As our plane landed at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport on the tropical island of Zanzibar, we were immediately greeted by the familiar beauty of its palm-fringed shores. What made the ...

TANZANIAN businessman Mohamed Dewji, known as Mo, has been named East Africa’s wealthiest individual with a net worth of $2.2 billion nearly 5.3trn/-), according to Forbes. This is a significant rise ...

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French President Emmanuel Macron started a two-day visit to the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar on Wednesday and spoke of ...

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On Sunday at 8:20 p.m. a beach hazards statement was released by the NWS Newport/Morehead City NC valid for Monday between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. for East Carteret and Ocracoke Island. "Dangerous rip ...

Mamadou Dian Balde, UNHCR regional director for East Africa, termed the two-year-old Sudan crisis “the most horrible, brutal conflict that has led to human suffering that has affected more than ...

What's good about it? Zanzibar is located off the coast of Tanzania and is a beacon of Swahili culture. Its history is marked by Persian settlers and Omani sultans, and it played a pivotal role in ...

The pilot and passengers were conducting an aerial survey flight of an island off South Africa's Eastern Cape on January 19, 2025. The helicopter safely landed on Bird Island. Before departing ...