bus crash that claimed the lives of 35 people. They were rounded up by the police on Thursday afternoon during a donation presentation ceremony at the premises of the … Read more
At least 29 final year primary school pupils were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school’s director said. “We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too,” said Innocent Mushi, director of the Lucky Vincent Primary School in … Read more
At least 29 schoolchildren have been killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania, along with two teachers and the vehicle’s driver, according to police and school officials. A minibus veered off a steep road in rainy conditions near the town of Karatu, in Arusha region, on Saturday morning and plunged into a river, said … Read more
A Tanzanian tourist guide has been charged in court with breaching cybercrime legislation after he wrongly translated a tourist’s comments in a video he put on Facebook. Saimon Sirikwa was not asked to plead and was remanded in police custody. A second video selfie of him and the tourist has emerged in which they say … Read more
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has killed at least 13 people and injured 203 in northern Tanzania, the authorities say. The quake struck close to the border with Uganda and Rwanda near Lake Victoria. Images posted on social media showed significant damage to buildings in Bukoba, a city of more than 70,000 people where most casualties … Read more
The earthquake struck in the north-west of the country A magnitude-5.7 earthquake has killed at least 11 people and injured 192 more in northern Tanzania, authorities say. The quake struck close to the border with Uganda and Rwanda near Lake Victoria. Images posted in social media showed significant damage to buildings in Bukoba, a city … Read more