POLICE in Zanzibar have assured residents of the busy Urban West Region of their safety throughout Easter celebrations. Briefing reporters at Muembe Madema police station yesterday, Acting Urban West ...

In the heart of Bonyokwa Ward in Dar es Salaam and Chumbuni Constituency in Zanzibar, waste once seen as a burden is now a beacon of hope. Thanks to the Zero Waste Model introduced by Nipe Fagio, ...

In the village of Sreemoddi under Cumilla's Homna upazila, the melodious craft of bamboo flute-making has quietly persisted for generations. Around 40 families are engaged in this time-honoured ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanganyika -- Zanzibar President Abeid Karume arrived here today amid cheers of a welcoming crowd to merge his leftist-ruled spice island with the neighboring East African state of ...

Necessity is the mother of all invention, and the Gucci Bamboo 1947 stands as a prime example. In 1947, amidst post-war material shortages, particularly of leather, Gucci’s Florentine artisans sought ...

Dar es Salaam. As Tanzania commemorates 61 years since the formation of the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, a long-standing narrative continues to spark debate: the notion that Zanzibar ...

Some of the footage, notably aerial shots of the Arab massacre in Zanzibar, is doubtless truthful. But interior evidence in the film itself suggests that many of the scenes are phony. One dubious ...

I observe international affairs from Washington, capital of a superpower which used to be the world’s more-or-less benevolent hegemon, but which is now groping for a different role as a ...

Thanks to “The White Lotus” and a certain bougie North Carolinian matriarch (my personal S3 favorite character), Gucci’s iconic bamboo top handle bag is trending in a big way these days.

Climate change Green Safaris (Zambia): Celebrated for “Silent Safaris” using solar-powered electric vehicles, eliminating single-use plastics, and promoting bamboo planting and fuel-efficient ...

Here in Kenya, the government is on a mission to combat the negative effects of climate change, improve livelihoods and restore degraded landscapes. It has set an ambitious goal of increasing its ...