A magistrate court in Tanzania has ordered that an opposition leader who was charged with treason last month be brought in court in person after he went on hunger strike to protest virtual hearings.

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in more than 88% of cases without treatment.

The global rivalry between the United States and China has been a recurring backdrop during Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Africa.

Vice President Kamala Harris is encouraging Tanzania’s fragile progress toward a more inclusive government as she continues her trip to Africa and the push to strengthen democracy.

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan, on a state visit to South Africa, has urged more security cooperation and trade between the two countries.

A Paris court is set to rule on a case pitting French and Ugandan environmentalist groups against oil giant TotalEnergies regarding a major oil field and pipeline projects in east Africa.

The Tanzanian government is ramping up its seizure of livestock from Indigenous Maasai herders in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to clear way for safari tourism and trophy hunting, a report released Thursday said.

A plane has crashed into Lake Victoria on approach to an airport in Tanzania.

Tanzania’s Maasai people, resisting government pressure to leave their ancestral homes in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, have presented their demands for Indigenous land rights to negotiators in Nairobi finalizing the proposed U.N. global biodiversity framework.

Tanzania’s government has been accused of using violence against Maasai herders protesting efforts to evict them from one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations.

Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative on Monday for COVID-19, six days after she tested positive for the virus.

Vice President Kamala Harris is naming Lorraine Voles as her new chief of staff, replacing Tina Flournoy who is leaving the administration, in the latest shakeup in her office, the White House said.

The U.S. Department of Education approved Georgia’s plans to use $1.4 billion in federal coronavirus relief money.

Tanzania's new president Samia Suluhu Hassan, center-right, inspects the guard of honor after being sworn in at a ceremony at State House in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Friday, March 19, 2021. Samia Suluhu Hassan made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania's first female president, following the death of her predecessor John Magufuli. (AP Photo)DAR ES SALAAM – Samia Suluhu Hassan made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president after the death of her controversial predecessor, John Magufuli, who denied that COVID-19 is a problem in the East African country. “President Magufuli defied the world, defied science, defied common sense in his approach to COVID-19 and it finally brought him down,” said Lissu. AdAfter Magufuli selected her as his running mate in 2015, Hassan became Tanzania's first female vice president.

President John Magufuli was last seen in public on Feb. 27 at the swearing-in ceremony of his chief secretary, effectively his chief of staff, following the death of his previous chief secretary. The populist leader announced in June last year that Tanzania had defeated COVID-19 through three days of prayer. Exiled opposition leader Lissu speculated on Twitter that Magufuli had COVID-19 and had been flown to Kenya for treatment. Days later the president's official office, State House, announced the death of John Kijazi, the president's chief secretary. ___This story was corrected to show that Magufuli was last seen at the swearing-in ceremony of his chief secretary, not the secretary of state.

Emmanuel Mvula, campaign manager with the ACT Wazalendo party, told The Associated Press there was "heavy deployment of security forces” in the commercial hub of Dar es Salaam, where the two main opposition parties planned to march to the national electoral commission. The chair of the CHADEMA opposition party, Freeman Mbowe, was among those arrested overnight, Mvula said. Allegations include the rejection of thousands of election observers, a massive slowdown in internet and text-messaging services and deadly violence. Magufuli also said this will be “my second and last term in office," notable because some ruling party officials have discussed changing the constitution of extending the presidency's term limits. The ACT Wazalendo party has told its members not to go to police even if they are summoned, Mvula said: “They have not dared to.”

Tanzanian army personal vote in Dodoma during Tanzania election Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. “I think it is going to be a very terrible situation,” Pavu Juma Abdalla, the opposition party’s deputy secretary for human rights, told the AP. He was then arrested Tuesday morning at a polling station as he went to vote, the party said. Tanzanian President John Magufuli seeks a second five-year term in Wednesday's vote, and opposition parties and human rights groups have expressed concern that the vote is already compromised in favor of the ruling party. In 2001, security forces killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 600 while suppressing opposition protests over alleged election fraud, Human Rights Watch reported.

In this image made from video, fires burn on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Tanzanian authorities say 500 volunteers have been trying to put out a fire on Africa's tallest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro. (AP Photo)NAIROBI – Tanzania's government is hoping helicopters and planes will help put out a fire raging on Mt. The fire started on Sunday afternoon in the Whona area, a tourist stopover for those climbing Mt.

In recent months the media has been the hardest hit with the government indefinitely banning the Tanzania Daima newspaper, the country's second-largest newspaper, Amnesty International said in its report. International and local rights groups have previously said Tanzania's democratic space has shrunk since Magufuli come to power five years ago. “Cumulatively, these changes have significantly eroded the rule of law and undermined respect for human rights,” the report said. Magufuli has declared that Tanzania no longer has a problem with the coronavirus, as COVID-19 has been defeated by prayer. The Amnesty report was compiled through 29 phone interviews, as researchers could not travel to Tanzania due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

THE HAGUE – The defense lawyer of an 87-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in France has appealed to an international court not to send him to Tanzania to face trial, but instead to transfer him to the Netherlands for health reasons, according to a written request filed Monday. Félicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, was arrested outside Paris in May after 25 years on the run. Citing health grounds including fears he could contract COVID-19 in Tanzania, his French lawyer says Kabuga should instead be sent to The Hague, Netherlands. The mechanism deals with cases remaining from now-closed U.N. tribunals that prosecuted atrocities committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s and the Rwandan genocide. Altit said Kabuga's health could be badly affected by a flight from Paris to Arusha and warned that he could also contract COVID-19 in Tanzania.

The World Health organization says Tanzania is not sharing information about suspected cases of Ebola "despite several requests." GENEVA - The World Health organization says Tanzania is not sharing information about suspected cases of Ebola "despite several requests." On September 14, Tanzania officially notified the WHO that no case of Ebola had been confirmed in the country, with the two suspected cases both testing negative. WHO said it had also received unofficial reports of a presumptive case of Ebola on September 19 but Tanzania said it had no suspected cases of Ebola in response to a WHO request for information. "The insufficient information received by WHO does not allow for a formulation of a hypotheses regarding the possible cause of the illness," the WHO statement said.