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Vials of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in Jackson, Miss.

Moderna to build manufacturing plant in Africa

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Moderna announces plans to build a manufacturing plant in Africa, capable of producing up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year. Also, Germany and Denmark repatriate women and children from the Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria that’s held suspected ISIS members. And Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

John Magufuli wears glasses a green shirt and speaks at a podium with a green background

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died at 61

Obituary
Three poll workers wearing white shirts and hats sit at a table together and sort through papers

Tanzania’s internet restrictions during election are ‘despicable,’ digital rights activist says

Elections
President Magufuli stands in front of a podium.

Activists in Tanzania spend the holidays behind bars amid crackdown on free expression

Human rights
A young Tanzanian woman speaks to a male doctor.

Tanzanian president bluntly attacks contraception, saying high birth rates are good for economy

Development
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A baboon stakes out a walkway near the entrance of Tanzania's Udzungwa National Park. With human settlement at the base of the still wild Udzungwa Mountains growing fast, humans and wild animals are coming into ever more frequent contact, creating what on

To prevent the next Ebola, scientists try to catch new viruses before they break out

Environment

With the Ebola outbreak not yet behind us, global health workers are already scrambling to prevent what could be the next big outbreak of an emerging disease caused by a virus that jumped from animals into humans. In Tanzania, an organization is trying a new approach to tracking these new viruses and preventing another pandemic.

Tanzanian Hip-Hop: A Primer

Those beats! One of the biggest musical change that occurs during the period of Tanzanian music covered by “Live From Bongoland” is the introduction of hip-hop. Starting from a small-scale, DIY underground, hip-hop style and music localized, transitioning from English … Read more »

Dansi: A Primer

In our Hip Deep program “Live From Bongoland: The History of Tanzania’s Music Economy,” we trace the evolution of musiki wa dansi, the guitar-based, big-band music that dominated the nation’s clubs and airwaves for well over three decades. Dansi, with … Read more »

Live from Bongoland: The History of Tanzania’s Music Economy

In the ’70s and ’80s, the East African nation of Tanzania was home to one of the continent’s greatest music scenes. But you wouldn’t know from the recorded evidence. Join us for this Hip Deep edition of Afropop Worldwide, as … Read more »

When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists

Environment

Illegal sales of ivory and rhino horn are estimated to be a $2 billion a year industry. And some of that money is going to fund Islamic militant terrorists, according to a Dutch conservation group.

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