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☆ More wealthy travelers are going on luxury safaris — some for more than $2,500 a day
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some luxury travel agencies and tour operators say they've seen an uptick in travelers booking luxury safaris. She's not alone — as of late, a growing number of travelers have been itching to go on a luxurious African safari, too. Micato SafarisLuxury tour operator Abercrombie and Kent's African safaris have always been among its best-selling vacations, the company told BI in an email. AdvertisementSome luxury travel agencies are noticing it, tooLuxury travel agency Indagare told BI in an email that safari bookings are "trending upward. AdvertisementWith such prices, some travelers might consider luxury safaris a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Persons: —, Sophie Serrano, Serrano, " Serrano, She's, Abercrombie, buffalos —, Dennis Pinto, Safaris, Micato, Pinto, Richard Waite, Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, — Singita, Singita, Melissa Krueger, Indagare, Scott Dunn, Julie Durso, Jackie Roth, Sophie Serrano Misty Belles, Take Serrano, Isabella John Organizations: Service, Micato's, Scott Dunn Private, Nomad, Kruger Locations: Zanzibar, Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Tanzania's, Botswana, South, Umlani's

☆ Africa has its own crises but alignment is not easy, says Tanzania's defense minister
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAfrica has its own crises but alignment is not easy, says Tanzania's defense ministerSpeaking at the Munich Security Conference, Tanzania Defense Minister Stergomena Tax discusses issues facing Africa currently, and how they can be addressed.

Organizations: Africa, Munich Security Conference, Tanzania Defense, Stergomena Locations: Africa

☆ Ethiopia's Assefa smashes women's marathon world record in Berlin
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BERLIN, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa shattered the women's marathon world record in Berlin on Sunday, lopping off more than two minutes from the previous best to clock an official time of two hours 11 minutes and 53 seconds. "I knew I wanted to go for the world record but I never thought I would do this time," said the 26-year-old, a former 800-metre runner. Her remarkable victory overshadowed men's world record holder Eliud Kipchoge's record fifth victory on Berlin's quick and flat inner-city course. Compatriot Vincent Kipkemoi was second, with a time of two hours three minutes 13 seconds and Ethiopia's Tadese Takele third. She had no problem maintaining her pace and at the 37km mark she was just three seconds per kilometre slower than Kipchoge's time at the same stage, cruising to a sensational world record.

Persons: Assefa, lopping, pulverise Kenyan Brigid Kosgei's, Eliud, Kipchoge, Vincent Kipkemoi, Tadese, Workenesh Edesa, Sheila Chepkirui, Tanzania's Magdalena Shauri, Karolos Grohmann, Hugh Lawson Organizations: pulverise Kenyan, Ethiopian Olympic, National Committee, Climate, Thomson Locations: Berlin, Paris, Kenya

[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.

Persons: Mohamed Ali doesn't, Ali, Weeks, Bill, Yoweri Museveni, Annette Atieno, John Agany, Jacqueline Ngonyani, Ngonyani, Damas Ndumbaro, William Ruto, Peter Kaluma, Uganda's, Kaluma, U.S . State Department didn't, Stella Kachina, Marylize Biubwa, Lorna Dias, Dias, Nuzulack Dausen, Waakhe Simon Wudu, Daphne Psaledakis, Estelle Shirbon, Aaron Ross, Pravin Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Kenyan, National Gay, Human Rights Commission, U.S . State Department, East, NAIROBI PRIDE, Gay and Lesbian Coalition of, Thomson Locations: Nairobi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, NAIROBI, East Africa, Juba, United, Africa, Entebbe, Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, Ruto, Dar es, Washington

☆ Equinor, Shell and Exxon agree LNG project with Tanzania
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Terje Solsvik | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

OSLO, May 19 (Reuters) - Equinor (EQNR.OL), Shell (SHEL.L) and Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) have agreed a deal with the government of Tanzania for the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in the East African country, the two sides said on Friday. "It paves the way for the series of milestones that need to follow to realise this fantastic LNG opportunity for the country and the world," Equinor's Tanzania country manager Unni Fjaer said in a statement. Equinor and Shell are joint operators of the development while Exxon, Pavilion Energy, Medco Energi and Tanzania's national oil company TPDC are partners. Tanzania said in 2014 that the project could cost $30 billion to develop, but analysts have said cost inflation in recent years could add billions more to the investment. Shell operates Tanzania's Block 1 and Block 4, which hold 16 trillion cubic feet in estimated recoverable gas.

☆ Tanzania expects economy to rebound in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

NAIROBI, April 28 (Reuters) - Tanzania's economy is expected to grow faster this year compared with a year earlier, but performance could be dampened by effects of the war in Ukraine, Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba said in a letter to the International Monetary Fund. In the letter dated April 4 and made public on Friday, Nchemba said the economy was expected to expand by about 5.2% in 2023 from 4.7% a year earlier. "We expect the economy to continue facing headwinds from spillovers of the war in Ukraine in the near term," he said. Tanzania's economy relies on among others, tourism, mining and agriculture. Reporting by George Obulutsa; Editing by James Macharia ChegeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ 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.

☆ Genetic study details complex ancestry of East Africa's Swahili people
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Radu Sigheti/File PhotoMarch 29 (Reuters) - A study of centuries-old DNA has deciphered the complex ancestry of coastal East Africa's Swahili people, revealing how a cosmopolitan and prosperous medieval civilization arose thanks in large part to women from Africa and men arriving from Persia. After around 1500 AD, the bulk of the Asian genetic contribution shifted to Arabian sources, the study showed. "However, in this case, because Bantu populations in East Africa often have more matrilineal tendencies, African women likely had more autonomy in choosing their partners for building a family. It may be, the researchers said, that the African women and their communities chose to form families with Persian princes or traders, reinforcing trade networks of African and Persian merchants. The evidence of Indian ancestry adds a surprising new layer to the history of the East African coast, Brielle added.

☆ Tanzania detects its first-ever cases of the highly fatal Marburg viral disease
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

DAR ES SALAAM, March 22 (Reuters) - Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg, a high-fatality viral hemorrhagic fever with symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. "The efforts by Tanzania's health authorities to establish the cause of the disease is a clear indication of the determination to effectively respond to the outbreak," said Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa. With a fatality rate of as high as 88%, Marburg is from the same virus family responsible for Ebola and is transmitted to people from fruit bats. Symptoms include high fever, severe headache and malaise which typically develop within seven days of infection, according to the WHO. Equatorial Guinea is also battling its first-ever outbreak of Marburg that was confirmed in February.

☆ 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.

☆ Pilot whose plane crashed into a lake in Tanzania desperately tried to get out of the cockpit before he died, witness says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Tanzanian passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday, killing 19 people on board. Majaliwa Jackson, the fisherman, was among the first people at the site of the Precision Air plane crash in Tanzania's Lake Victoria on Sunday. "He directed me to break the window screen," Jackson told the BBC. "He pointed out the cockpit emergency door to me," Jackson told the BBC. The plane took off from Tanzania's commercial capital of Dar es Salaam on Sunday morning and was supposed to land in Bukoba when it instead plunged into Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake.

☆ Passenger plane crashes into Africa's largest lake after it tried to land in stormy conditions, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Tanzanian passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday due to stormy conditions. The flight was carrying 43 people, of whom 26 were rescued and taken to hospital, a local official said. The Precision Air flight was carrying 43 people, of whom 26 were rescued and taken to hospital, a local official told the BBC. The plane, which took off from Dar es Salaam, crashed into Lake Victoria due to storms and heavy rains, its state broadcaster said. Rescue workers and local fishermen are searching for survivors, according to the BBC, and emergency workers are trying to use ropes to pull the plane out of Africa's largest lake.

☆ 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.

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