The protest in Kinshasa was authorised and began peacefully, but clashes broke out between protesters and pro-government supporters. Both sides threw stones and brandished machetes.

When President Samia Suluhu Hassan recently issued a stern directive to local authorities, describing the state of filth in Tanzania’s major commercial hubs as a "disgrace" that threatens public health and economic growth, she highlighted an urgent national challenge.

The move is significant for an agency responsible for managing a vast and diverse forest estate, including natural forests, plantations and mangroves, where conventional monitoring methods can be costly and difficult to sustain.

Tanesco Director-General Lazaro Twange said construction of the Imalilo substation was 80 percent complete, while the Ibadakuli-Bariadi transmission line was 60 percent complete.

The Higher Education Students' Loans Board (HESLB) has extended the deadline for loan applications by four days for students who failed to complete the process due to network challenges, while saying applicants who have not started the process will not be given extra time.

The Higher Education Students' Loans Board (HESLB) has extended the deadline for loan applications by four days for students who failed to complete the process due to network challenges, while saying applicants who have not started the process will not be given extra time.

Chadema Mainland Vice Chairman John Heche has claimed that the 2015 Tarime Rural parliamentary election that brought him to Parliament was void.

Tanzanian secondary school students have developed technology to predict areas at risk of flooding as the country prepares for possible heavy rains associated with El Niño.

The High Court Sub-Registry in Musoma has sentenced Ndisi Maswi to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering his neighbour, Ms Suzana Zacharia, by inflicting multiple injuries on her body with a machete.

“I was sleeping here; two girls who are my child's friends came. I saw them and was startled. I asked them, why have you come so early in the morning dressed wrapped up like that, or has Irene died?”