In Tanzania, only 2% of people born with albinism will live to the age of 40.
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Green spaces have the potential to reduce heat and improve health, especially in urban areas.
Tazara upgrade requires huge capital but new tracks could be incompatible with the existing Southern Africa rails.
A variety of cultural performances evoking intense emotions occur during the Islamic month of Muharram. A scholar observed the processions on Ashoura in northern Tanzania.
The lack of a system to support youth development is just one reason why Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda have produced few top footballers.
To understand the perceptions of TB patients about their quality of life, it’s useful to have a comparison with “apparently healthy” people.
Kenya’s ethnic-based politics often leads to electoral violence that hurts regional trade.
Violence in the DRC can be brought to an end if the geographical scope of the conflict is broadened to include all neighbouring countries.
Just over 100 years ago, Maasai in Kenya were moved into reserves, where they could be more easily taxed and controlled, to make way for white settlement.
Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.
Intermediary cities have a vital role to play in the economies of African countries.
Cooperating with honeyguides has been found to increase food security. It facilitates cultural traditions and enables income or trade.
Informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are highly vulnerable to the health effects of heat.
Stricter measures had major impacts on farmers’ livelihoods and food security.
Instead of evicting pastoralists from their ancestral land, more effort must be made to create new opportunities for them.
These types of projects can be quite harmful. They affect the land, people and biodiversity and must be planned with all this in mind - building in future climate scenarios too.
Not only are physical banks out of reach, people also face barriers to using digital financial services.
President Samia Hassan has set Tanzania on a change of course – time will tell if the pattern holds and addresses the country’s challenges.
Antimicrobial resistance disproportionately affects the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries.
President Samia Hassan may have been an ‘accidental president’ but Tanzania’s leader has set out to showcase her own political strategy.
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