KILWA: OVER 150 tourists from nine countries who are in the country, have toured the Kilwa Kisiwani ruins park on the island.

c) Lack of use the management plan as the main vehicle for managing the property, d) Lack of approved boundaries for core and buffer zones linked to the land-use plans and appropriate protection; e) ...

KILWA KISIWANI, Tanzania (Reuters) - Like most other men on the tiny southern Tanzanian island of Kilwa Kisiwani, Ahmed Timami spends his days fishing. He sets out at sunrise in his wooden dhow with ...

“Kilwa was controlled at different times by Persians, Arabs, Portuguese and Germans but the original people were Africans and we’re still here today,” says Assuman, a young islander who makes his ...

Description and present state of conservation: The Islands of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980. The ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani comprise the vestiges of the ...

Photo taken on Dec. 2, 2013 shows a relic site on the island of Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Located on two islands close to each other just off the Tanzanian coast about 300km south of Dar es Salaam are ...