For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) The cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika never knew what was coming. How could they? A star from dozens of lightyears away was to blame for what would soon happen.

Travelling overland more than 600 miles from Dar es Salaam to Lake Tanganyika, the expedition ... into a region’s oral memory”. Her bid to map her route on to the earlier one falters, however ...

With its vivid turquoise, green and blue waters, it’s no surprise Lake Salda is often promoted as the “Maldives of Turkey.” Extraordinary to look at, peaceful and surrounded by an abundance ...

Many of their soldiers are now based in Uvira, which has a population of more than 300,000. It is located on the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika and is now on high alert as M23 rebels are marching ...

Some 2.5 million years ago, viruses in Lake Tanganyika experienced an unexplained explosion in diversity. A new study analyzing iron-60 found in the lakebed suggests that the explosion of a ...

The International School of Tanganyika (IST) was founded in 1963 and is located in Tanzania's economic capital, Dar es Salaam. The school's name reflects Tanzanian history. Tanzania's mainland ...

Witnesses reported Tuesday the presence of M23 fighters about 75 kilometres north of Uvira, a town on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika, which faces Burundi's economic capital, Bujumbura.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dawn hadn’t yet broken over the minarets and blue-glass towers of downtown Dar es Salaam. Nor had the ...

More than two million years ago, something unusual happened to the viruses that infect fish in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. The different types of viruses diversified rapidly indicating heightened ...

Dar es Salaam, 26 February 2025 The governments of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Zambia have launched a five-year project to assess and address transboundary threats to the ...