Worries grow on impact of ‘strongest El Nino’ ever

As the impacts of a powerful El Nino linger into 2016, there are concerns about increased food insecurity across Africa.

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>Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni would sweep to a landslide victory if elections were held on Wednesday, a new opinion poll reveals.

Earlier last month the National Electoral Commission (NEC) released a set of schedules for two major events regarding the October General Election.

The UN expresses concerns about 'wildcard' South Sudanese youths, loyal to the rebel leader Riek Machar, seemingly marching on a strategic town.

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Global worries about corruption are on the rise
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Recent news reports from Tanzania, Mexico and China have highlighted corruption as a major issue for people in emerging and developing countries. Our spring 2014 survey confirms that people in these countries think corrupt political leadership is a very ...
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>Opposition party Chadema yesterday accused one of its security officers of being used by CCM to spy on the party’s secretary general, Dr Willibrod Slaa.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Tanzania has stressed that its basic intervention in the oil and natural gas sector aims at ensuring that Tanzania avoids conflicts associated with oil and gas discoveries as it has been the case in other parts of Africa and the globe in general.

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Worries over new roads in Tanzania's Serengeti
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For many, Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is the essence of Africa, a wide, sweeping savannah ruled by lions, buffalo and zebra, barely interrupted by human presence. Except of course for the herds of camera-toting tourists in jeeps, huddled around ...