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May 2026

  • Malaika Meena sorting out the donated kit.

    Moving the Goalposts newsletter
    The donation drive that became a movement: ‘If anyone’s got any kit, we’re taking some to Tanzania’

    WSL2 midfielder Malaika Meena has been collecting football kit to send to her ‘favourite country in the world’
    Newsletter

April 2026

  • a woman smiles for a photograph

    Suspicion surrounds death of US influencer Ashly Robinson in Zanzibar

    Lifestyle influencer died while on vacation with boyfriend, who local officials say has since had his passport ‘withheld’

March 2026

  • Pedestrians walking past the Court of Appeal building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Women in prison
    Woman has sentence quashed by Tanzania court after over a decade on death row

  • A woman sits on a green sofa in front of a huge photographic portrait of an older woman wearing a head wrap.

    My sexual freedom odyssey: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today

January 2026

  • Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam Coco beach

    ActionAid sponsorship schemes: helping children and women or a colonial relic?

    Letters: Readers respond to the news that the development charity is rethinking such schemes as they carry racialised, paternalistic undertones

November 2025

  • People walk on a street where huge clouds of smoke consume burning buildings

    Opinion
    double quotation markTanzania’s descent into repression is a stark warning of how fast Africa’s progress can be eroded

    Kenneth Mohammed
    When she became president, Samia Suluhu Hassan offered hope. But the country’s sudden democratic decay is more than just a national tragedy
  • A health worker in protective clothing carries waste for disposal outside the isolation ward where v..A health worker in protective clothing carries waste for disposal outside the isolation ward where victims of the deadly Marburg virus are treated in the northern Angolan town of Uige, April 20, 2005. Over 200 people have died of the disease, with children under the age of five particularly vulnerable. Picture taken April 20, 2005.

    Ethiopia confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus

    Africa CDC says at least nine cases have been detected of Ebola-like illness, which kills up to 80% of those infected

    • The Long Wave
      From Kenya to Madagascar, the African countries struggling to escape old politics

      Newsletter

    • Tanzania police arrest opposition party official after deadly election protests

    • Tanzania’s Hassan declared landslide winner in election that triggered violent protests

October 2025

  • Tanzanian riot police officers walk past a vandalised campaign poster of President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

    About 700 killed in Tanzania election protests, opposition says

  • Samia Suluhu Hassan at a campaign rally

    Violent protests erupt as Tanzanian president nears election victory

September 2025

  • Midwife Leticia Nakandi listens to the tummy of an unidentified pregnant woman.

    Trump’s aid cuts in east Africa led to unwanted abortion and babies being born with HIV – report

  • Five women of different ages from Africa, Australasia, South and Central America, and south-east Asia

    Not just resisting, but leading the fight: five women who refuse to be ignored

August 2025

  • A small sloth clings to a barbed-wire fencepost where a path meets farmland

    The age of extinction
    Wildlife photographer of the year 2025 – in pictures

    Picked from a record 60,636 entries, the first images from the Natural History Museum’s wildlife photographer of the year competition have been released. The photographs, which range from a lion facing down a cobra to magnified mould spores, show the diversity, beauty and complexity of the natural world and humanity’s relationship with it. The winners will be announced on 14 October
    Gallery15
  • A banner reading 'Execute Justice not People' is held up against a backdrop of palm trees

    Pressure grows on Tanzania to free victim of domestic violence who has been on death row for 13 years

    Lemi Limbu, who was convicted of murdering her daughter, has severe intellectual disabilities and ‘absolutely should not be in prison’, say campaigners
  • A sign that says 'methods of family planning' and examples including pills, condoms and coils in a family care clinic in Kenya.

    US destruction of contraceptives denies 1.4m African women and girls lifesaving care, NGO says

    Incineration of $9.7m of contraceptives to lead to 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions, IPPF says

June 2025

  • Agather Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi sitting in front of microphones

    ‘We won’t let them get away with this’: activists to sue Tanzania’s government over ‘sexual torture’

  • A young chimpanzee in Gombe Stream national park, where Hope Through Action works

    Jane Goodall chimpanzee conservation project in Tanzania hit by USAID cuts

May 2025

  • A group of women stand in a staggered line in a hotel foyer, most wearing saris

    From Sri Lanka to Tanzania: the pioneering hotels run entirely by women

    In countries where tourism is still a male domain, all-female establishments are providing much-needed job opportunities
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