Luggage destroyed in airport fire
A room containing passenger luggage hardest hit in the fire at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) on Thursday night. “All luggage in the room was gutted,” says Works, Transportation and…
A room containing passenger luggage hardest hit in the fire at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) on Thursday night. “All luggage in the room was gutted,” says Works, Transportation and…
Update – 12:15: Normal operations are now said to be resuming at terminal 2 at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA), Dar Post has learned. Departing passengers had been using the…
A ‘severe’ wind and ‘major’ wave warning has been issued for all coastal areas of Tanzania. “Wind speeds reaching 40 km/h and wave height exceeding 2 meters are expected,” says…
The Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania, Lu Youqing, and former President Benjamin Mkapa will lead a Walk for Elephants on Saturday. Other diplomats, senior politicians and activists in the fight against…
Passengers on a small plane which crashed and burst into flames ‘immediately after takeoff‘ at an airstrip near Serengeti National Park are being credited with saving the lives of the pilot…
New details have emerged regarding the crash of a small plane at the Sasakwa airstrip just outside Serengeti National Park on January 2. The Air Excel flight carrying five passengers and…
Update – 22:30: An unknown number of patients from the crash were transported to Nairobi in critical condition. AMREF Flying Doctors says they received multiple crash victims in ‘critical condition.’ A…
The head of utility provider TANESCO has been removed from his post by the president, after the company announced it would be raising power tariffs. “It’s unacceptable that while we…
Dar es Salaam ushered in the New Year with a bang as fireworks shows lit up the night sky on December 31. Happy New Year from everyone at Dar Post!…
The ongoing crisis in Burundi shows ‘no signs of improving’ over the next year as 140,000 more Burundian refugees are expected to flee to Tanzania in 2017, says the UN’s…