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.
Ivory was trafficked using hearses during the pandemic. Jeff Hutchens/
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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.
Processing facilities in Tenke Fungurume Mine, one of the largest copper and cobalt mines in the world, in south-eastern DRC.
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Since the 1990s, transnational corporations have once again become the dominant force as owners and managers of major mining projects.
German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier with Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan in October 2023.
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The evidence suggests that atrocities committed against civilians and communities were indeed intended to destroy an identifiable group.
Bee eaters pictured at Samburu, Kenya.
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With about 1,500 species, the diversity of birds in east Africa is nearly overwhelming.
Giraffes face survival challenges in may parts of Africa.
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Giraffes are vulnerable to extinction, mainly due to habitat loss and killing for bushmeat markets. The good news is human actions can alleviate that danger.
Tanzania is not yet out of the woods despite reforms by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
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Current reforms in Tanzania lack popular participation and legal safeguards.