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Tanzania briefly arrests opposition leaders to stop protests

Nairobi, Kenya 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 plans to demonstrate […]

Conservationists ask Tanzania to ban sport hunting of elephants

Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Conservationists petitioned Tanzania on Monday to end elephant trophy hunting in a vast wildlife reserve area that spans its common border with Kenya. About 2,000 elephants, including the “super-tuskers”, so called because of their large tusks, roam the wildlife conservation range known as Amboseli National Park on the Kenyan side and Enduimet […]

Kenya flood toll rises to 181 as homes and roads are destroyed

Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as dozens more were killed in neighbouring Tanzania and Burundi. Torrential rain and floods have destroyed homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure across the […]

Kenyan military deployed as East Africa floods kill dozens

Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Kenya’s military was deployed on Thursday to rescue victims of heavy rains that have killed dozens of people across East Africa over the past month. At least 45 people have died in the floods in Kenya since March, including 10 since Monday, the Kenya Red Cross said. Large parts of the capital […]

WHO warns of falsified cough syrup ingredients seized in Pakistan

Reuters The World Health Organization issued an alert on Monday warning drugmakers of five contaminated batches of propylene glycol, an ingredient used in medicinal syrups, that appear to have been falsely labelled as manufactured by Dow Chemical units in Asia and Europe. The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) issued three alerts between January and […]

Elephant deaths trigger Kenyan call for Tanzania to curb hunts

Amboseli, Kenya Reuters In the rolling grasslands of the Amboseli wildlife park, conservationists fret about an emerging threat to Kenyan elephants that are crucial to its tourism business: licensed hunters across the border in Tanzania. The two East African neighbours manage elephant herds differently. Tanzania issues some trophy hunting licences to wealthy sport hunters every […]

Eleven YWAM members killed in Tanzania bus crash

Eleven members of the Christian organisation Youth With A Mission were killed in a bus crash in Tanzania last Saturday. Two buses from YWAM were returning from a course to their campus in Arusha when one of the buses was hit by a truck and sustained significant damage, along with two other vehicles. The other bus […]

South Africa to deploy 2,900 troops to fight armed groups in eastern Congo

Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters South Africa will send 2,900 troops as part of its contribution to the Southern African Development Community force deployed to tackle armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the President’s office said in a statement on Monday. Displaced Congolese people are reflected on a puddle, at the Muchacha primary school, […]

Tanzania flood deaths rise to 63, Prime Minister says

Members of the Tanzania Defense Forces and rescuers search for the bodies of people killed following flash floods and landslides near the slopes of Mount Hanang in the Manyara region, Tanzania, on 4th December, 2023

Updated: 7:15am, 5th December, 2023 (AEDT) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Reuters The death toll from floods in northern Tanzania following torrential rains this weekend has risen to 63, the Prime Minister said on Monday, adding to hundreds of other deaths caused by extreme weather in East Africa since seasonal rains began in October. Prime Minister […]