Read more Tanzania stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2831/tanzania.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:24:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74667/startled-snake-horks-up-new-chameleon-species.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Tanzanian snake so startled by a British researcher that it threw up its still-undigested dinner in fact horked up a previously unknown species of chameleon. Andrew Marshall tells the Guardian he was surveying monkeys in the Magombera forest when he tripped over the nervous twig snake; though worried about...http://www.newser.com/story/74667/startled-snake-horks-up-new-chameleon-species.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/65048/chimps-can-get-aids-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have found evidence that chimpanzees can be sickened by SIV, the non-human version of HIV, adding to the understanding of how HIV/AIDS developed, the AP reports. Scientists have long believed that while other primates can contract simian immunodeficiency virus, they are not affected by it. A 9-year study of...http://www.newser.com/story/65048/chimps-can-get-aids-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Jul 2009 15:44:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63799/thirteen-bodies-plane-wreckage-found-near-tanzania.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThirteen bodies found off the coast of Tanzania’s Mafia Island may be the remains of passengers from the Yemen Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean last week, Reuters reports. Tanzanian authorities say that airplane seats and what may be part of an airplane wing were also found in...http://www.newser.com/story/63799/thirteen-bodies-plane-wreckage-found-near-tanzania.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Jul 2009 15:52:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61355/tanzania-opens-trials-in-killings-of-albinos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTanzania is trying seven people for murdering albinos and selling their body parts for use in witchcraft, the BBC reports. Dozens have been arrested in some 40 murders over the past year and a half, but so far no one has been convicted. Witch doctors sell “albino potions” for thousands...http://www.newser.com/story/61355/tanzania-opens-trials-in-killings-of-albinos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Jun 2009 8:28:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61375/first-gitmo-detainee-arrives-in-us-for-trial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe first Guantanamo Bay detainee has landed on US soil, landing in New York to face trial on charges of bombing US embassies, the Justice Department said today. Ahmed Ghailani arrived in the early morning, to be held in law enforcement custody until his trial in federal court in lower...http://www.newser.com/story/61375/first-gitmo-detainee-arrives-in-us-for-trial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Jun 2009 6:06:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56211/timberlake-to-scale-kilimanjaro-for-charity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJustin Timberlake is taking on Mount Kilimanjaro in an effort to raise awareness about the world water crisis, Access Hollywood reports. The star—who has been training four times a week to boost his lung capacity for the week-long climb—will be joined by Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco and Ethiopian-born...http://www.newser.com/story/56211/timberlake-to-scale-kilimanjaro-for-charity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Apr 2009 5:18:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52197/tanzanians-asked-to-secretly-finger-albino-murderers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe government of Tanzania is turning to a secret “referendum” to ferret out those behind a surge in killings that have left 45 albinos dead in the past 15 months, the BBC reports. Officials aim to collect, in writing, names of suspects. “When you invite people to accuse their neighbors...http://www.newser.com/story/52197/tanzanians-asked-to-secretly-finger-albino-murderers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Mar 2009 13:10:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have developed a promising vaccine against malaria, a devastating disease that kills a milion people a year, most of them young children. Trials of the breakthrough vaccine enter the final phase next year and it could be widely available by 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times . Successful trials have...http://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Dec 2008 1:45:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43459/mans-new-best-friend-rats-ferret-out-land-mines-tb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMove over, Rover: Man has a new best friend that is helping to combat two scourges plaguing the developing world. Rats, normally reviled as filthy vermin, are sniffing out land mines and detecting tuberculosis bacteria. "Rats are usually considered pests or enemies of humanity,” said one Mozambican handler, but they’re...http://www.newser.com/story/43459/mans-new-best-friend-rats-ferret-out-land-mines-tb.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 23 Nov 2008 15:00:01 CST