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Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state composed of 26 regions , including those of the autonomous region of Zanzibar...

Timeline of Events

1964

4.26.1964

Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.

1996

5.21.1996

The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.

1998

8.7.1998

The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

8.20.1998

U.S. embassy bombings: the United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

11.20.1998

A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

2002

6.24.2002

The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.