Ransom drive for S African hostage

Tanzanian Imams held hostage over $20000 ransom demand
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KINSHASA DRC (Xinhua) -- The kidnappers of six Tanzanian imams and their Congolese driver have asked for a ransom of 20,000 U.S. dollars, a source from the Congolese Islamic Community (COMICO) said Tuesday. The six Tanzanian imams and their ...

At least five people die in Somalia in clashes between pirates fighting over a ransom paid for a recently released hostage, sources tell the BBC.

Call it a number game or the tyranny of numbers, but Members of Constituent Assembly (MCAs) from Zanzibar are the ones who hold the key to the final Draft of the proposed Constitution, The Citizen can report today.

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Sad seeing rain hold whole city to ransom
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In November and December Tanzania normally experiences short rains, with the long and much heavier ones falling from around March. However, owing in part to climatic changes, there were little rains last month in some parts of the country. But from ...
Please take care; the skies have opened up again!Daily News
Tanzania's second largest city braces for Chinese investmentsCoastweek

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>So many were forced to walk to their workplaces while others turned to the  motorcycle and three-wheeled motorcycle taxis popularly known “bodaboda” and “bajaj” respectively in the wake of a countrywide drivers’ strike.

Rich Western nations are indirectly funding the activities of terror networks operating in East Africa and elsewhere, according to The New York Times.

US forces who tried to free hostage Luke Somers from al-Qaeda in Yemen did not know the identity of his fellow detainee, a US official says.

A German citizen is freed in Nigeria after being held for a week following his abduction in which a German colleague was killed.

An Algerian jihadist group linked to IS releases a video appearing to show the beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was seized on Sunday.