Assailants riding a motorbike on the East African island of Zanzibar threw acid on two 18-year-old British women volunteering at a primary school on the Tanzanian island, leaving them with facial, ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania — When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did not have a house connected ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania(AP) — The women wade with baskets near the beaches, their colorful dresses a magnet for tourist cameras. Sunscreen worn by the holidaymakers may even contain the product the women ...

Two Zanzibari women, wearing the traditional Nikab are seen in the outskirts of Zanzibar's Stone Town in a file photo. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti By Kizito Makoye ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters ...

As ocean temperatures rise, single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar switch from seaweed to sea sponge farming to stay afloat. As a gentle morning breeze blows across the Zanzibar shore, Hindu ...

At about 10 o'clock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar's turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms -- a new lifeline after climate change upended ...

Two young British women were injured in an acid attack carried out by two men on a motorcycle on the east African island of Zanzibar, local police said Thursday. The women, who were attacked in Stone ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - - Natasha Ali was devastated when she realized the man accused of snatching her 14-year-old daughter off a street in Zanzibar and raping her had been ...

British women were volunteering at a primary school on the Tanzanian island The pair were volunteer teaching at a primary school affiliated with the Anglican Church Zanzibar has experienced a bout of ...