Freeman Mbowe waves at supporters outside a court in Tanzania during a past hearing.
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Chadema has grown into a dominant opposition party with formidable strength, making it a target of the government.
Topis are under threat in eastern Africa.
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New model can show what’s driving the decline in populations of large mammals.
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Youth citizenship is a fluid identity that stretches beyond disappointment, protest or voting.
People displaced by war seek refuge at a school in Minova, South Kivu, eastern DRC.
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The lead protagonists, Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, seem unwilling to reconcile. Personal mediation is required.
Supporters of the Tanzanian opposition party ACT-Wazalendo during a rally in 2020.
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While the space for opposition campaigns in Tanzania has widened, it still isn’t enough to facilitate free and fair elections.
Girls may encounter obstacles that hinder their educational participation and reading development.
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Improving school sanitation, reducing household chores, and addressing harassment and bullying could enhance girls’ reading performance relative to boys’.
Zanzibar island has been a Tanzanian territory since 26 April 1964.
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Many Tanzanians agree that the union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar should be reformed to reflect contemporary realities.
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The COVID-19 pandemic did not deter wildlife traffickers from going about their illegal business. Their methods may offer lessons about resilience in crisis scenarios such as climate emergencies.
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African countries are being driven into a debt dependency cycle. Three major factors are at play.
Flamingos in Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
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New research shows increased rainfall due to climate change is threatening the birds’ food supply.
John Magufuli and Samia Suluhu Hassan after winning the 2015 elections.
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Political reforms and Magufuli loyalists within Tanzania’s ruling party could shape Samia Suluhu Hassan’s candidature for the 2025 elections.
A street vendor sells bananas in a town near Kilimanjaro.
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Rural Tanzanians and those living in the city eat unhealthy diets, but their circumstances are very different.
A herd of the duckbill Minqaria bata wander along the shore of what is now Morocco.
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Oceanic dispersal of dinosaurs between Europe and Africa shows how low-probability, high-impact events drive evolution.
Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi died on 29 February aged 98.
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Ali Hassan Mwinyi successfully drove economic and political reforms in Tanzania, all in the shadow of his predecessor, Julius Nyerere.
Zebra and wildebeest taking part in the Serengeti migration.
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Lessons from the Serengeti herds may help conservationists manage migratory herbivore populations.
A worker sorting plastic bottles at a recycling plant in Lagos.
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Recycled plastics are not safe if the chemicals used in creating them in the first place are harmful.
Detail from the cover of Peponi, the Kiswahili translation of Tanzanian Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel Paradise.
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Swahili readers who have not encountered Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work in other languages are in for a great treat.
A comparison of dreams shows they play out much differently across various socio-cultural environments.
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Dreaming differs across cultures, and these differences may hold the clue to how and why dreaming evolved for humans and other species.
Kenyan anchovy products are tested in Hunan, China.
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Several key events highlighted the growing ties between China and Africa.
Kenya’s former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing agreements in Jerusalem in 2016.
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East Africa’s reaction to the war in Gaza appears shaped by history, affinity to the policies of the west and the threat of terrorism.