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The country lacks a clear dominant ethnic majority: the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, the Sukuma people, comprises about 16 percent of the country's total population, followed by the Wanyakyusa and the Chagga. Unlike its neighbouring countries, Tanzania has not experienced large-scale ethnic conflicts, a fact attributed to the unifying ...
In June 1980, the guerrilla group, Organization of People in Arms, recruited citizens in the region. By December of that year, ten disappearances through guerilla force were reported. Throughout the decade, guerilla violence persisted against the Tz’utujil people as the guerilla army murdered hundreds.
The Chagga ( Wachagga, in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic group from Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. They are the third-largest ethnic group in Tanzania. [2] They historically lived in sovereign Chagga states on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro [3] [4] in both Kilimanjaro Region and eastern Arusha Region . Being one of the most influential and ...
Mwananchi Communications Ltd is a company based in Tanzania. [1] Mwananchi Communications Ltd, engages in the print media and digital media, and is the publisher of Tanzania's leading daily newspaper, Mwananchi (in Swahili ), and others such as The Citizen, Sunday Citizen, Mwananchi Jumapili, Mwananchi Scoop and Mwanaspoti .
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
Zanzibar is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.
Chama cha Ukombozi wa Umma (CHAUMMA) is a political party in Tanzania. [1] Hashim Spunda Rungwe, chairman of CHAUMMA since 2014, [2] was the first politician in the party's history to run for president when he stood in the 2015 Tanzanian general election. [3] Many CHAUMMA members were previously aligned with NCCR-Mageuzi, [4] including Rungwe ...
Early life Childhood: 1922–1934 Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on 13 April 1922 in Mwitongo, an area of the village of Butiama in Tanganyika's Mara Region. [a] He was one of 25 surviving children of Nyerere Burito, the chief of the Zanaki people. Burito had been born in 1860 and given the name "Nyerere" (" caterpillar " in Zanaki) after a plague of worm caterpillars infested the local ...