Tanzania: Bird flu still a threat in Zanzibar, minister says

The government of Tanzania's semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar will not lift a ban imposed in 2005 on poultry imports, despite pressure from poultry farmers and retailers, the island's Chief Minister, Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, said on Thursday. The ban will remain in force indefinitely," Nahodha said in a statement issued in the capital, Stone Town.