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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Fourteen people were killed and five were missing off Crimea in the Black Sea on Monday after a fire engulfed gas tankers sailing under the flag of Tanzania, authorities said. “There are 11 bodies,” Alexei Kravchenko, spokesman for Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport, told AFP. “Another three people went under water before rescue workers’ eyes.” Those three are most likely dead, he said. The ships, the Kandy and […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippines on Saturday, Sept. 23, condoled with Tanzania following the sinking of an overloaded ferry in Lake Victoria that left more than a hundred people dead. In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs conveyed the country’s sympathies and expressed hope that more survivors would be found. Ambassador to Kenya Norman Garibay told Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano the Philippine Embassy in Nairobi continues to monitor the search and rescue efforts. Garibay said […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — At least 44 people died and an unknown number went missing on Thursday when a ferry capsized in the south of Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, Tanzanian government officials said. “According to reports that President John Magufuli has just received from the authorities in Mwanza, the toll now stands at more than 40 dead,” Gerson Msigwa, the president’s spokesman said on state television, TBC 1. Regional governor John Mongella said late Thursday […]
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AFP) — At least 13 people were killed and 203 injured in northwest Tanzania when a 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit the country Saturday, local authorities told AFP. “The toll has climbed from 11 people dead to 13 and from 192 injured to 203,” said Deodatus Kinawilo, District Commissioner for Bukoba, the town close to the epicentre of the quake. “For now, the situation is calm and under control,” said Kinawilo, who was reached by […]
by Nicolas DELAUNAY DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AFP) — A “Miss and Mister Albino” contest, heavy sentences for ritual murder and concrete graves to ward off tomb raiders were all discussed at a UN summit on albinism concluding in Tanzania on Monday. During the four-day meeting people with albinism and advocates for their rights discussed ways to safeguard and improve the lives of those who suffer discrimination, health problems and even murder as a result […]
