The mandate of the United Nations-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha has been extended by a year until the end of 2009 for trials of first instance and by two years until the end of 2010 for appeals....

Arusha residents could soon be picking their way past camera crews and over transmission cables if filming of the new British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) comedy drama “Taking the Flak” goes ahead. The six-part series about a group of BBC correspondents reporting...

Flower farmers in northern Tanzania are set to benefit from a project to improve the transportation of horticultural products to international markets. Supported by the United States agency for international development, the two-year Tanzania Airfrieght Project (TAP) is exploring how to...

The School of St Jude has officially opened its second campus at Usa River near Mount Kilimanjaro. The new premises, which are already half full, complement the original campus at Moshono in Arusha. St Jude is an English-medium sponsorship-supported school catering primarily...

Tanzania is to get a new Moevenpick hotel under an agreement between the proprietor Taninvest Group and the international hotel management company based in Switzerland. Moevenpick already operates one hotel in the east African country, the award-winning Royal Palm Hotel in...

Street children in Arusha and Moshi municipalities can now access free medical treatment and health care thanks to an initiative of organisations working on their behalf, the “Arusha Times” reports. Anna Thor of Mkombozi center for street children told journalists at...

Arusha residents could soon have a street address worthy of any major city thanks to a programme of the municipal council and the Tanzania Communications Regulations Authority, the "Arusha Times" reports. For now the project consists in naming and coding streets...

English footballer David Beckham and rock star Bono of Irish band U2 are to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania to raise money for the United Nations’ children’s charity UNICEF. It is not clear when the six-day climb is to take...