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 ...

Over two centuries after cloves (Syzygium aromaticum) were first cultivated on a commercial scale in East Africa, this fragrant spice continues to hold a pivotal place in the region’s socio-economic ...

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 ...

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 ...

ZANZIBAR: EXPERIENCE the ultimate Indian Ocean escape in Zanzibar, an archipelago where time slows down and every sense is ...

The source of 80% of the world’s cloves, tiny, palm-wreathed Zanzibar off the coast of Tanganyika was long ruled by Arab sultans, who imported slaves from the mainland to cultivate the spice trees.

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 ...

Reporting from Zanzibar — “Here. What do you think this is?” Genes Salema, our guide for the day, crushed a handful of green leaves in his hands and held them out to us. We leaned down and inhaled.