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Tanzania stories: 25 news summaries

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 Chimps Can Get AIDS: Study 

SIV-infected chimps have high death rate, low T-cell counts

Jul 22, 09 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have found evidence that chimpanzees can be sickened by SIV, the non-human version of HIV, adding to the understanding of how HIV/AIDS developed, the AP reports. Scientists have long believed that while other primates can contract simian immunodeficiency virus, they are not affected by it. A 9-year study of... More »

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disease • HIV • Tanzania • monkey • chimpanzees • apes • HIV/AIDS

Thirteen Bodies, Plane Wreckage Found Near Tanzania

Remains suspected to be from Yemenia flight

Jul 7, 09 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thirteen bodies found off the coast of Tanzania’s Mafia Island may be the remains of passengers from the Yemen Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean last week, Reuters reports. Tanzanian authorities say that airplane seats and what may be part of an airplane wing were also found... More »

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Africa • flight • Tanzania • plane crash • Indian Ocean • Comoros • accident • remains • bodies • Yemenia Air

Tanzania Opens Trials in Killings of Albinos

Dozens arrested in 40 murders; body parts used for witchcraft

Jun 9, 09 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tanzania is trying seven people for murdering albinos and selling their body parts for use in witchcraft, the BBC reports. Dozens have been arrested in some 40 murders over the past year and a half, but so far no one has been convicted. Witch doctors sell “albino potions” for... More »

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Africa • crime • murder • Tanzania • trial • witchcraft • albino

 First Gitmo Detainee 
 Arrives in US for Trial 

Ahmed Ghailani to be tried for bombing US embassies

Jun 9, 09 6:06 AM CDT
(AP) - The first Guantanamo Bay detainee has landed on US soil, landing in New York to face trial on charges of bombing US embassies, the Justice Department said today. Ahmed Ghailani arrived in the early morning, to be held in law enforcement custody until his trial in federal court in lower... More »

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Kenya • Department of Justice • terrorism • Tanzania • Lower Manhattan • trial • Guantanamo Bay • bombing • court • US Embassy • terror trial • Eric Holder • Ahmed Ghailani

 Timberlake to Scale 
 Kilimanjaro for Charity 

Star climbing African mountain to raise awareness of global water crisis

Apr 15, 09 5:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Justin Timberlake is taking on Mount Kilimanjaro in an effort to raise awareness about the world water crisis, Access Hollywood reports. The star—who has been training four times a week to boost his lung capacity for the week-long climb—will be joined by Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco and Ethiopian-born... More »

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Tanzania • charity • Justin Timberlake • fundraiser • mountain • clean water

(Newser) - The government of Tanzania is turning to a secret “referendum” to ferret out those behind a surge in killings that have left 45 albinos dead in the past 15 months, the BBC reports. Officials aim to collect, in writing, names of suspects. “When you invite people to accuse... More »

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Tanzania • albino • witch doctors

 Watershed Vaccine 
 May End Malaria Toll 

If trials work as expected, shots could save millions of children

Dec 9, 08 1:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have developed a promising vaccine against malaria, a devastating disease that kills a milion people a year, most of them young children. Trials of the breakthrough vaccine enter the final phase next year and it could be widely available by 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times. Successful trials have... More »

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Kenya • medical breakthrough • malaria • Ethiopia • GlaxoSmithKline • Tanzania • vaccine • mosquito • Zambia • World Health Organization • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Rwanda • RTS,S • PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative

(Newser) - Move over, Rover: Man has a new best friend that is helping to combat two scourges plaguing the developing world. Rats, normally reviled as filthy vermin, are sniffing out land mines and detecting tuberculosis bacteria. "Rats are usually considered pests or enemies of humanity,” said one Mozambican handler,... More »

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Africa • United Nations • Mozambique • Tanzania • rats • land mines • tuberculosis • dog

Murders Terrify Tanzanian Albinos

Killers sell
body parts for
use in witchcraft

Nov 4, 08 2:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Tanzanian Albinos are living in fear, "unsure of waking up in one piece," said one, as 30 have been killed this year for their body parts, the Guardian reports. Their pigment-free hair, skin, genitals, and extremities are used in witchcraft to bring enrichment, a “stupid belief,... More »

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crime • murder • Tanzania • witchcraft • albino

ANALYSIS

 Downturns Spark 'Witch 
 Hunts' Against Elderly 

People lash out during tough times, researchers explain

Sep 20, 08 8:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - "Witch-hunting” is a hot term these days as angry Wall Street investors pine for revenge—but in some countries they take it literally, Tim Harford writes in Slate. In Tanzania, Bolivia, and India, elderly women are often targeted as witches when resources are scarce. Tanzanian women are killed by... More »

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economics • Tanzania • poverty • witchcraft • witches

ANALYSIS

Biofuel Firms' African Land Grab Has Colonial Echoes

Western companies shower nations with promises met with some suspicion

Sep 5, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Africa is being seeded for a coming boom in biofuels, as Western companies buy thousands of acres to cultivate vegetable-oil-rich plants like the Jatropha curcas, Der Spiegel reports. In countries like Tanzania, Ghana and Ethiopia, firms are often securing century-long farming rights for nothing but a promise to invest in... More »

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Africa • Ethiopia • biofuel • Tanzania • colonialism • biodiesel • green technology • Ghana

65 Feared Dead in Tanzania Mine

Six recovered, 59 missing as flash floods combine with downed power lines

Mar 30, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers now fear that 65 miners trapped in a northern Tanzanian mine shaft have drowned, reports Reuters, with six bodies recovered and 59 workers missing. Volunteers raced to the remote gemstone mine near Mount Kilimanjaro yesterday when flash floods swept through the area, but the torrential weather also brought down... More »

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Africa • Tanzania • drowning • miners • missing person • tanzanite • mining accidents

Malaria: Africa's Success Story

Well-funded prevention effort brings down infection rates

Feb 19, 08 9:45 AM CST
(Newser) - A new anti-malaria effort will provide a mosquito net to every Tanzanian child under age 5, reports the Washington Post. President Bush visited northern Tanzania yesterday to announce the program, spotlighting Africa's hugely successful fight against malaria, with committed African and Western governments collaborating on the well-funded strategy. In Zanzibar,... More »

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Africa • malaria • public health • Tanzania • Zanzibar • George W. Bush

Wealth Doesn't Always
Aid Health

UN finds child mortality rates uneven in
developing nations

Feb 18, 08 3:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Citing new child mortality statistics, analysts say a nation's wealth doesn’t always translate into better health for its youngest citizens, the BBC reports. Every year, 10 million children die before their fifth birthday, with 99% of the fatalities occurring in the developing world. But even when conditions improve, survival... More »

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health • India • wealth • Gordon Brown • Tanzania • Malawi • doctor • Nepal • Bangladesh • Save the Children • malnutrition • child mortality • Angola • ancient customs • Millennium Development Goals

Bush Pushes Abstinence in AIDS Program

In Tanzania, president prods Congress to renew global aid pact

Feb 17, 08 1:21 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush urged Congress today to “stop squabbling” and renew his global AIDS program, which provides medication and treatment for millions and earmarks funds for abstinence efforts. In Tanzania, his African tour’s second stop, Bush signed a $700 million aid package, saying, “We don’t want people... More »

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Barack Obama • Tanzania • aid • abstinence education • Liberia • Rwanda • abstinence • HIV/AIDS • Ghana • US Congress • Benin • Jakaya Kikwete • AIDS prevention • PEFPAR • George W. Bush

Bush Signs $700M Grant
for Tanzania

Rice, meanwhile, prepares to join negotiations in Kenya

Feb 17, 08 6:35 AM CST
(Newser) - During the second stop on his whirlwind African tour, President Bush heaped praise on Tanzania's president and signed over a $698 million grant for infrastructure development. "We like dealing with honest people and compassionate people," Bush said of his trip, which is avoiding current hot spots like Kenya... More »

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Africa • Tanzania • foreign aid • Liberia • Rwanda • Ghana • Benin • George W. Bush

James Spain Dead at 81

Career diplomat served as US Ambassador in Tanzania, Turkey & Sri Lanka

Jan 6, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - James Spain, a career diplomat in the US Foreign Service, passed away of natural causes in Wilmington, NC at age 81 on January 2, 2008.  Ambassador Spain's life was devoted to serving his country first in the US Army as a photographer on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff in occupied... More »

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Turkey • Pakistan • diplomacy • Sri Lanka • obituary • Tanzania • diplomat • Pathans

Africa Nations
Move to Ban
Plastic Bags

90% don't make it to dumps, clogging sewers, littering streets

Dec 2, 07 6:55 PM CST
(Newser) - With garbage rotting in the streets and being burnt in toxic bonfires, many African countries are looking to ban plastic bags. Kenya produces 48 million every year, and is now trying to follow Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda by outlawing them. In Nairobi’s slums, bags even clog channels leading out... More »

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Kenya • plastic bags • Nigeria • Tanzania • ban • Nairobi • Uganda

World's Best Green Hotels

Leave a footprint as small as your carry-on at a luxurious eco-hotel

Nov 5, 07 10:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Solar-heated pools, energy-conserving lights, composted food scraps . . . hotels aren't all bastions of consumption and waste. Travel+Leisure teamed up with Conservation International to assemble a list of 20 eco-friendly hotels:
  1. Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada
  2. Soneva Fushi Resort & Six Senses Spa, Maldives
  3. Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka
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Australia • green building • ecotourism • Sri Lanka • Switzerland • Tanzania • Egypt • list • ecology • Philippines • hotel • spa • Bahamas • Colorado • green travel • LEED • Maldives • Zanzibar

Tech Wraps Growing Web Around World

Some worry about cultural loss as cell phones, e-mail spread

Oct 8, 07 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Global cellphone and computer usage is up dramatically as inequalities in technology drop. Cellphone ownership has grown 20% in the US, where 80% of the population uses computers, third in the world behind Sweden and South Korea. Computer usage is up in 26 of 35 countries in a new Pew... More »

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Russia • environment • technology • cell phones • Nigeria • Tanzania • culture • developing world • computer

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