Barefoot College trains Zanzibar women as solar technicians, lighting homes, improving health, and creating local jobs in off-grid communities.

When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania — The women wade with baskets near the beaches, their colorful dresses a magnet for tourist cameras. Sunscreen worn by the holidaymakers may even contain the product the women are ...

Two Zanzibari women, wearing the traditional Nikab are seen in the outskirts of Zanzibar's Stone Town in a file photo. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti By Kizito Makoye ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters ...

Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics.

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 ...

British women were volunteering at a primary school on the Tanzanian island The pair were volunteer teaching at a primary school affiliated with the Anglican Church Zanzibar has experienced a bout of ...

ZANZIBAR: THE Sea Cliff November Golf Challenge delivered an action-packed weekend at the Mangapwani course in Zanzibar, ...

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - - Natasha Ali was devastated when she realized the man accused of snatching her 14-year-old daughter off a street in Zanzibar and raping her had been ...