PEMBA, Tanzania — It’s springtime on this green, hilly island, and the pungent, sweet smell of cloves spices the air. Zaharan Salim’s father, who crossed the turquoise water from Oman to settle here ...

IT WAS through one of those ludicrous and occasionally happy accidents of war that I came to Zanzibar. I had missed the southbound flying boat. There was a steamer leaving which I just managed to ...

PEMBA, Tanzania (Reuters) - It's an idyllic sight: farmer Salim Juma yells at his agile sons as they clamber in high trees on Zanzibar's northern island of Pemba, to harvest cloves whose spicy-sweet ...

Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar has banned selling of raw cloves ahead of the harvest season set to start next month. Cloves are a major export crop in Zanzibar, which is one of the ...

“Look out!” chef Wollman pulls me out of the way as a cart, laden with watermelon, careens down the narrow stone lane. The sun burns high in the sky; Hindi music and Taarab tunes stream from shop ...