Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics. Local women who spend their days wading in the ocean fear being left behind as ...

Around half of Zanzibar’s population of 2 million people live unconnected from the electricity grid. But one program is training local women as solar power technicians to help light up Tanzania's semi ...

Women attending the Barefoot College in Zanzibar are learning solar power engineering. Women attending the Barefoot College in Zanzibar are learning solar power engineering, bucking a tradition of ...

2003-09-27T20:59:36-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/BookTV_default-image.jpgJournalist Aidan Hartley talked about his book, The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of ...

Earl and Craig are back with the BRCK team as they bring WiFi to several small islands. In this episode, Earl and Craig are back with the BRCK team as they bring WiFi to several small, remote Islands ...

As the east African island of Zanzibar experiences a growth in both, population and number of tourists, its fish stocks are in serious decline. Fishing communities are being encouraged to diversify by ...

A ferry carrying at least 250 people has sunk off the coast of Tanzania near the island of Zanzibar. Rescuers have been at the scene and many people are still missing. Back in September more than 200 ...

Swimming with dolphins is a major tourist attraction for the village of Kizimkazi in Zanzibar. So NGO Impact Africa is trying to ensure that tourism remains sustainable and that the dolphins are ...

IITM Zanzibar campus is the first international campus by IIT Madras and also the first by any of the IITs in India. In an interview with NDTV, Preeti Aghalayam, Dean of School of Engineering and ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did not have a house ...