Martti Ahtisaari, 71, was a primary school teacher who joined Finland’s Foreign Ministry in 1965. He spent 20 years abroad, first as ambassador to Tanzania and then to the United Nations in New York.

The Pentagon on Friday denied military prosecutors’ request to seek the death penalty in the trial of a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania, according to military documents.

A stampede at an overcrowded dance hall in central Tanzania killed 20 children and left 50 others injured as they celebrated an important Muslim festival, police said Thursday.

Officials say a stampede in an overcrowded dance hall has left at least 20 children dead in central Tanzania.

Kenya and Tanzania marked the 10th anniversary Thursday of deadly bombings at the countries’ U.S. embassies, as police conducted a manhunt for the al-Qaida suspect believed to have masterminded the attacks.

More than a thousand prominent African-American leaders, executives, entertainers and activists will head to Tanzania for a summit with their African counterparts to help raise living standards on the world’s poorest continent.Organizers said Monday...

A Tanzanian official says he doesn’t expect any trouble during the Olympic torch run in the East African nation.The torch is expected to arrive in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from Argentina on Saturday evening.Secretary-General Filbert Bayi of the Tanzania...

The World Health Organization predicted on Tuesday a devastating parasitic infection known as elephantiasis could be eliminated by 2015.Mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis, which inflames the legs, arms, breasts and genitals, could be the second disease...

The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania.The Pentagon said Monday that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani could receive the death penalty if convicted by a military tribunal at...

A government official says 75 miners are missing and believed to have died in mines following heavy rains in northeastern Tanzania.Manyara Regional Commissioner Henry Shekifu says mine owners reported the 75 men went missing Friday as heavy rains pounded...