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With silverfish catch levels decreasing each year, Tanzanian fishing communities are looking for solutions. A factory for fish storage and processing is considered a crucial initiative to avoid waste and improve income.
When Tanzania became an independent state, it was Mwalimu Julius Nyerere who was hailed as its founding father. But without Bibi Titi Mohamed, he would have lacked an important mobilizing force that secured his success.
Kinjeketile Ngwale claimed to be a spirit medium. He defied the German colonialists in Tanganyika, unleashed an uprising and gave the people with ‘sacred water’ which they believed would keep them from harm.
At the height of the independence struggle on the African continent, few names matched up to Julius Kambarage Nyerere. He became the first president of Tangyanika, as Tanzania was called back then, after it achieved independence from Britain in 1961.
Lake Tanganyika, one of the African Great Lakes, has been declared "Threatened Lake of 2017" by a German NGO working with local African partners to improve its sustainability. DW examines the scale of the threat.
