Zanzibar, in the words of one of its political leaders, was “a happy island”—its climate fine, its people content, its crime rate low, and even its clocks willing to jog along a full six ...

"Sunday lunch in Zanzibar. Happy Sunday everyone!" wrote Catherine Zeta-Jones on Instagram, sharing a glimpse at her family's holiday getaway Catherine Zeta-Jones is enjoying the holidays with an ...

Every single person I encountered in Zanzibar was happy. Even if they were explaining to me some hardship they were experiencing, they did so with a smile. Everywhere I went, people greeted me ...

Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar’s Government Hospital on Sept. 5, 1946. At the age of 8, however, his parents sent him to St. Peter’s Church of England school in Mumbai, India.

An opposition presidential candidate in Zanzibar detained as he tried to vote early on Tuesday has been released, after nine people were shot dead by security forces ahead of Wednesday’s ...

Nine people including 8 children are dead and at least 78 others have been hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on an East African island, multiple media outlets are reporting.

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania — Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said Saturday.

Tanzania’s president decreed that Zanzibar was perfectly coronavirus-free. The island has since attracted an oddball stream of COVID-19 deniers, freedom-seekers and opportunists, to the locals ...

AN official said tonight there was no hope for more than a hundred people still missing a day after a ferry sank off the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, with 38 bodies already recovered.

Zanzibar’s mandatory insurance fee, introduced last year, did not seem to affect tourism to the island too badly this past December. The post Zanzibar insurance fee not a concern for South ...

An opposition presidential candidate in Zanzibar detained as he tried to vote early on Tuesday has been released, after nine people were shot dead by security forces ahead of Wednesday's elections ...