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Tanzania's head coach Adel Amrouche waits for the start of the African Cup of Nations Group F soccer match between Morocco and Tanzania at the Laurent Pokou stadium in San Pedro, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Tanzania replaces head coach after just one game at Africa Cup of Nations

Associated Press

Gautam Dongre, of the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Organizations, sits for a portrait with his daughter, Sumedha, 13, at their residence in Nagpur, India, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. Dongre recalls how his newborn son, Girish, cried constantly from stomach and leg pain. Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong and didn’t diagnose him with sickle cell for 2 1/2 years. When Sumedha was born, he and his wife had her tested immediately and learned she had the disease too. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Promising new gene therapies for sickle cell are out of reach in countries where they’re needed most

By Laura Ungar - Associated Press

The Dar es Salaam Port can be seen with the St. Joseph's cathedral in the foreground, on May 22, 2006. Tanzania's government signed a controversial port management deal with Dubai-based DP World that had fueled protests in the African country in the past months and led to arrests of dozens of critics. The deal was signed on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, in the presence of Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who has recently been accused of cracking down on critics such as her predecessor, the late John Magufuli. (AP Photo/Khalfan Said, File)

Tanzania signs a controversial port management deal with Dubai-based company despite protests

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

An Egyptian fruit bat hangs upside down in its cage, in Winsted, Conn, July 29, 2003. The World Health Organization said Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

Twin Marburg virus outbreaks in Africa have global community on guard against further spread

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A child receives a polio vaccine, during the Malawi Polio Vaccination Campaign Launch in Lilongwe Malawi, Sunday March 20, 2022. A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)

9 million children to be vaccinated against polio in Africa

Associated Press

Tanzania’s new president on two-day state visit to Kenya

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 16, 2021, file photo, Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania. Tanzania's new president appears to be taking a new, scientific approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Tuesday April 6, 2021, she will form a technical committee to advise her about the scope of COVID-19 infections in the country and how to respond to the pandemic. (AP Photo/File)

Tanzania’s new president changes policy on COVID-19, media

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Tanzania: 45 people died stampede to see ex-president’s body

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 16, 2021, file photo, Tanzania's then-Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania. Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in Friday, March 19, 2021, as Tanzania's president, making history as the country's first woman in the position following the death of her predecessor John Magufuli. (AP Photo, File)

Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania’s first woman president

By Khaled Abubakar and Tom Odula - Associated Press

A man reads a copy of the Daily Nation morning newspaper reporting the death of neighboring Tanzania's President John Magufuli on a street in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, March 18, 2021. Magufuli, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic whose populist rule often cast his country in a harsh international spotlight, died Wednesday aged 61 of heart failure, it was announced by Vice President Samia Suluhu. Headline in Swahili reads &quot;Goodbye Magufuli.&quot; (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Death of Tanzania’s Magufuli draws sorrow but ire from some

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2020 file photo, Tanzania's President John Magufuli speaks at the national congress of his ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party in Dodoma, Tanzania. Opposition politicians on Wednesday March 10 2021, are raising questions about the health of Tanzania's COVID-19-denying president John Magufuli, as he has not been seen in public for more than a week and there has been no responce to questions from The Associated Press about Magufuli’s health and whereabouts. (AP Photo, File)

Tanzania’s populist President John Magufuli has died at 61

By TOM ODULA and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2020 file photo, Tanzania's President John Magufuli speaks at the national congress of his ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party in Dodoma, Tanzania. Opposition politicians on Wednesday March 10 2021, are raising questions about the health of Tanzania's COVID-19-denying president John Magufuli, as he has not been seen in public for more than a week and there has been no responce to questions from The Associated Press about Magufuli’s health and whereabouts. (AP Photo, File)

Vice President urges calm as Tanzania’s leader still unseen

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Tanzanian PM rejects claims COVID-denying leader is unwell

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday. Oct. 28, 2020 file photo, Tanzania's President John Magufuli stands in line to cast his vote in the presidential election at Chamwino in Dodoma, Tanzania. Opposition politicians in March 2021 are raising questions about the health of Tanzania's COVID-19-denying president John Magufuli, as he has not been seen in public for more than a week and there has been no responce to questions from The Associated Press about Magufuli’s health and whereabouts. (AP Photo, File)

Politicians ask about health of Tanzania’s populist leader

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

US urges Tanzania to embrace COVID-19 vaccines, share data

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Tanzania’s president admits country has COVID-19 problem

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Tanzania’s COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb

Associated Press

Tanzania says no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines

Associated Press

Tanzanian president President John Magufuli waves to Tanzanians as he arrives for his swearing in ceremony in Dodoma, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. (AP Photo)

Tanzania’s leader denies COVID-19, and countrymen push back.

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Report alleges Burundian refugees were disappeared, tortured

By CARA ANNA and ELOGE WILLY KANEZA - Associated Press