IT WAS through one of those ludicrous and occasionally happy accidents of war that I came to Zanzibar. I had missed the southbound flying boat. There was a steamer leaving which I just managed to ...

PEMBA, Tanzania (Reuters) - It's an idyllic sight: farmer Salim Juma yells at his agile sons as they clamber in high trees on Zanzibar's northern island of Pemba, to harvest cloves whose spicy-sweet ...

PEMBA, Tanzania — It’s springtime on this green, hilly island, and the pungent, sweet smell of cloves spices the air. Zaharan Salim’s father, who crossed the turquoise water from Oman to settle here ...

The archipelago of Zanzibar in Tanzania, sometimes known as the Spice Islands, was once the world's largest producer of cloves. It is still an important industry for farmers on the island of Pemba as ...

Zanzibar will soon privatise its clove industry in a bid to revive what was once the Indian Ocean Islands’ main foreign exchange earner, the archipelago’s finance minister said on Thursday. Cloves ...

Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar has banned selling of raw cloves ahead of the harvest season set to start next month. Cloves are a major export crop in Zanzibar, which is one of the ...

International clove prices have trended higher in recent years with sharp seasonal variations: those from Zanzibar hit a high of $5,800 per tonne excluding freight in 2008, according to the Public ...

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