Sub Saharan Africa

Tanzania
Still current at: 26 November 2009 Updated: 26 November 2009

This advice has been reviewed and reissued with amendments to the Health section (cholera). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

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Travel advice for this country

Natural disasters

Tanzania lies on an active fault line stretching from the north of the country to the south and tremors occur from time to time. The last significant earthquake happened in 2007 in the region of the Kenya border, and was magnitude 6.0.

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Contacts

Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, British High Commission

Address:

British High Commission
Umoja House
Garden Avenue
PO Box 9200
Dar es Salaam

Telephone:

(255) (22) 211 0101
(255) (0)754 242 242 Duty Officer out of hours number (for emergencies only)
(255) 211 0303 ext. 2265, 2270 or 2216 Crisis hotline. (Please note this number will only be manned in times of crisis.)

Fax:

(255) (22) 211 0102

Email: bhc.dar@fco.gov.uk

Email: bhc.visa.daressalaam@fco.gov.uk

Office hours:

Mon-Thur: 04:30-13:30 GMT
Fri: 04:30-11:30 GMT

Mon-Thur: 07:30-15:30 Local Time
Fri: 07:30-13:30 Local Time

Website: http://ukintanzania.fco.gov.uk/en/