At the start of the war Clayton was a government surveyor in Tanganyika.

After King Lewanika of the Barotse signed a treaty in 1890, the next year the British government placed Barotseland and land up to Nyasaland in the east and to Katanga and Lake Tanganyika in the north under the Charter of Rhodes ' British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), administrated as two different units, North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia.

The British government agreed that Rhodes ' company, the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), would administer the territory stretching from the Limpopo to Lake Tanganyika under charter as a protectorate.

In the aftermath, Obote's government acceded to all the mutineers ' demands, unlike the governments of Kenya and Tanganyika, which responded to similar demands with increased discipline and tighter control over their small military forces.

But during peacekeeping operations in Congo and Tanganyika, the Nigerian Army had no air transport of its own, and so in 1962 the government began to recruit cadets for pilot training in various foreign countries, with the first ten being taught by the Egyptian Air Force.

When Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined each other to form the United Republic of Tanzania, Zanzibar kept a semi-autonomous status, with Stone Town as its local government seat.

When Tanganyika and Zanzibar combined to form Tanzania, Stone Town kept its role as a capital and government seat for Zanzibar, which was declared to be a semi-autonomous part of the new nation.

Byatt proposed to his government that it should demand a return of the skull to Tanganyika in order to reward the Wahehe for their cooperation with the British during the war and in order to have a symbol assuring the locals of the definitive end of German power.

In the wake of the war, the imperial government instituted administrative reforms so that, by the outbreak of the First World War, Tanganyika could be said to be among the better-administered European colonies in Africa.

Given the new legitimacy of Karume's government ( now solidly backed up by mainland Tanganyika ), Karume marginalized Babu to the point of irrelevance.

Williamson's heirs sold the mine for about £ 4 million GBP to an equal partnership between De Beers and the colonial government of Tanganyika on August 13, 1958.

John Williamson was never married ; upon his death the mine was left to his three siblings, who promptly sold the mine for £ 4 million GBP to a partnership between De Beers and the government of Tanzania ( then Tanganyika ).

Since its discovery in Tanganyika, Africa, in 1952, chikungunya virus outbreaks have occurred occasionally in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, but recent outbreaks have spread the disease over a wider range.

The Germans were preoccupied with fighting uprisings in Tanganyika, especially the Maji Maji war of 1905-1907.

The East African Great Lakes ( Victoria, Malawi, and Tanganyika ) are the center of biodiversity of many freshwater fishes, especially cichlids ( they harbor more than two-thirds of the estimated 2, 000 species in the family ).

Johnston realised the strategic importance of Lake Tanganyika to the British, especially since the territory between the lake and the coast had become German East Africa forming a break of nearly 900 km in the chain of British colonies in the Cape to Cairo dream.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria ( Africa's largest lake ) and Lake Tanganyika ( the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish ) – and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa.

Muti is a term for traditional medicine in Southern Africa as far north as Lake Tanganyika.

However the north end of Lake Tanganyika was only 230 km from British-controlled Uganda, and so a British presence at the south end of the lake was a priority.

Continuing north of the Zambezi River, they formed a state in the region between lakes Malawi and Tanganyika.

The Lukuga in the north, Lake Tanganyika, the Luvua River to the south and the Lualaba form a territory that was once occupied by the Hemba people in the western part and the Tumbwe people in the more mountainous east.

Around 1871 David Livingstone noticed the break in the hills through which the " Logumba " passed, and suggested that the river might be an outlet of Lake Tanganyika, and that there could be other outlets further north.

These rift valleys are sometimes outside the borders of the province, as in the case of the Luapula-Mweru valley to the north-west and the Lake Rukwa and Lake Malawi rift valleys to the north east ; but the escarpments of the Lake Mweru-wa-Ntipa-Lake Tanganyika rifts in the north, and the Luangwa Valley rift in the east and south-east are just within the province.

The province also contains three large natural lakes-Lake Bangweulu and its adjacent wetlands ( shared with Luapula Province ), Lake Mweru-wa-Ntipa in Kaputa District, and the vast Lake Tanganyika in the north, which forms part of Zambia's border with DR Congo and Tanzania.

Tabora is a junction on the Central railway line which goes west to Lake Tanganyika and north to the port of Mwanza on Lake Victoria.

It is bordered to the north by Kigoma and Tabora Regions, to the east by Mbeya Region, to the south by Zambia and to the west by Lake Tanganyika which forms a border between Rukwa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Uvira is a city in Sud-Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, located at the extreme north end of Lake Tanganyika.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

In January 1866 the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who crusaded against the slave trade, went to Zanzibar, from where he set out to seek the source of the Nile, and established his last mission at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

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.

He returned to Tanganyika and worked for 3 years at St. Mary's Secondary School in Tabora, where he taught Biology and English.

Ujiji is the place where Richard Burton and John Speke first reached the shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1858.

Von Caprivi arranged for Caprivi to be annexed to German South-West Africa in order to give Germany access to the Zambezi River and a route to Africa's east coast, where the German colony Tanganyika was situated ( the river later proved unnavigable ).

As the Germans had shifted their interest to Tanganyika and Zanzibar where they had set posts, Sir Johnston therefore decided to meet with the only real threat, the Belgian administrator Captain Jacques, and together they agreed on a boundary that would be a line running from the northern tip end of Lake Mweru where the Lualaba leaves Lake Mweru to Cape Akalunga on Lake Tanganyika.

The first site selected for cultivation was in Kongwa in the central Tanganyika where locals had already cultivated groundnuts.

The kapenta is assumed to originate from Lake Kariba where it was introduced from Lake Tanganyika.

He initially fled into exile to Tanganyika, where he lived in Dar es Salaam ( 1961 – 1962 ).

Mbala is Zambia ’ s most northerly large town and seat of Mbala District, occupying a strategic location close to the border with Tanzania and controlling the southern approaches to Lake Tanganyika, 40 km by road to the north-east, where the port of Mpulungu is located.

Cameron's two European companions turned back, but he continued his march and reached Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, in February 1874, where he found and sent to England Livingstone's papers.

Philip Percival, Hemingway's safari guide in 1933, joined the couple for the four-month expedition ; they traveled from the banks of the Salengai, where Earl Theisen photographed Hemingway with a herd of elephants, to the Kimana Swamp, the Rift Valley and then on to visit Patrick in central Tanganyika.

Born in Ukerewe, Tanganyika ( now in Tanzania ), he is currently based at the University of Botswana, where he is an Associate Professor at the Department of African Languages.