For Zanzibar’s semi-autonomous government, seaweed sits at the heart of its “blue economy” agenda — a plan to grow prosperity ...

Zanzibar, Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago, signed an agreement with two companies to build its first large-scale solar power plant at a cost of $140 million. The agreement with Mauritian-based ...

Zanzibar plans to execute a feat of ingenuity as it architects plans for the world’s tallest green tower. Named the Burj Zanzibar, Leander Moons, a Dutch-born architect drafted the idea to construct a ...

Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics.

The president of Zanzibar said on Tuesday that a re-run of the vote for a new leader of the islands, a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania, would go ahead despite calls by the opposition to scrap the ...

ZANZIBAR: TOURISM industry, undeniably the pillar of Zanzibar’s economy, was already severely affected by the global COVID-19 ...

Zanzibar is looking at tourism as the leading foreign revenue source, as the number of foreign tourists visiting the island has been growing in the past years. Zanzibar is looking at tourism as the ...

A sexy beach vacation in Africa is nothing new. But prices in Cape Town have soared, and the once-pristine Kenyan coast has evolved into an African Cancún lined with high-rise hotels for the ...

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Security was tighter than usual around Zanzibar's president, a member of Tanzania's ruling CCM party. Shein's term was extended after the elections were cancelled. Germany's President Joachim Gauck (L ...