As the World Humanitarian Summit is held in Istanbul, Oxfam Ireland CEO Jim Clarken says Europe could learn a lot from Tanzania’s solidarity with and generosity towards refugees

A powerful earthquake toppled homes onto children in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, killing at least two people in a region already beset by war, poverty and volcanoes.

Police have arrested two women on suspicion of killing of their pregnant neighbour and tearing her baby from her womb in a remote village in western Tanzania, a regional police chief said today.

Four British tourists and their Canadian pilot have been killed in a plane crash in Tanzania.

A passenger train rolled back into an oncoming freight train in central Tanzania today, killing at least 100 people and injuring 800 more.