| January 11, 2007 | - U.S. air strikes in Somalia killed seven people. Somali officials believed the dead included Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, reputed mastermind of the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, but U.S. officials said they were still chasing him.
| Source 1:
Yahoo! News
Source 2:
CBS News
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| May 23, 2005 | - and a new kind of monkey was discovered in Tanzania. It communicates in honking barks rather than in whoop-gobbles.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| May 16, 2005 | - People in Zanzibar were living in fear of a sexually rapacious, sodomy-prone goblin named Popo Bawa.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 16, 2004 | -
Tanzania banned the importation of used underwear.
| Source: New York Times
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| July 4, 2003 | -
Tanzania was cracking down on the human skin trade.
| Source: BBC
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| November 20, 2001 | - Seven thousand virgins in Tanzania got together and promised not to have sex until marriage.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Black rhinos were dying under mysterious circumstances in Tanzania.
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| November 7, 2000 | -
Police in Zanzibar, Tanzania, opened fire on unarmed demonstrators who were protesting rigged elections.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Six men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were arrested for cannibalism; the men dug up graves, ate human flesh, and made shoes out of human skin.
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