In 1989 you could count the Pemba flying fox on Pemba Island by the handful. The big fruit bat, with a wingspan of well over a metre and a fox-like face, lives nowhere else on earth, and by the early 1990s it was close to gone. People hunted it for food, and most of the island's…
There are two Pemba airports, about 850 kilometres apart on the same coast, and both are too small for what is now being asked of them. Pemba…
On 18 September 2026 Othman Masoud Othman of the opposition party ACT-Wazalendo became Zanzibar's First Vice-President again, nearly a year after an…
There is a second Pemba, and for many people searching the name, it's the one they mean. Pemba Island lies about 50 kilometres north of Unguja, the…
In the year to September 2025, Zanzibar earned 6.3 million dollars from clove exports, according to the Bank of Tanzania. The year before it had…
