Tanzania

Samia Suluhu Hassan, right, is sworn in as president of Tanzania at a ceremony at State House in Dar es Salaam. She is the country's first female president. (AP/CP)

The woman who can—and must—get Tanzania’s COVID battle on track

Image of the Week: The East African nation’s first female president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, takes over from a notorious COVID skeptic. His opponents claim he died of the virus.

Photos: Meet the Canadian Navy’s anti-smugglers

Photographer Peter Bregg captures life on a Canadian Navy frigate off the coast of Tanzania

no-image

REVIEW: The magic of saida

Book by M.G. Vassanji

no-image

Funding Planned Parenthood, but not abortion

A few months ago, Conservative MP Brad Trost was boasting that the government had “defunded” Planned Parenthood. But after more than a year of public waffling, the CBC reports that the government is about to approve funding for the group.

A land of constant complaints

Tanzania: land of constant complaints

The country seems well, but corruption is rampant

no-image

What we’re not talking about

The realities of abortion in Tanzania are brutal. Canadian aid groups are confused and concerned. And a Liberal MP says a vote on abortion is inevitable.

no-image

Bringing albino-killers to justice

In two years, 53 albinos have been murdered in Tanzania

no-image

‘It makes us sad. More people will die.’

Though obviously not as interesting as whatever Pierre Poilievre last said, Geoffrey York reports from Africa on Canada’s dramatic, but quiet, withdrawal from the continent.