ARIN formerly covered Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe until AfriNIC was formed.

This tradition was part of the eastern stream of Bantu expansion ( sometimes called Kwale ) which originated west of the Great Lakes, spreading to the coastal regions of southeastern Kenya and north eastern Tanzania, and then southwards to Mozambique, south eastern Zimbabwe and Natal.

Similar forms of African socialism were introduced inter alia in Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah (" Consciencism ") and Tanzania by Julius Nyerere (" Ujamaa "), while in Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko, a much less " benevolent " ruler than Kaunda or Nyerere, was at a loss until he hit on the ideal ideology – ' Mobutuism '.

It also claims that the most expertly executed operation of the KP Branch was the theft of 32, 400 rounds of 81 mm mortar ammunition purchased from Tanzania destined for the Sri Lanka Army.

Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at the FLK Bed I site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania ( specimen OH 5 ).

The name Tanzania derives from the names of the two states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, that united in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which later the same year was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.

Tanzania was also aligned with China, which from 1970 to 1975 financed and helped to build the TAZARA Railway from Dar es Salaam to Zambia.

The HIV / AIDS epidemic is a significant problem in Tanzania ; in 2009, the prevalence was estimated to be 5. 6 % of the adult population.

The style was started by Mr. Edward Saidi Tingatinga born in South Tanzania.

Tanzania now has a national team, which used to be part of the East Africa team, but was separated.

The East African nation of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar.

The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 – 39, and in 1974 – 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.

What is referred to here, therefore, is the history of the region that was to become Tanzania.

A major success for Tanzania was the Moshi coffee auctions that attracted international buyers after the annual Nairobi auctions.

In 1954, Julius Nyerere, the future leader of Tanzania, who was then a school teacher and one of only two Tanganyikans educated abroad at the university level, organized a political party — the Tanganyika African National Union ( TANU ).

The country was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania on October 29 of that year.

the main urban area of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, was for several long decades the main victim of this de-emphasis, largely because it ' remained for Nyerere a reminder of a colonial legacy ( Myers, 2011: 44 )

However, the ruling party comfortably won the elections amid widespread irregularities and its candidate Benjamin William Mkapa was subsequently sworn in as the new president of Tanzania in the country's ever multi-party election on 23 November 1995.

From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development.

The PRGF was the successor program to the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility ( ESAF ), which Tanzania also participated in from 1996-1999.

Tanzania's first president, Julius Nyerere also was one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, and, during the Cold War era, Tanzania played an important role in regional and international organizations, such as the Non-Aligned Movement, the front-line states, the G-77, and the Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ) ( now the African Union ).

In 2011, AcademyRank. com ranked the university as the 2, 967th best university worldwide ( out of 9, 805 ranked universities ) but the best of the 16 ranked in Tanzania, with the Sokoine University of Agriculture in second place.

In January 2012, Webometrics ranked the university as the 1, 907th best university worldwide based on its web presence ( an assessment of the scholarly contents, visibility, and impact of the university on the web ) but the best in Tanzania, with the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University far behind in second place.

It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Air service is maintained by Air Burundi, which operates domestic service and flies to Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Despite the ape-like morphology of the bodies, H. habilis remains are often accompanied by primitive stone tools ( e. g. Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Lake Turkana, Kenya ).

The demise of the impi finally came about with the success of European colonization of Africa-first in southern Africa by the British, and finally in East Africa as German colonialists defeated the last of the impi-style formations under Mkawawa, chief of the Hehe of Tanzania.

Responsible for having introduced irrigation and composting techniques to East Africa, they were progressively displaced in a southerly direction and / or absorbed by the incoming Nilotic and Bantu groups until they wound up in Tanzania.

The only widespread Khoisan language is Khoekhoe (" Nàmá ") of Namibia, with a quarter of a million speakers ; Sandawe in Tanzania is second in number with about 40, 000, some monolingual ; and the Juu language cluster of the northern Kalahari is spoken by some 30, 000 people.

In a statement read out by its January President, Augustine Mahiga of Tanzania, the Council also called on Syria to take measures to stop movements of arms and personnel into Lebanon.

The Maasai Mara National Reserve ( also spelled Masai Mara ; known by the locals as The Mara ) is a large game reserve in south-western Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

The percentage of roads that have been paved and maintained by Somalis during the civil war period is the same as of that of Kenya and Ethiopia, and much higher than in Tanzania.

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( ), is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south.

More recently, Tanzania is believed to have been populated by hunter-gatherer communities, probably Cushitic and Khoisan speaking people.

The President of Tanzania, and the members of the National Assembly, are elected concurrently by direct popular vote for five-year terms.

Judges are appointed by the Chief Justice of Tanzania, except for those of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, who are appointed by the President.

During 2006, Tanzania suffered a crippling series of " load-shedding " or power-rationing episodes caused by a shortfall of generated power, largely because of insufficient hydro-electric generation.

The Engaresero village on the Western shores of Lake Natron has been chosen by the government of Tanzania to exemplify the Maasai pastoral system given its singularity, integrity, high diversity of habitats and biodiversity.

Malaria Clinic in Tanzania helped by Extreme Blue # Extreme Blue Projects | SMS for Life program

Football is the most popular sport in Tanzania, despite the little success that has been achieved by the national team.

Tanzania is home to some of the oldest human settlements unearthed by archaeologists, including stone tools and fossils of hominids found in and around Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania, an area often referred to as " The Cradle of Mankind ".