IT WAS through one of those ludicrous and occasionally happy accidents of war that I came to Zanzibar. I had missed the southbound flying boat. There was a steamer leaving which I just managed to ...

ZANZIBAR: ZANZIBAR President, Dr Hussein Mwinyi has said the government has made a strategic decision to hand over official ...

PEMBA, Tanzania (Reuters) - It's an idyllic sight: farmer Salim Juma yells at his agile sons as they clamber in high trees on Zanzibar's northern island of Pemba, to harvest cloves whose spicy-sweet ...

PEMBA, Tanzania — It’s springtime on this green, hilly island, and the pungent, sweet smell of cloves spices the air. Zaharan Salim’s father, who crossed the turquoise water from Oman to settle here ...

Dar Es Salaam — In an effort to revive the islands' once famed clove industry, the Zanzibar government decided to privatize clove trade in 2007, which was until then the monopoly of a state-run ...

Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar has banned selling of raw cloves ahead of the harvest season set to start next month. Cloves are a major export crop in Zanzibar, which is one of the ...

“Look out!” chef Wollman pulls me out of the way as a cart, laden with watermelon, careens down the narrow stone lane. The sun burns high in the sky; Hindi music and Taarab tunes stream from shop ...

Reporting from Zanzibar — “Here. What do you think this is?” Genes Salema, our guide for the day, crushed a handful of green leaves in his hands and held them out to us. We leaned down and inhaled.