London, March 18, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Following the sudden death of Tanzanian President John Magufuli, vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan is expected to be named Tanzanian next president According to Tanzania’s Constitution, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, should assume the presidency for the remainder of the five-year term that Magufuli began serving last year after winning a ...

London, Feb. 2, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Tanzania Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima has said the East Africa nation has no plans to import Covid-19 vaccines at a time when the US Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised against all travel to Tanzania. Her comment comes a week after President John Magufuli warned health officials against acquiring ...

London, Dec. 6, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Ethiopia has the largest livestock than any other country in Africa, making the East African powerhouse the continent’s best destination for leather and meat factories. This was revealed in a new report on livestock census conducted on the African continent. The new livestock data published by Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics ...

London, Nov. 24, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Mozambique and Tanzania authorities have agreed to launch joint operations against the terrorists linked to the self-styled “Islamic State”, who have been destabilising parts of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. Already, the General Commander of the Mozambican police force, Bernadino Rafael, has met with his Tanzanian counterpart, Simon Sirro ...

London, Nov. 10, 2020 (AltAfrica)-At least 50 people in Tanzania are killed by wild animals annually, a senior official with the country’s wildlife authorities has revealed Mabula Nyanda, a conservation commissioner with the Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority (TAWA), said the wild animals that stray from their sanctuaries also destroy at least 5,000 hectares of farm ...

London, Oct. 28, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Police in Tanzania shot dead at least nine citizens amid unrest over alleged fraud ahead of the presidential election, a major opposition party asserted Tuesday, The other main opposition party accused ruling party officials of shooting another two people dead at a campaign rally elsewhere in the country once praised for ...

London, Sep. 14, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Ten pupils have died in a school fire in a dormitory in north-western Tanzania’s Kagera region. Seven other pupils who sustained serious injuries have been hospitalised. The dormitory was housing boys aged six to 10 years. READ ALSO: UK BEGINS TRIAL OF ARTIFICIAL ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL AS NEW TREATMENT FOR CORONAVIRUS Police ...

London, Sep 1, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Operators of unregistered drones in Tanzania faced the risk of a six-month jail term or a fine of one million Tanzanian shillings (about 431 U.S. dollars, the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) warned on Monday Hamza Johari, TCAA director general, told a news conference in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam ...

London, June 2, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Egypt has become the first African country to record over one thousand death from coronavirus. The latest figures is 1005 after the government reports new 46 fatalities on Monday. On Monday the ministry of health announced a further 1,399 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infections to 26,384 READ ...

London, May 21, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has announced that university students and final-year secondary students will return to class on 1 June. Sporting events, which have also been halted for at least two months to stop the spread of coronavirus, will also resume then. But other secondary school and primary school pupils will ...