* Ada Estate, luxury residential suburb of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

* 1998 – The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

This stretch of coast in Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam serves as a public waste dump.

South-African agents kept an ear on the important ANC bases in Lusaka and Dar es Salaam watched the war in Mozambique, in which SA played an active role.

Dar es Salaam ( Dār as-Salām ), formerly Mzizima, is the largest city in Tanzania.

Dar es Salaam is an administrative province within Tanzania, and consists of three local government areas or administrative districts: Kinondoni to the north, Ilala in the centre of the region, and Temeke to the south.

The Dar es Salaam Region had a population of 2, 497, 940 as of the official 2002 census.

Though Dar es Salaam lost its official status as capital city to Dodoma in 1974 ( a move which was not complete until 1996 ), it remains the centre of the permanent central government bureaucracy and continues to serve as the capital for the surrounding Dar es Salaam Region.

In 1865 or 1866 Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar began building a new city very close to Mzizima and named it Dar es Salaam.

Dar es Salaam fell into decline after Majid's death in 1870, but was revived in 1887, when the German East Africa Company established a station there.

Dar es Salaam was retained as the territory's administrative and commercial centre.

After World War II, Dar es Salaam experienced a period of rapid growth.

The relocation process has not yet been completed, and Dar es Salaam remains Tanzania's primary city.

Dar es Salaam is located at 6 ° 48 ' South, 39 ° 17 ' East (− 6. 8000, 39. 2833 ).

Administratively, Dar es Salaam is broken into three districts: Ilala, Kinondoni, and Temeke.

The waterfront of Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam features a tropical wet and dry climate, with two different rainy seasons.

Dar es Salaam is the largest city in Tanzania with 3-4 million people.

While hip hop in Dar es Salaam is a clear reflection of Tanzanian localized struggle and culture, it also engages in and compromises with aspects of Western culture.

Dar es Salaam, a city projected to have over 5 million inhabitants within the next decade, continues to be the one city in Tanzania to which villagers flock for better opportunities.

Westerners and Asians are also settling in Dar es Salaam, and the surge of foreigners has put pressure on Dar es Salaam officials to implement laws better accommodating the growing diverse population of Dar es Salaam and its suburbs.

According to the Ethiopian Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, 1, 454 tonnes of fish are landed each year at Bahir Dar, which the department estimates is 15 % of its sustainable amount.

The small number of ships may be attributed to Tanzania's few exports, the relative insufficiency of its coast guard and naval forces, and Tanzania's single major port facility in Dar es Salaam.

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Dar al -' Ahd ( Arabic: دار &# 32 ; العهد " house of truce " or Dar al-Sulh " house of treaty ") was invented to describe the Ottoman Empire's relationship with its Christian tributary states.

In its own right, Dar es Salaam became the showcase city of all of tropical Africa.

This caused extensive destruction, including the burning of Tripoli's famous library, Dar al-Ilm ( House of Knowledge ), with its thousands of volumes.

On August 20, 1998, the factory was destroyed in cruise missile strikes launched by the United States military allegedly retaliation for the August 7 truck bomb attacks on its embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya ( see 1998 U. S. embassy bombings ).

The town is 450 kilometers south of Dar es Salaam and 105 kilometers north of Mtwara, the southernmost coastal town in Tanzania, and gives its name to the surrounding Lindi Region, one of the most sparsely populated areas of the country.

Under the leadership of Eduardo Mondlane, elected president of the newly formed Mozambican Liberation Front, FRELIMO settled its headquarters in 1963 in Dar es Salaam.

One finds there masonries and mosques of the 17th century ; Ketchaoua mosque ( built in 1794 by the Dey Baba Hassan ) flanked of two minarets, mosque el Djedid ( 1660, at the time of Turkish regency ) with its large finished ovoid cupola points some and its four coupolettes, mosque El Kébir ( oldest of the mosques, it was built by Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin and rebuilt later in 1794 ), mosque Ali Betchnin ( Raïs, 1623 ), Dar Aziza, palate of Jénina.

The latter ( Dar al-Magana ) remains until today and its mechanism has been reconstructed.

Laszlo J. Bonis served as its president ( 1967-1986 ), and Dar Williams worked as a stage manager for the company.

As the strategic partner, SAA planned to create its East African hub in Dar es Salaam to form a “ Golden Triangle ” between Southern, Eastern and Western Africa.

On 31 January 2005, Air Tanzania suspended one of its few regional services: Dar es Salaam to Nairobi, following intense competition from Kenya Airways on the route.

On 1 October 2007, the revamped Air Tanzania made its inaugural flight on the Dar es Salaam to Mwanza via Kilimanjaro route.

In the wake of the 1983 United States Embassy bombing in Beirut and the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, its focus has shifted from aesthetics to security.

Following the overthrow of Abdallahi at Omdurman in 1899 by the Anglo-Egyptian forces, the new Anglo-Egyptian government recognized Ali Dinar as the sultan of Darfur and largely left the Dar to its own affairs except for a nominal annual tribute.

Between independence and 1996, the main coastal city of Dar es Salaam served as the country's political capital.

Gas is drawn into the commercial capital, Dar Es Salaam and exported to various markets overseas.

Dar es Salaam is the largest city and is the commercial capital ; Dodoma, located in the centre of Tanzania is the new capital and houses the Union's Parliament.

The eastern coast contains Tanzania's largest city and former capital, Dar es Salaam.

Dar es Salaam is the capital and largest city ; Dodoma, located in the centre of Tanzania, has been designated the new capital, although action to move the capital has stalled.

Tanzania's National Assembly moved there in February 1996, but many government offices remain in the previous national capital, Dar es Salaam, which remains the commercial capital.

Located at, in the centre of the country, the town is west of the former capital at Dar es Salaam and south of Arusha, the headquarters of the East African Community.

A major highway connects Dodoma with the former capital of Dar es Salaam via the Morogoro region in the east.

At the time his father, Richard Gower OBE, was working for the Colonial Service in a position in Dar es Salaam, capital of the then British administered territory of Tanganyika, where Gower spent his early childhood.

* Tanzania: Dodoma was designated the national capital in 1973, but most government offices and embassies are still located in Dar es Salaam.

Its capital, a port, is Ebou Dar, located in the south.

Via the Tanzania Railways Corporation's Link Line and Central Line, Tanga is linked to the African Great Lakes region and the Tanzanian economic capital of Dar es Salaam.

At the outbreak of World War I, the Schutztruppe in German East Africa was organized into 14 field companies with 2, 500 men under arms, with headquarters at the capital Dar es Salaam.

His paternal great-grandmother, wife of Rajab bin Mohammed bin Said el Murgebi was the daughter of Juma bin Mohammed el Nebhani, a member of a respected Muscat ( Oman ) family, and an African woman from the village of Mbwa Maji, a small village south of what would later become the German capital of Dar es Salaam.

The regional capital is Bukoba Town, which is about 1, 500 km from Dar es Salaam by road.