Video shows Steven Weber proposing through the window of a submerged cabin off Tanzania.

The Trump administration has authorized a Florida man to bring back the “skin, skull, teeth and claws” of a lion he hunted in Tanzania, granting the first permit to import a lion from that country since the species gained protection under the US Endangered Species Act.

At least 70 more have reportedly been injured following the incident in Morogoro - and many of them have suffered serious burns.

A plastic bag ban comes into force in Tanzania on Saturday, as Africa leads efforts to stem the tide of plastic blighting the farthest reaches of the globe, and depths of the ocean. Tanzania is banning the importation, production, sale and use of plastic bags, becoming the 34th African country to implement such restrictions, according to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

Residents in Tanzania’s biggest city have been urged to inform on their neighbours and friends ahead of a police operation to hunt down and jail homosexuals.

A man has been rescued from a ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, two days after it overturned with the loss of at least 207 lives. The engineer, named locally as Alphonce Charahani, reportedly survived in an air pocket inside the MV Nyerere ferry, which capsized near Ukara island on its way from Bugorora on Thursday. He is said to be in a serious condition.

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living” – Marcus Tullius Cicero. By Aaron Dabbah.

The 20 were arrested in a hotel where they were receiving training about HIV/Aids schemes.

The head of an animal conservation NGO who had received numerous death threats has been shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Tanzania. Wayne Lotter, 51, was shot on Wednesday evening in the Masaki district of the city of Dar es Salaam. The wildlife conservationist was being driven from the airport to his hotel when his taxi was stopped by another vehicle. Two men, one armed with a gun opened his car door and shot him.

Here's what happened to a professor of genetic epidemiology's 'microbiome' when he lived with the Hadza.

The white beaches of Zanzibar’s coast are home to the octopus hunters, in search of the delicacy. Photographs by Tommy Trenchard and Aurelie Marrier d’Unienville.

​​In the Mara region of northern Tanzania, Abigail Haworth discovers an empowering tribal tradition undergoing a modern revival.

The Tanzanian government has banned the import and sale of sexual lubricants as part of a sustained crackdown on the country's LGBT+ community. "It is true that the government has banned the importation and use of the jelly to curb the spread of HIV," Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu told local media. He said that lubricant encourages homosexuality, which is against the law in the east African country and can be punished by life imprisonment.

A horrific trade in body parts. (June 11, 2016)

Tanzania is the only country in Africa where fishermen widely use homemade bombs to increase their catch. By Jani Actman.