Ten rescued after Tanzanian vessel capsizes in Lake Victoria

Ten rescued after Tanzanian vessel capsizes in Lake Victoria
Coastweek
DAR ES SALAAM (Xinhua) -- Ten crew members were rescued on Thursday night after their ship carrying 280 tonnes of sugar capsized in Lake Victoria in Tanzania, police confirmed. Kagera regional police commander Valentino Mlowola said the ship ...
Ten cheat death as ship capsizes in Lake VictoriaIPPmedia

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Coastweek

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

BBC

Boat capsizes on Lake Victoria

A boat said to have been carrying more than 200 people capsizes on Lake Victoria, with reports saying lives have been lost.

 

10 years ago

GlobalPost

12 Oct

Five feared dead after boat capsizes in Tanzania lake

GlobalPost
Five feared dead after boat capsizes in Tanzania lake
GlobalPost
DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were feared drowned on Saturday after a boat carrying more than 70 passengers capsized in Lake Tanganyika, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, Tanzania police said on Sunday.
Tanzania: Three drown after two boats capsizeStarAfrica.com

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10 years ago

Coastweek

14 Oct

Five feared dead as boat carrying 70 capsizes in Lake Tanganyika

Five feared dead as boat carrying 70 capsizes in Lake Tanganyika
Coastweek
DAR ES SALAAM (Xinhua) -- At least five people are feared drowned after a boat carrying more than 70 passengers capsized in Lake Tanganyika, the second largest freshwater lake in the world, Tanzania police said on Sunday. "Among the rescued ...
Death toll in Kigoma boat tragedy rises to 10Daily News

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Feb

Madagascar seizes Tanzanian vessel with contraband logs

Madagascar authorities have seized a stricken Tanzanian vessel laden with thousands of logs of the rare and precious red ruby coloured rosewood, police said Wednesday.

 

10 years ago

Zambia Daily Mail

06 Nov

4 more girls rescued from Tanzanian businessmen

Zambia Daily Mail
4 more girls rescued from Tanzanian businessmen
Zambia Daily Mail
FOUR more girls out of the 11 who were allegedly sold to Tanzanian businessmen by their parents in the border town of Nakonde have been reunited with their families. This brings to nine the number of girls that have been rescued by Zambian security wings ...

 

9 years ago

BBC

23 Nov

Rescued Tanzanian gold miner dies

One of the five gold miners rescued in Tanzania after being trapped underground for 41 days has died, following his admission to hospital last week

 

9 years ago

Coastweek

17 Nov

Five Tanzanian miners rescued alive after 41 days underground

Five Tanzanian miners rescued alive after 41 days underground
Coastweek
ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Five miners have miraculously been found alive after being buried for over 40 days following a pit collapse at mine site in Tanzania's Lake zone region of Shinyanga, senior government official confirmed on Monday. Tanzania ...
Miraculous survival for five trapped small-scale minersDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)

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9 years ago

Vijimambo

Change the name ‘Lake Victoria’

By Mboneko MunyagaEast African News Agency
As East Africa inches towards integration, there is great need, as in the words of Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o, for the region to also ‘re-member’ its broken past. One of the tragedies of colonialism was to treat the people in colonized lands as if they had no past or meaningful pre-existence.
Thus in the name of religion, the people were given new names or local names were Anglicized in order for them to appear ‘civilized.’ It is not uncommon that...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Aug

KAYOKA: The endangered Lake Victoria

>It always astounds me when I hear politicians using the same worn-out tactics to address an almost perennial situation. I am talking of the problem of over-fishing, use of dynamites, poison and nets with very small ‘eyes’.

 

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