As Zanzibar prepares for a rerun of its presidential election on Sunday, Tanzanian authorities are worried the situation could turn fiery on the so-called Spice Islands. Tanzania held nationwide ...

Zanzibar is preparing for a major economic shift. Best known as an East African tourist destination with its spice farms, clear waters and pristine beaches, Zanzibar now hopes to stake its economic ...

There is very little data available on the extent of Zanzibar’s heroin problem, but even the most conservative estimates suggest heroin usage is devastatingly high. Suleiman Mauly, a former addict who ...

The people of Zanzibar go to the polls on March 20 to choose a new president and government for the second time in five months. The previous election was annulled three days after the vote, in what ...

More than half a century has passed since a revolution forced them to leave their homeland in East Africa for the hard, desert landscape of Oman, a country which at that time had only one hospital and ...

The Zanzibar leopard was officially declared extinct 25 years ago, but the classification has been called into question after a wildlife biologist caught the elusive predator on camera. “To find rare ...

A ferry with more than 280 people on board sank off the east African coast of the Zanzibar archipelago today killing at least… A ferry with more than 280 people on board sank off the east African ...

One of the two British teenage victims of an acid attack disembarks from a vehicle at the airport in Zanzibar. (Reuters TV) Assailants on the East African island of Zanzibar threw acid on two British ...

White sandy beaches and turquoise waters–Zanzibar offers paradise-like conditions. It’s no surprise that the beaches of this Tanzanian archipelago are almost too beautiful to be true. TRAVELBOOK knows ...