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☆ Floods kill more than 20 people in northern Tanzania
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 3 (Reuters) - At least 20 people have been killed by floods after heavy rain in the Manyara region of northern Tanzania, the ministry of health said on Sunday. Severe flooding caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon has killed hundreds of people in Kenya and Somalia in recent weeks. "We are very shocked by this event," President Samia Suluhu Hassan said in a video message posted online by the Tanzanian ministry of health. The more than 20 people were killed in Katesh village in the Hanang district of Manyara, the president said. The heavy rain on Saturday night caused landslides in some areas of Mount Hanang, domestic media outlets reported, adding that the waters also swept away livestock.

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[1/5] Participants react with Pride rainbow flags as they attend the Badilika festival to celebrate the LGBT rights in Nairobi, Kenya, June 11, 2023. Some regional lawmakers frame the issue as an almost existential battle to save African values and sovereignty, which they say have been battered by Western pressure to capitulate on gay rights. Spokespeople for the Kenyan presidency and government didn't respond to requests for comment about the proposed bill. Several called for legislation to strengthen penalties for same-sex acts, including the deputy majority leader, who said gay sex could be punished by hanging. President William Ruto, an evangelical Christian, has criticized a February supreme court decision allowing an LGBT rights group to register as a non-governmental organization.

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☆ Kamala Harris announces Tanzania trade boost during Africa tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Nuzulack Dausen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/4] U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris talks to her Tanzanian counterpart Philip Mpango as she arrives in Tanzania, the second stop of a three-nation tour of Africa, at the Julius Nyerere Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania March 29, 2023. "Working together, it is our shared goal to increase economic investment in Tanzania and strengthen our economic ties," Harris said, listing a number of initiatives. China has invested heavily in Africa in the last two decades, and last November the Tanzanian president met China's President Xi Jinping during a state visit to Beijing. Under Hassan, Tanzania has returned to international engagement after a period of isolationism enforced by her predecessor John Magufuli, who cancelled all his ministers' foreign trips and discouraged travel. "Madam President, under your leadership Tanzania has taken important and meaningful steps and President Joe Biden and I applaud you," Harris said, standing alongside Hassan.

It could also negatively impact African nations that produce battery materials. The United States has a Free Trade Agreement in place with only one African country, Morocco. Battery materials and trade are set to be a focus at next week's U.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit in Washington where President Joe Biden will meet presidents of African countries including Congo. Under IRA, U.S. carmakers will get tax credits if they source at least 40% of battery materials domestically or from American free-trade partners. His is one of many projects across sub-Saharan Africa aiming to produce battery materials like lithium, nickel and graphite.

☆ Vodacom Tanzania says first half EBITDA down 4% yer-on-year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Vodacom Tanzania (VODA.TZ) said on Friday its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell 4% in the first half of the year, hurt by a drop in voice and mobile money transfer revenues. Tanzania's biggest telecoms operator, which is partly owned by South Africa's Vodacom Group Ltd (VODJ.J), said in a statement revenue for the first six months ended September 30 from its M-Pesa financial services operations fell 3% to 169.6 billion shillings ($73 million). Its voice revenues fell 2% to 143.8 billion shillings, while EBITDA fell to 154 billion shillings from 159.6 billion shillings in the same period last year, it said. ($1 = 2,329.0000 Tanzanian shillings)Reporting by Nuzulack Dausen; Editing by George Obulutsa and James Macharia ChegeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Nuzulack Dausen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 6 (Reuters) - A passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while attempting to land in stormy weather at an airport in the lakeside city of Bukoba, the state broadcaster said. The aircraft, which had departed from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, "fell in Lake Victoria this morning due to storms and heavy rains", TBC reported. Video footage and images that circulated on social media showed the plane almost fully submerged, with only its green and brown-coloured tail visible above the water line of Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake. Rescue boats were deployed and emergency workers were continuing to rescue other passengers trapped in the plane, TBC added. "I have received with sadness the news of the accident involving Precision Air's plane," she tweeted.

Now it bustles with vessels loading up with coal, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine drives a worldwide race for the polluting fuel. The resurgent coal demand, driven by governments trying to wean themselves off Russian energy while keeping a lid on power prices, clashes with climate plans to shift away from the most polluting fossil fuel. Global seaborne thermal coal imports reached 97.8 million tonnes in July, the highest level on record and up more than 9% year-on-year, an analysis from ship broker Braemar shows. The bloc's ban on Russian coal imports has further increased pressure on electricity generators to find alternative sources of the fuel. Russia usually provides about 70% of the EU's thermal coal, according to the Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel, while it typically supplies 40% of the bloc's natural gas.

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