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Approximately 800 girls were forced to undergo illegal Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) last month, and you can help make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else. “It’s not something to…

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…

Plastic bags were to be banned in mainland Tanzania effective January 1, with official notices widely published by the government in 2016. However Dar Post has learned that the bag ban…

Police say a Norwegian tourist has died climbing Mount Kilimanjaro on New Year’s Eve. The 54-year-old man died on Saturday, December 31, at Simba camp, says Kilimanjaro regional police commander…

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…

Tanzania has a ‘long way to go’ before it becomes investor friendly, says the chairman of the CEO Roundtable Ali Mufuruki. “Tanzania needs to compete for capital and investment in…

Update: Energy Minister Sospeter Muhongo has ordered the implementation of new energy tariffs be halted until the ‘government has thoroughly and carefully considered the formal report it will receive from…

Rising temperatures and unpredictable rains are crippling Tanzania’s coffee crops. “The areas that are suitable to produce coffee are going to shrink drastically,” says Peter Läderach, an expert on tropical…