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Inflation in mainland Tanzania is expected to remain within the 3% to 5% target range, supported by stable food supply and exchange rate stability

Tanzania projects 6.1% GDP growth as agriculture and mining support recovery

Inflation in mainland Tanzania is expected to remain within the 3% to 5% target range, supported by stable food supply and exchange rate stability

Criticism of Rand Water’s Zanzibar investment is misguided

AfriForum cannot, on one hand, criticise state-owned entities for their perpetual reliance on bailouts and on the other hand, also criticise them when they engage in secondary…

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.

In past elections results were tampered with and reversed, ballot boxes were seized and results cancelled in key constituencies

Zanzibar’s elections need robust regional and international observer missions

In past elections results were tampered with and reversed, ballot boxes were seized and results cancelled in key constituencies, and voters ID’s have been withheld, which means…

Taking picture with digital tablet of a beach in Zanzibar – stock photo. Photo: Getty Images.

Silicon Island? Zanzibar bets on e-commerce, tourism to make it the next tech ‘valley’

The venture by Wasoko, a B2B e-commerce platform, has the support of the island’s leaders

Yoruba Star: Gbemisola Isimi shamed Timbuktu Global into relinquishing their trademark (Photo: She Leads Africa)

The Yoruba trademark scandal… and other examples of cultural appropriation™

This is not the first time nor last time that intellectual property laws have allowed western individuals or companies to lay claim to Africa’s cultural, linguistic and even…

A respected and robust United States — with all of our flaws, mistakes and missteps — can be good for the defence of democracy, not least in Africa.

The Trump era is over. But the fight for democracy is just getting started

A respected and robust United States — with all of our flaws, mistakes and missteps — can be good for the defence of democracy, not least in Africa

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Editorial: Cyril must embrace his AU role

There are several African conflicts that require urgent attention

An experienced Kenya Wildlife Service ranger helps a non-swimmer experience coral reefs for the first time for the Strategic Adaptive Management (SAM) Project in Mombasa Marine Park.
(Photo: Jennifer O’lear)

Life below water from Zanzibar

Advancing science and conservation in the West Indian Ocean

(John McCann/M&G)

Inclusive education is the future

With a deeper understanding of the problems, excluding children with disabilities can cease

Mafia Island

Finding Rhapta, East Africa’s lost Roman-era city

Forgotten by history, the ancient city of Rhapta is among Africa’s most enduring archaeological mysteries

Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga. (Delwyn Versamy/M&G)

Tanzania’s flags of inconvenience

Foreign-owned ships registered in Tanzania have been caught smuggling drugs and arms. The country’s president has had enough

Scene from ‘Kalushi’

Zanzibar International Film Festival 2016 is all about ‘This Journey of Ours’

“In our diversity we find common destinies, shared histories; we celebrate what defines us as a group and as flowers of this rich garden of peoples."

Children celebrate the independence of Zanzibar from Britain in 1963. Soon afterwards

Zanzibar: Revolt spiced up island life

We can learn from the Zanzibar uprising, which liberated people and freed the land, writes Andile Mngxitama.

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Zanzibar music legend Bi Kidude dies

Zanzibar’s famed singer Bi Kidude, renowned for her haunting voice and energetic performances, has died.

David Kuria

‘Slaves in our own land’

Randu Nzai Ruwa is no stereotypical revolutionary. But the soft-spoken carpenter has a radical idea.

In past elections results were tampered with and reversed, ballot boxes were seized and results cancelled in key constituencies

Falling in love with the slow cycles of Zanzibar

You don’t have to go on a luxury package tour to enjoy what this tropical Tanzanian island has to offer

Four stand accused of Zanzibar capsize horror

Four stand accused of Zanzibar capsize horror

Four Tanzanians have been charged with negligence over last week’s boat accident off the country’s Zanzibar archipelago that killed 203 people.

SA divers to retrieve Zanzibar ferry bodies

SA divers to retrieve Zanzibar ferry bodies

A team of South African divers has arrived in Zanzibar to help find the bodies of around 200 people who drowned in a ferry accident early on Saturday.

At least 190 dead in Zanzibar ferry capsize

Ferry operators face harsh action over disaster

Zanzibar has vowed stern punishment for those responsible for overloading a ferry that capsized off the coast of east Africa.