Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia account for about 40 percent of Africa’s population outside South Africa and almost one-half of its GDP. They all share a common economic trait: They are Africa’s emerging markets, according to an IMF report.
The same crucial developments that presaged the arrival of institutional financial investors [...]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of near-simultaneous bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks killed more than 200 people. Watch VOA news video footage of the memorial.

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As black people, we are quick to complain when other races discriminate against us, but one would think that experience would make us more conscious and less bias against others. This is not the case. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa many discriminate against persons with albinism.
Albinism - not albinos, because the word is [...]

Six Maasai warriors left their remote rural village in Tanzania for the UK to run the Flora London Marathon on April 13. Their aim is to raise enough money to provide the village with clean water. Image: TreeHugger

“Our seemingly voluntary decision to invite and to entertain a hated war criminal for four days in our beautiful land will probably go down in history as marking the darkest moment in our political history so far” writes Hamza Mustafa Njozi from Tanzania.
And now, Kwame Nkrumah’s worst fears have come to pass. Tanzania, a former [...]

By: Zachary Ochieng (Highway Africa News Agency Correspondent)
Tanzanian fishermen have benefited a great deal from the use of mobile phones in doing business with local communities.
A study conducted by two students from Upsalla University, Sweden, in collaboration with the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), has concluded that the use of mobile phones [...]