News Topic - Tanzania
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Somali pirates seize tanker carrying oil worth $100m
Somali pirates yesterday seized a Saudi supertanker carrying up to 2m barrels of oil worth around $100m in an audacious attack several hundred miles out to sea. Two Britons are among the 25 crew of the Sirius Star, which was captured 450 miles south-east of the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The US navy, w ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 18, 2008 12:07 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Somali pirates yesterday seized a Saudi supertanker carrying up to 2m barrels of oil worth around $100m in an audacious attack several hundred miles out to sea. Two Britons are among the 25 crew of the Sirius Star, which was captured 450 miles south-east of the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The US navy, w ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 18, 2008 12:07 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Washington Teen Helps Students In TanzaniaA Washington high school student raises money to build schools in Tanzania.
WUSA9.com – Nov 16, 2008 8:57 PM [GMT] – comment?
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Albino Africans live in fear after witch-doctor butchery
Murders of albinos in Tanzania shock the nation as children killed for body parts believed to bring good luck
The Guardian – Nov 16, 2008 12:07 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Murders of albinos in Tanzania shock the nation as children killed for body parts believed to bring good luck
The Guardian – Nov 16, 2008 12:07 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Mothers hacked in albino attacks
Two mothers in Tanzania are injured during attacks by gangs seeking to kidnap their albino children.
BBC News – Nov 14, 2008 6:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
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Two mothers in Tanzania are injured during attacks by gangs seeking to kidnap their albino children.
BBC News – Nov 14, 2008 6:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
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Boeing to test biofuel on Air New Zealand flight
Boeing and Air New Zealand will fly a jumbo jet powered partly by biofuel next month, the two companies announced today. An Air New Zealand jet will leave Auckland on December 3 with a 50-50 mix of jet fuel and oil from jatropha trees, in one of its four engines on a flight designed to show that jat ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 13, 2008 3:59 PM [GMT] – comment?
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Boeing and Air New Zealand will fly a jumbo jet powered partly by biofuel next month, the two companies announced today. An Air New Zealand jet will leave Auckland on December 3 with a 50-50 mix of jet fuel and oil from jatropha trees, in one of its four engines on a flight designed to show that jat ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 13, 2008 3:59 PM [GMT] – comment?
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Man 'tried to sell' albino wife
Police in Tanzania arrest a man who was allegedly planning to sell his albino wife for $3,000.
BBC News – Nov 13, 2008 11:13 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Police in Tanzania arrest a man who was allegedly planning to sell his albino wife for $3,000.
BBC News – Nov 13, 2008 11:13 AM [GMT] – comment?
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BA humbug - or the best way of doing good?
A modern building, the Vijibweni hospital stands out in one of the poorer parts of the Tanzanian capital. Its clean and freshly whitewashed rooms also compare favourably with some of the more basic health facilities in the Temeke district, where in one case mothers and newborn babies are often four ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 11, 2008 12:58 AM [GMT] – comment?
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A modern building, the Vijibweni hospital stands out in one of the poorer parts of the Tanzanian capital. Its clean and freshly whitewashed rooms also compare favourably with some of the more basic health facilities in the Temeke district, where in one case mothers and newborn babies are often four ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 11, 2008 12:58 AM [GMT] – comment?
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US forces staged more than a dozen foreign raids against al-Qaida
The US authorised its special forces to carry out more than a dozen raids in countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, four years ago as part of a stepped-up hunt for al-Qaida, according to a former senior CIA officer. Highly publicised attacks by American forces across the border from Iraq int ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 11, 2008 12:37 AM [GMT] – comment?
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The US authorised its special forces to carry out more than a dozen raids in countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, four years ago as part of a stepped-up hunt for al-Qaida, according to a former senior CIA officer. Highly publicised attacks by American forces across the border from Iraq int ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 11, 2008 12:37 AM [GMT] – comment?
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US authorised special forces to carry out more than a dozen raids in Middle East, Asia and Africa
The US has authorised its special forces to carry out more than a dozen raids in countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa over the last four years in its hunt for al-Qaida.Highly-publicised attacks by US forces across the border from Iraq into Syria last month and from Afghanistan into Pakistan ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 10, 2008 7:07 PM [GMT] – comment?
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The US has authorised its special forces to carry out more than a dozen raids in countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa over the last four years in its hunt for al-Qaida.Highly-publicised attacks by US forces across the border from Iraq into Syria last month and from Afghanistan into Pakistan ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 10, 2008 7:07 PM [GMT] – comment?
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Helio Resource Corp. - SMP Gold Project, Tanzania
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Canada NewsWire – Nov 10, 2008 2:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
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Canada NewsWire – Nov 10, 2008 2:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
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