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Tanzania

Tanzania is a country in East Africa with a coastline on the Indian Ocean. Neighboring countries include Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Mozambique. Tanzania suffered under brutal German colonial rule from 1885 to 1918.

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April 25, 2024

Flooding in Tanzania and Kenya claims scores of lives

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Reports & Analysis

Residents of Nairobi's Mathare neighborhood are seen in a flooded street after heavy rains as they try to evacuate the area with their belongings

El Nino climate pattern intensifies in East Africa

El Nino climate pattern intensifies in East Africa

Millions have been displaced due to widespread flooding, with entire areas in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania under water.
ClimateApril 26, 2024
Tansania Sansibar Präsidentin Samia Suluhu Hassan bei Kizimkazi Festival

Tanzania union going strong: Tanganyika and Zanzibar turn 60

Tanzania union going strong: Tanganyika and Zanzibar turn 60

On April 26, 1964, the African nations of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
SocietyApril 26, 202401:29 min
Displaced people from the province of Cabo Delgado gather to received humanitarian aid from the World Food Program (WFP)

Mozambique: Jihadists from abroad pour into Cabo Delgado

Mozambique: Jihadists from abroad pour into Cabo Delgado

After months of relative calm, Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province is experiencing a fresh wave of Islamist attacks.
PoliticsMarch 20, 2024
Men stand around canoes during Robert Koch's Africa expedition in in 1906

How distrust in Western vaccines was born during colonialism

How distrust in Western vaccines was born during colonialism

Many unsafe vaccinations were tested on African subjects without their knowledge or consent during the colonial era.
HistoryMarch 18, 2024
DW Sendung The 77 Percent

Street Debate: Does German colonialism affect the present?

Street Debate: Does German colonialism affect the present?

What did Germany’s brutal colonial rule in leave behind. We ask Tanzanian youths and direct descendants of those harmed.
HistoryMarch 14, 202408:44 min
Shadows of German Colonialism EP 08

The traumatic legacy of colonial era vaccination programs

The traumatic legacy of colonial era vaccination programs

Colonial doctors tested unproven serums on Africans, leaving a legacy of trauma that has never been properly cured.
HistoryMarch 4, 202411:49 min
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Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain

From Kaiser Wilhelm Spitze to Uhuru Peak: Why names matter

Colonialists uprooted communities and also tried to destroy their identities. That's why place names matter in Africa.
HistoryFebruary 15, 2024
Screenshot which says "Healthy me: Overcoming heroin addiction" and shows the program host in the foreground with needles in the background.

How a woman in Tanzania overcame her heroin addiction

A former addict in Tanzania talks of how she started using heroin and the methadone program that helped her get clean.
HealthFebruary 13, 202405:33 min
Sign showing the town of Lüderitz

Shady deals: How German colonists bought an empire in Africa

Dodgy land contracts by German merchants helped legitimize German colonial claims in Africa.
HistoryDecember 6, 2023
A group of Hadzabe people sit together on the ground in their village

Meet one of Africa's last hunter-gatherer tribes

Threatened by climate change, what's being done to protect small, Indigenous communities like the Hadzabe in Tanzania?
SocietyNovember 19, 202302:19 min
German President Steinmeier in Tanzania

German president apologizes for colonial crimes in Tanzania

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes for the Maji Maji massacre and other German colonial abuses in Tanzania.
PoliticsNovember 1, 202305:01 min
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaking at a business conference

Germany seeks investment boost in Africa

Germany's top leaders are visiting Africa to cement business ties and discuss new investment opportunities.
BusinessOctober 29, 2023