In a bid to improve the living standards of the people, the Zanzibar Housing Corporation (ZHC) is planning to implement the 3,600 affordable homes project in different areas, targeting low and middle ...
AT dawn on the white-sand shores of Jambiani, 45-year-old Saada Juma braces herself against the pull of the tide, wrangling ropes laced with seaweed. Her hands, hardened by decades of labour, move ...
Perhaps you’ve painted a mental picture of the Maldives, but this divine scene is Zanzibar, an enchanting island 35km off Tanzania on Africa’s East Coast. With bombshell beaches, a cosmopolitan ...
Each day at about 10am, women in hijab and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar's turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms – a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work ...
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 their ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Around half of Zanzibar’s population of 2 ...
Rising ocean temperatures have killed seaweed, depleted fish stocks and affected livelihoods in Tanzania's picturesque Zanzibar. Now sponge farming is helping turn the tide in one village, where women ...
The Zanzibar sponge cooperative has offered a new and lucrative source of income for locals Rising ocean temperatures and overfishing had undermined seaweed farming Sponges also help restore marine ...
Members of Zanzibar’s Sponge Farmers’ Cooperative, a women-led organisation, tend to their farm off the coast of Jambiani on October 25, 2025. MARCO LONGARI / AFP Around 10 in the morning each day, ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades ...
The popular Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar is further expanding its already extensive tourism footprint to outlying islands like Pemba without considering the environment, a new op-ed argues. Major ...
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