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No Saudi suspect in Tanzania church blast, clarifies embassy

Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in Tanzania has clarified that a Saudi man found near the site of an explosion in the Arusha city last week was not a suspect, but only a witness, the SPA reported yesterday.Meanwhile, Saudi Ambassador to Tanzania Hani Abdullah Momenah reiterated the Kingdom’s condemnation of any act of terror while conveying the Kingdom’s condolences to the government of Tanzania.“The ...

Tanzania Muslim Council condemns cathedral attack

Tensions have heightened between religious communities

‘SHANGAA’: ‘Art of Tanzania’

“Shangaa,” at the QCC Art Gallery, is the first significant exhibition of Tanzanian art in the United States.

UAE says three citizens held over Tanzania bombing

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said three of its citizens had been arrested in Tanzania in connection with the bombing of a church on Sunday that killed two people and wounded six. Tanzanian officials initially said four Saudis were being held after the attack on a Catholic church in Arusha in north Tanzania but the government subsequently identified them only as "foreigners of ...

UAE says three citizens held over Tanzania bombing

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said three of its citizens had been arrested in Tanzania in connection with the bombing of a church on Sunday that killed two people and wounded six. Tanzanian officials initially said four Saudis were being held after the attack on a Catholic church in Arusha in north Tanzania but the government subsequently identified them only as "foreigners of ...

UAE Says 3 Citizens Suspected in Tanzania Bombing

UAE: 3 citizens suspected in Tanzania church bombing        

Tanzania inflation continues to ease in April

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian inflation maintained its downward trend in the year to April, pushed lower by a slowdown in food price rises, official data showed on Wednesday. The year-on-year inflation rate eased to 9.4 percent in April from 9.8 percent in March and has now fallen in 14 of the last 15 months. In December 2012 it was unchanged. The National Bureau of Statistics said in a ...

Emirati terrorists held over Tanzania church bombing

Tanzania has arrested three Emirati men and a Saudi national over a deadly church bombing, officials said, clarifying earlier reports they were all f...

4 Gulf nationals among 8 arrested in Tanzania bombing case

Eight people, including a Saudi citizen, have been arrested following Sunday’s bomb attack on a Catholic church in Tanzania.“Those detained by the Tanzanian police include a group of people from Tanzania, a few from Arab countries and other foreign countries,” said Osama Nugali, a spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, yesterday.Nugali said that the ministry and the Saudi Embassy in ...

Eight arrested in Tanzania church bombing

ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 6 (UPI) -- Eight people, four Tanzanians and four Saudi nationals, were arrested Monday following a church bombing in the Tanzanian city of Arusha, police said.

Tanzania Holds 4 Saudis Over Possible Link to Church Bombing

Tanzania has arrested four men from Saudi Arabia and four Tanzanians in connection with the bombing of church on Sunday that killed two people, an attack that has heightened sectarian tensions in the east African nation. Investigators said they were still determining the type of device used in the attack on the Catholic church in Arusha, a town in the north of the nation of about 45 million ...

Four Saudis held over Tanzania church bombing

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has arrested four men from Saudi Arabia and four Tanzanians in connection with the bombing of church on Sunday that killed two people, an attack that has heightened sectarian tensions in the east African nation. Investigators said they were still determining the type of device used in the attack on the Catholic church in Arusha, a town in the north of the ...

Four Saudis held over Tanzania church bombing

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has arrested four men from Saudi Arabia and four Tanzanians in connection with the bombing of church on Sunday that killed two people, an attack that has heightened sectarian tensions in the east African nation. Investigators said they were still determining the type of device used in the attack on the Catholic church in Arusha, a town in the north of the ...

Tanzania certain of winning lake order row with Malawi

Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Bernard Membe has told Dodoma’s Parliament that they have all kinds of evidence to ensure that they win the lake border row with Malawi if the mediators refer the case to International Court of Justice (ICJ). Malawi made its official submission in January 2013 in the Mozambican Capital Maputo to the African Forum [...]

Tanzania police: 4 Saudis arrested after blast

A police commander in Tanzania says four Saudi Arabian citizens have been arrested following a bomb attack on a Catholic church.