Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Health authorities in Tanzania have started grappling with counterfeit anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) that find their way into the official medical supplies chain on...
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Tanzania papers focus on water safety, tuberculosis
Dar es salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - As nations marked the World Water Day during th e week, Tanzanian newspapers were abuzz with analysis of the safe water supply d i stribution to communities in the...
Tanzania faces fresh cholera, measles outbreaks
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA)- Health authorities announced here Monday that they had evacuated maternity wards at one of the Tanzania commercial capital's state-run hospitals to accommodate the...
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Tanzania seeks funds to repatriate Burundi refugees
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania appealed at the weekend for more international financing to quicken the repatriation of thousands of Burundi refugees in the East African country, saying it...
Tanzanians told to prepare for a bad harvest
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa has urged households to take urgent measures to confront a looming food shortage due to poor rains. In a nationwide broadcast...
Weather experts issue El Niño warning in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Weather experts in Tanzania have issued an El Niño warning predicting that the dreaded weather pattern would hit the country before the end of the year. Unlike the...
Tanzania: Refugees speak of weary plight
By Tom Osanjo, PANA Correspondent Kibondo, Tanzania (PANA) - Aisha Bamboneyeho has spent the better part of her 12 years living in a refugee camp. At the Day of African Child celebrations at Kibondo...
Educating refugee children in rural Tanzania is a challenge
By Tom Osanjo and Nicodemus Odhiambo, PANA Correspondents Kibondo, Tanzania (PANA) - Relief agencies and other NGOs operating in refugee camps in western Tanzania are racing against time to provide...
Famine threatens parts of Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Hunger is threatening some areas of Tanzania following a severe drought experienced in the last farming season, food security officials conceded Friday. According to...
Refugees along Tanzanian border get telecentres
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has initiated a partnership establishing a network of three multipurpose community telecentres (MCTs) in and around...
Tanzania's capital put under cholera quarantine
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Government authorities in Tanzania have imposed a ban on the sale of local brews and unsafe drinking water in a move to halt new cases of cholera in the capital, Dar...
Tanzania appeals for help to manage refugees
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The government of Tanzania has petitioned the international community to help it manage thousands of refugees currently in the country. Home Affairs minister Mohamed...
UNHCR team assesses political situation In Zanzibar
Alpha Nuhu Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - UN High Commissioner for Refugees officials are on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba to assess the political and security situation there in order to pave the for...
Tanzania: Quake Victims Get Relief
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - The Tanzanian government has announced relief aid for the 6,082 victims of an earthquake that struck the District of Rungwe a month ago. Indications from the Disaster...
Tanzania: Desertification Causes Socio-Economic Crisis
By Alpha Nuhu Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - The lush green vegetation in many parts of Tanzania can give a deceptive image that desertification is simply a fictitious scheme executed by the country's...
Army Worms Attack Tanzanian Farms As Drought Ends
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - After experiencing a long period of drought accompanied by acute famine, peasants in some parts of Tanzania sighed with relief when rain started falling early December. Most...
Poor Rainfall Diminishes Tanzania's Grain Output
Nicodemus Odhiambo Dar Es Salaam A short feeble short rainy season last year in many parts of Tanzania has played havoc on the country's annual grain requirement, which has dropped by 700,000 tons,...
AIDS Threatens Tanzania's Survival
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - President Benjamin Mkapa has warned that the survival of Tanzania was at stake in light of a shocking infection rate of HIV/AIDS that was spreading across the vast nation...
Tanzanian Peasants Feed On Seeds As Famine Bites
Deodatus Mfugale Dar es Salaam The food situation in Tanzania, and indeed in more than a score of Sub-Saharan countries, is alarming. Long periods of drought and civil strife are among factors which...
Over a Million Tanzanians Reel Under Drought
Arusha - About 1.3 million people in Tanzania are in urgent need of relief food following crop failure for four consecutive years in parts of the east African country. The affected population,...