Kigoma, Tanzania – Just as dawn’s first rays start creeping over western Tanzania’s gentle hills, a constellation of scattered torchlights moving across the water signals the arrival of the ...

DODOMA: THE long-awaited major repair work on the MV Liemba, the world’s oldest “operating” passenger ship, has reached 15 ...

A few million years ago, fish were swimming quite happily in Lake Tanganyika. The lake itself – now classed as one of ...

Lake Tanganyika has always had its whims ... Yet the nets can still be legally imported from Tanzania and the DRC, and “the fishermen using them always get a very big catch,” he adds, pointing ...

DODOMA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Fishing activities in Lake Tanganyika, shared by Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, will be closed from May 15 to Aug. 15 to allow for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dawn hadn’t yet broken over the minarets and blue-glass towers of downtown Dar es Salaam. Nor had the ...

DAR ES SALAAM, March 6 (Reuters) - Tanzania said on Thursday it will ... in the Indian Ocean while three are also offshore but in Lake Tanganyika, Charles Sangweni, director general for the ...

Shaped like a thin, outstretched finger tracing the borders of Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi and Zambia, Lake Tanganyika is a place of superlatives: more than 400 ...