Zanzibar. The hospital used to be a place of prolonged waits and anxiety for Juma Hamisi, a 51-year-old resident of Welezo, Zanzibar, an island with an estimated population of over 1.8 million. But ...

But the Zanzibaris living in Mogadishu say that after eight years there, they are still struggling to survive. Unable to find somewhere decent to live, those families remaining in the capital made a ...

Scores of refugees from the troubled Zanzibar islands are seeking safety in Kenya despite an amnesty offer from the Tanzanian government, a UN official said yesterday.

On the dazzling white sands of a Zanzibar beach, a team of footballers is ecstatic, despite losing 5-3. The Muamko Recovery Team are all former heroin addicts and this was their first match in years. ...

Lessons to prevent Zanzibaris from drowning Lessons to prevent Zanzibaris from drowning Despite being surrounded by water, many people in Zanzibar do not know how to swim.

Zanzibaris frequently complain that too much of its wealth -- chiefly from tourism and clove production -- is spent developing the poorer mainland.

The minority community in South Africa's Durban fighting locals over a housing development project.

Almost half a million Zanzibar residents have registered to cast their ballots in the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island's upcoming general elections.

In the streets of Unguja, ordinary Zanzibaris interviewed by the Sunday Citizen said they hoped the incoming government would create jobs and lift them out of poverty.

Analysis - AS Zanzibar gets closer to marking half a century since the January 12, 1964 revolution, there is an emerging thought that the Zanzibaris should start celebrating Independence Day which ...