Tanzania

By The East African Tanzania’s ruling party CCM on Thursday named veteran Stephen Wassira as its new vice-chairperson for the Mainland. The 80-year-old former Cabinet minister will be President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s righthand man in planning for the general election due in October. Wassira, a longstanding CCM member, with over […]

BY REUTERS At least 13 people died when a building collapsed in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam and more than 80 people have been rescued, the country’s president said on Sunday. The four-storey building in eastern Dar es Salaam’s Kariakoo market came down on Saturday around 9 a.m. (0600 […]

By Reuters Tanzanian police arrested three opposition leaders again on Monday, their party and police said, to stop anti-government protests in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam. The main opposition party CHADEMA’s chairman Freeman Mbowe was detained on the street, while his deputy Tundu Lissu was taken from his home amid […]

BY REUTERS The body of a senior Tanzanian opposition official abducted from a bus by armed men was found on the outskirts of commercial capital Dar es Salaam with signs he had been beaten and acid had been poured on his face, his party said. The killing of Ally Kibao, […]