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Joshua Loitu Mollel. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
December 9, 2025, 9:03 am
Family of Tanzanian slain on Oct. 7 said to sue Israel for posting video of murder
Joshua Loitu Mollel’s relatives reportedly seeking $84,000, claiming Foreign Ministry account shared video in December 2023 before they saw it and without their permission
By ToI Staff
Illustrative - In this photo taken in January 2015, an African elephant crosses a road made for Safari vehicles as tourists take photos in Tarangire National Park on the outskirts of Arusha, northern Tanzania. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
January 5, 2025, 12:13 pm
Israeli woman killed, five family members injured in jeep accident in Tanzania
Insurance company says it flew Israeli doctor to East African country to help with medical treatment; Foreign Ministry working with local authorities to assist with arrangements
By ToI Staff
Joshua Loitu Mollel (Courtesy)
December 14, 2023, 11:37 pm
Joshua Mollel, 21: Tanzanian intern hoped to open agribusiness
Murdered in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7 and his body taken captive and returned to Israel in November 2025
By ToI Staff
A police office directs traffic on the streets in Accra, Ghana, December 10, 2016. (AP/ Sunday Alamba/ File)
November 7, 2021, 10:26 pm
Iranian plot to attack Israelis, Jews said foiled in Africa
Five arrested in Ghana, Senegal and Tanzania on suspicion of planning attacks against tourists or businesspeople, after being trained in Lebanon, Channel 12 news reports
By ToI Staff
Abulrazak Gurnah in 2009 (Wikimedia commons CC by 2.0)
October 7, 2021, 6:06 pm
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
UK-based writer is hailed for his ‘uncompromising writings on the ‘effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee’; is only 6th Africa-born writer to win the award
By david keyton and Jill Lawless
In this Oct. 23, 2015 file photo, President John Magufu gestures during an election rally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (AP Photo/Khalfan Said, File)
March 18, 2021, 10:45 am
COVID rumors swirl after Tanzania’s populist president dies at 61
Officials say John Magufuli died of heart condition but opposition says he succumbed to COVID-19 after publicly scoffing at virus and falsely claiming vaccine was dangerous
By AFP
In this photo taken Monday, May 18, 2020, people use a hand-washing station installed for members of the public entering a market in Dodoma, Tanzania. (AP Photo)
May 22, 2020, 4:28 pm
Tanzania says virus defeated through prayer, but fears grow
Country has not reported a new case in three weeks, but critics have been arrested, top health officials fired and citizens discouraged from going to hospitals
By TOM ODULA
Illustrative: Kabula Nkarango Masanja waits during a prosthetic limb fitting, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Kabula and four other children from Tanzania with the hereditary condition of albinism are in the U.S. to receive free surgery and prostheses at the hospital. The children were attacked and dismembered in the belief that their body parts will bring wealth. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
January 31, 2019, 6:10 am
UN condemns ritual killings of Tanzanian albino children for body parts
Local media reports that at least 10 children aged between 2 and 10 years old have been found dead this month
By AFP
Men carry a coffin for one of the victims of the MV Nyerere passenger ferry on Ukara Island, Tanzania September 22, 2018. (AP Photo)
September 23, 2018, 7:58 am
Tanzania death toll raised to 209 as survivor found in capsized ferry
Man shut himself in engine room air pocket as boat overturned; officials say total number of dead may never be known
By TOM ODULA
Israelis celebrating on Independence Day in Jerusalem on April 23, 2015. ( Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2017, 5:41 pm
Israel is world’s 11th-happiest country, but…
Separate poll finds that about one-third of Israeli Jews would move abroad given the opportunity; Jewish state places above US (14th), Germany (16th) and UK (19th)
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, October 09, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)
October 26, 2016, 4:34 pm
Despite defeat, Netanyahu hails progress for Israel at UNESCO
Prime minister’s statement notes that fewer countries supported resolution ignoring Jewish ties to Jerusalem than in previous years, more abstained
By ToI Staff
Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold (left) meets with the president of Chad, Idriss Déby (right), in the presidential palace in the city of Fada, in the heart of the Sahara desert, July 14, 2016. (Courtesy Foreign Ministry)
July 22, 2016, 10:42 am
As Israel pivots to Africa, top diplomat meets Chad president
Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold travels to Fada, in heart of Saharan desert, to deepen ties with another Muslim-majority African nation
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with leaders from Africa, in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 5, 2016, 12:36 am
In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel
Netanyahu hails ‘milestone’ summit with East African leaders in Uganda
By ToI Staff
The Save a Child‘s Heart team on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro on September 3, 2015. (courtesy Randi Weiss/SACH)
September 12, 2015, 6:32 am
Little miracles on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro
How a personal challenge to climb Africa’s highest peak turned into a group effort to save a little girl suffering from a life-threatening heart condition
By Melanie Lidman
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (AP Photo)
February 14, 2015, 11:24 pm
American: Bin Laden asked me to use plane as weapon in ’95
Suspected al-Qaeda operative claims he was solicited to ram into Egyptian president’s aircraft with private jet
By Larry Neumeister
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