Marriott International has announced the signing of an agreement with Pennyroyal Gibraltar to debut The Ritz-Carlton brand in the exotic Zanzibar Archipelago. Slated to open in 2021, the 90 room ...

Sauti za Busara ("Sounds of Wisdom" in Swahili) takes place in Stone Town, capital city of Zanzibar, an island off Tanzania’s east coast. This was the 18th edition of one of Africa’s best music ...

Seif Sharif Hamad, 77, had been undergoing treatment for COVID-19 in a Dar-es-Salaam hospital when he died. Hamad's ACT-Wazalendo party announced in January that he had been hospitalised with COVID-19 ...

Marriott International is planning to debut the Ritz-Carlton brand in Zanzibar in 2021, the company announced. The 90-room all-suite and villa resort will be located within a 45-minute drive of ...

Catalysing economic growth in the Indian Ocean archipelago will require pivoting away from the status quo with decisive political leadership. The question is, which of the two will triumph in the end?

As “year end fatigue” creeps up on most people, media personality Moshe Ndiki and his besties have taken time out to live their best lives in Zanzibar. Coining the hashtag “DeMoMacation”, Moshe and ...

THE ISLAND of Zanzibar has more than 4m coconut trees, and each one has an owner, says Viliai Farahani, a local chief known as a “sheha”. It is his responsibility to remember who owns every tree in ...

World Mobile's balloon-driven hybrid mobile network solution. Image sourced from CityAM. World Mobile, a London, UK-based mobile network provider, is launching a unique hybrid mobile network supported ...

As tourism revives in Zanzibar, the island offers its visitors an almost private experience for less money than you'd imagine. Mohamed climbs up the boat, pops open his Kilimanjaro beer and moves us ...

Half of the 6,000 remaining Zanzibar red colobus monkeys, a species endemic to the island, are found in Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park, where getting hit by a vehicle is a leading cause of their ...

Mr. Seif Sharif Hamad, popularly known as Maalim Seif was born at Nyali, Mtambwe in Wete, Pemba (Zanzibar's sister island) on October 22, 1943. After completing his primary education in 1957 in Pemba, ...

The Swedish Academy awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday to Abdulrazak Gurnah, a writer who grew up in Zanzibar before arriving in England as a refugee in the late 1960s, "for his ...