The weekend power cuts that have plagued Arusha in recent months are to continue indefinitely, Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) has told the “Arusha Times”. The outages are the result of work being carried out by the national electricity provider to...

The annual Karibu travel and tourism fair takes place in Arusha from 5-8 June. Jointly organised by the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators, the Tanzania tourist board and the ministry of natural resources and tourism, the fair is reputedly one of...

Sunflag Tanziania, east Africa’s largest textile manufacturer, has downscaled operations at its Unga Limited plant in southern Arusha pending eventual closure, local newspaper “The Arusha Times” reports. Currently only around 100 people are working at the factory compared with the former 1,500....

At least 70 mineworkers are thought to have died at Mererani near Arusha in northern Tanzania after heavy rains flooded the mine where they were working. The accident occurred on 29 March but the full scale of the disaster only become...

The 33rd annual congress of the African Travel Association (ATA) will take place in Arusha from 19-23 May 2008. Over 500 representatives of the tourism and business communities will explore ways to develop the tourist and travel sectors in Africa and...