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Boon or doom: Cap des Biches in Senegal is an 86 MW thermal generation facility developed and constructed by Contour Global in two phases.
Photo: Contour

IFC’s new gas projects will destroy Africa

This is a familiar pattern. International financial institutions socialise risk and privatise profit, while invoking development rhetoric to justify fossil fuel expansion in the…

Can of worms: KwaZulu-Natal Police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi laid the ground work for the commissions and probes currently sitting.

A glance beyond the 6 July presser

The public confrontation between senior officials, the establishment of inquiries and the intense public debate surrounding the allegations all indicate that accountability…

Tanzania’s President Samia Hassan

Tanzania’s media barred from covering post-election violence victims’ testimonies

The Presidential Commission conducting the inquiry said this was intended to protect the privacy of those giving testimony

Caption: Released Chadema leader, including vice chairman John Heche (centre). Photo credit: Suleiman Mpochi

Tanzanian police release Chadema opposition leaders

The opposition officials and hundreds of youths from across the country were arrested in the wake of last month’s general elections

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah at LiteretureXchange Festival (2025
Denmark) Photo: Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft: A story of servitude, survival and the search for home

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with Theft, a moving portrait of loss, longing, and the elusive idea of home.

Tundu Lissu, the presidential candidate of Tanzania’s main opposition Chadema party, shows a family picture as he speaks to  the media at his home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on September 9, 2020. – Tanzanians vote in general elections planned for October 28, 2020. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP)

Tanzania’s opposition leader on reggae, resistance and his own resurrection

Sixteen bullets and 27 operations later, Tanzania’s main opposition leader has recovered from a brutal assassination attempt – and is now in the middle of an even bigger fight

Braving it: Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s former MP with the Chadema opposition party who was shot in 2017,
returns from exile to challenge President John Magufuli in elections later this year. (STR/AFP)

Tanzania’s opposition finds that forming a united front is not so easy

Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step

Aerial view of a truck passing in the Konso hills and terraces, Omo Valley, Konso, Ethiopia on March 10, 2017 in Konso, Ethiopia. (Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

On the road with East African truck drivers

In East Africa, truck drivers are being attacked, robbed and used as diplomatic footballs

Art of liberation: Keorapetse Kgositsile in 2009. He was a pre-eminent cultural figure in the struggle, and was not afraid to critique the ANC’s ‘backwardness’ when it came to culture. His bridging of politics and art was one of his many talents. (Oupa Nkosi)

Festac, the ANC and the arts

Keorapetse Kgositsile played a vital part in elevating the position of the cultural worker

PresidentJohn Magufuli speaks during a ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) rally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on October 21, 2015. (Photo by Daniel Hayduk/AFP)

Bumbling, irrational, deadly: The Tanzanian president is getting the Covid-19 response all wrong

Discerning leadership is critical in the time of Covid-19 and John Magufuli’s decisions — or lack thereof — have put Tanzanians at greater risk

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Editorial: Journalism under attack in Africa

‘Journalists will not go down without a fight, even as it becomes ever more difficult to do so’

Dar es Salaam regional commissioner Paul Makonda has threatened to round up and arrest people in Tanzania suspected of being queer. (Khalfan Said Hassan/AFP)

Fear grips Tanzania’s queer people

A commissioner’s threat of a crackdown has resulted in them going into hiding or fleeing the country

Dewji was born in Tanzania and studied at Georgetown University in the United States. He also served as a member of parliament from 2005 to 2015. (CNN)

Africa’s youngest billionaire kidnapped in Tanzania — police

In 2013 Mohammed Dewji became the first Tanzanian to grace the cover of Forbes magazine, and was in 2015 named Forbes Africa Person of the Year

Simon Kingori, a survivor of the 1998 bomb blast at the US embassy in Nairobi prays at the memorial park in the city. (Jacob Wire/EPA)

How Kenya is managing security 20 years after the Nairobi blast

Two decades after terrorists bombed the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Kenya has implemented a slew of measures to counter terrorism

The Mother City’s most sought after prime residences are in the area near Table Mountain

Tanzania arrests a sign of ‘autocracy’

The 13 detained activists had been holding a meeting about health issues, not about homosexuality

The South African bond market was subdued on Monday morning

Dar es Salaam plans municipal bonds to deepen debt market

Local governments may begin financing capital expenditure through municipal bonds from next year, says the head of the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange

Rescuers search through the rubble after a building collapsed in Dar Es Salaam on March 29

More than 30 killed in Dar es Salaam building collapse

A Tanzania official says rescuers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Dar es Salaam, bringing the death toll to 34.

Rocking the Swahili coast

Rocking the Swahili coast

<b>Lloyd Gedye</b> takes a musical journey through the streets of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar’s Stone Town.

Tanzania arms depot blasts kill at least 17

A series of blasts levelled several arms depots at a Tanzanian army base and killed at least 17 people, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said on Thursday.

Tanzania charges ex-ministers over deal

Tanzania has charged two former ministers with impropriety over the award of a mineral audit tender in 2002, court documents showed.