By Colleen Thomas From Tribune News Service You wake up to a cacophony of birdsong as the sky lightens. Propping yourself on pillows, you scan the wild African landscape out the front screen of the room. An impala noiselessly strides past while a bird swoops into view, a flash of shimmering blue, orange and green….

Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff leave the United States in late March to travel to the African cities of Accra, Ghana; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Lusaka, Zambia. The recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Forum, which President Joe Biden convened in Washington in December 2022, will serve as a foundation for the vice…

Along the eastern coast of Africa, the Swahili people have long intrigued scientists. It is believed that between the 10th and 15th centuries, the Swahili erected dozens of stone-built opulent cities in this area. …

NAIROBI, Kenya—A high court in Tanzania on Friday sentenced 11 people to death for the murder of a conservationist in the East African country more than five years ago. Anti-poaching activist Wayne Lotter, a South African national, was shot dead in August 2017 while riding in a taxi in Tanzania’s commercial capital of Dar es…

DAR ES SALAAM—At least 19 people died when a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday morning while trying to land at a nearby airport, the prime minister said. Flight PW494, operated by Precision Air, hit the water during storms and heavy rain, the state Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) reported. Rescuers in…

DODOMA, Tanzania—Police in Tanzania say three people, including two police officers, have been shot dead in a confrontation near the French Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Inspector general of police Simon Sirro told reporters that the armed man was a foreigner and police believe he was from Somalia. Sirro also warned that the attack could…

DAR ES SALAAM—A gunman killed three police officers and a private security guard on a rampage through a diplomatic quarter of Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, before being shot dead while holed up in a guardhouse at the French embassy’s gate. Videos on the internet, apparently filmed by onlookers from buildings across…

NAIROBI, Kenya—Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer. Populist President John Magufuli on Feb. 21 urged citizens of the East African country to take precautions and even wear face masks—but only locally made ones. Over the course of…