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  • Ambassador Meets English Access Students (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)

    Ambassador Meets English Access Students

    On February 12, Ambassador Alfonso E. Lenhardt welcomed 44 English Access Microscholarship students from the Kisaware Lutheran Academy and Kambangwa Secondary School to the U.S. Embassy for a Black History Month film program featuring the....

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  • U.S. Sponsors Medical Stores Department Warehouse (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)

    US Sponsors Medical Stores Department Warehouse

    On February 9, Ambassador Alfonso E. Lenhardt and Guest of Honor the Minister of Health and Social Welfare Hussein Ali Mwinyi attended the opening ceremony of the new Medical Stores Department Warehouse at Keko in Dar es Salaam...

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  • U.S. Mission Hosts Anti Human Trafficking Program (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)

    U.S. Mission Hosts Anti Human Trafficking Program

    On February 4, Deputy Chief of Mission Robert K. Scott hosted a discussion and film-screening of the G/TIP-sponsored film "A Journey to Freedom." The session convened Tanzanian government officials...

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  • Deputy Secretary Hayes Launches WMA Visitors Center (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)

    Deputy Sec. Hayes Launches WMA Visitors Center

    On Tuesday, February 5, United States Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes handed over control of the Burunge Wildlife Management Area Visitor Center, Babati District, Manyara Region to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism...

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  • Ambassador Lenhardt Meets with President Shein (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)

    Ambassador Lenhardt Meets with President Shein;

    Underscores U.S. Partnership with Zanzibaris

    On January 23, U.S. Ambassador Alfonso E. Lenhardt met with President of Zanzibar, His Excellency Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein at the State House in Zanzibar. Accompanying...

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  • Remarks of President Barack Obama (Official White House Photo by Sonya N. Hebert)
    Remarks of President Barack Obama

    Inaugural Address: Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or.... 

  • State’s Carson at Wilson Center on U.S.-Africa Partnership (Photo: U.S. Department of State)
    State’s Carson at Wilson Center

    My interest in Africa started in the mid-1960s when I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania. The 1960s was a time of great promise for Africa. As newly independent nations... 

  • Pemba American Corner Commemorates MLK (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)
    Pemba American Corner Commemorates MLK

    On January 19, the American Corner in Pemba celebrated the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday by hosting 33 English language college students from the Dar es Salaam College of Hotel and Business Studies. In his welcoming remarks, American Corner Coordinator... 

  • American People Partner with Tanzanians (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)
    American People Partner with Tanzanians

    On January 16, U.S. Ambassador Alfonso E. Lenhardt awarded Community Grants Program funds to eleven organizations working to improve the lives of Tanzanians and refugees living in Tanzania. The grants, which totaled $97,635 USD... 

  • USAID/Tanzania Welcomes New Mission Director (Photo: U.S. Department of State)
    USAID/Tanzania Welcomes New Mission Director

    Sharon Cromer is the Mission Director for USAID/Tanzania.
    From May 2010 to April 2012, Ms. Cromer served as USAID’s Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa, overseeing operations in the Bureau for Africa. USAID’s 27 missions in Africa implement a ... 

  • AFRICOM General Carter Ham Visits Tanzania (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)
    AFRICOM General Carter Ham Visits Tanzania

    Commanding General for United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) General Carter F. Ham made a one-day visit to Tanzania on January 14. He was accompanied by Ambassador Christopher Dell, Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activities... 

  • U.S. Ambassador David J. Lane Tours Tanzania (Photo: U.S. Embassy, Dar es Salaam)
    U.S. Ambassador David J. Lane Tours Tanzania

    Ambassador David J. Lane, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies, led a media tour to Tanzania from January 7 – 12, 2013. He visited rural communities in and around Arusha and Kilimanjaro Regions and in Mkruranga... 

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