Tanzanian officials speak with survivors of an incident where more than forty people suffocated to death in a truck container near Chitego Forest, about 80 miles east of the capital Dodoma, in Tanzania. Tanzania lies on a smuggling route Africans use to travel to South Africa, where there are more economic opportunities. (Associated Press)
Tanzanian officials speak with survivors of an incident where more than forty people suffocated to death in a truck container near Chitego Forest, about 80 miles east of the capital Dodoma, in Tanzania. Tanzania lies on a smuggling route Africans use to travel to South Africa, where there are more economic opportunities. (Associated Press)
For Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, money to advance Africa's agriculture is essential for his and many other African nations. "If we can succeed, we will lift millions and millions of people out of poverty very quickly," he says. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
For Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, money to advance Africa's agriculture is essential for his and many other African nations. "If we can succeed, we will lift millions and millions of people out of poverty very quickly," he says. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Classes for students at Gerezani Secondary School, and at other secondary schools in Tanzania, are taught only in English. Some students struggle with the language since it is spoken in relatively few homes, but English remains an official language, along with Kiswahili, one of 120 local languages. (Anna Patton/Special to The Washington Times)
The Matilda's horned viper, discovered in southwestern Tanzania about two years ago, is the world's newest snake species. It's named for the daughter of one of its discoverers, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania. (Associated Press)
Women mourn the dead in Zanzibar, Tanzania, on Sunday, Sept 11, 2011, after the ferry M.V. Spice Islanders sank early Saturday near the tourist destination of Zanzibar. (AP Photo/Ali Sultan)
Tanzanian police carry a body from the sea in Zanzibar, Tanzania, Saturday, Sept 10, 2011. An overcrowded ship sank in deep sea off mainland Tanzania on Saturday with about 600 people onboard, and about 370 people are believed missing or dead. (AP Photo/Sultan Ali)
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (left) was fatally shot by a Somali soldier at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu. After he planned and carried out the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, Mohammed was on the run for years and at the top of the FBI's most wanted list.
