Ericsson Temu wrote history as the first Tanzanian football referee to officiate a match in England when he officiated a match between Charlton Athletics FC against Queens Park Rangers FC U23. The referee also played a Confederations Cup match for players under the age of 23 when he oversaw the third-round match between Herne...
Over 30 bodies have been recovered from River Yala on the western side of Kenya since July 2021. Haki Africa has reported that there have been mystery deaths and dumping of bodies and in recent weeks 20 bodies were recovered and stored at a mortuary in Yala county. Activist Boniface Mwangi went to Yala Hospital...
Tanzania and Burundi signed a multimillion-dollar deal to build a Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) linking Gitega, Burundi, to the Indian Ocean. According to a statement released by Tanzania’s Ministry of Finance and Planning, a 282 kilometre SGR railway line will run from Uvinza in Tanzania’s Kigoma region to Gitega in Burundi. Officials from both countries...
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, former Mali president, died on January 16, 2022, at his home in Bamako at 76. Keïta served as Mali’s president from 2013 until 2020, when the military overthrew him. “President IBK (Ibrahim Boubacar Keita) died this morning at 9 am (GMT and local) at his home in Bamako,” a family member told...
Two years ago, on August 24, 2019, an American Peace Corps employee in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s after having too much to drink killed a woman leaving two others injured in a series of car crashes. At the scene of the accident, bystanders attacked the man’s car and chased him on motorcycles as he attempted...