Reuters: Tanzania News

Fuel tanker and bus crash in Zambia, killing 18

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:51:12 +0000

LUSAKA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A bus and an oil tanker collided killing 18 people and seriously injuring 47 others in Zambia, police said on Tuesday.

Fashion show hails kanga as east Africa's kimono

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:28:00 +0000

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 10 (Reuters Life!) - For women in Tanzania's humid Dar es Salaam port city, the "kanga" is must-have material, functioning as an everyday wraparound dress, bath towel, shawl and, when ragged, dish cloth and mop too.

Rwanda to launch $27 million free trade zone

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:45:32 +0000

KIGALI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Rwanda will launch a $27 million free trade zone at the end of this year in an attempt to diversify exports and redress its widening trade deficit, authorities said on Tuesday.

Africa blocs draft giant free trade roadmap

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:31:35 +0000

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Three African trade blocs that have agreed to form a free trade area covering more than half a billion people created a long overdue roadmap on Monday.

INTERVIEW-Zain Tanzania sees FY user number boost, flat sales

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:59:26 +0000

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Zain Tanzania expects to post flat full-year revenues even though user numbers are seen rising strongly to year-end, as the global economic slowdown caps customer spending, a senior executive said on Monday.

UPDATE 1-Orca to more than double Tanzania gas capacity

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:22:03 +0000

CAPE TOWN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Toronto-listed Orca Exploration plans to more than double its daily gas output capacity at the Songo Songo field in Tanzania to 200 million cubic feet within three years, the head of the company said on Friday. Orca Chief Executive Peter Clutterbuck said production capacity was currently limited to 90 million cubic feet a day.

Orca to more than double Tanzania gas capacity

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:50:46 +0000

CAPE TOWN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Toronto-listed Orca Exploration plans to more than double its daily gas output capacity at the Songo Songo field in Tanzania to 200 million cubic feet within three years, the head of the company said on Friday. Orca's Chief Executive Peter Clutterbuck said production capacity was currently limited to 90 million cubic feet a day.

FACTBOX-Malaria's heavy toll on Africa

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:51 +0000

HONG KONG, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The world saw 247 million cases of malaria in 2006, causing nearly one million deaths. Around 90 percent of these were in Africa, most of them children. A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds.

China adopts "malaria diplomacy" as part of Africa push

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:47 +0000

HONG KONG, Nov 6 (Reuters) - In a laboratory in China's southern city of Guangzhou, scientists are trying to enhance the rare sweet wormwood shrub, from which artemisinin -- the best drug to fight malaria -- is derived.

UN court hands Rwanda tea boss 8 year prison term

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:36:43 +0000

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A U.N. genocide court on Thursday sentenced a former tea industry official from Rwanda to eight years in prison for ordering subordinates to kill hundreds of minority Tutsis hiding in a church.