Tanzania Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from Tanzania with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top nation headlines from Tanzania. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=nation&country=tz&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=nation" \
  --data-urlencode "country=tz" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "nation", "country": "tz", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "nation",
    country: "tz",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "nation",
    "country"  => "tz",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=nation&country=tz&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 38964,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e8c4d30ca9efefc3ef741f339c6b879f",
            "title": "Tanzania: TRA Expands Tax Education, Tin Services to Colleges",
            "description": "THE Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) in Tabora Region has embarked on a campaign to provide tax education and register students for Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN) at various higher learning institutions.",
            "content": "Tabora — THE Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) in Tabora Region has embarked on a campaign to provide tax education and register students for Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN) at various higher learning institutions.\nThe exercise is being conducte... [1728 chars]",
            "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202611050326.html",
            "image": "https://cdn.allafrica.com/static/images/structure/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-05T12:04:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b2a8a9bf339fa827c13a5a389d64b625",
                "name": "allAfrica.com",
                "url": "https://allafrica.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3b3d2e45389e152366fe81eb5fbb4f10",
            "title": "Tanzania Launches Five-Year Internship Plan Targeting 10,000 Graduates Annually",
            "description": "Five-year programme: Tanzania plans to provide internships for at least 10,000 higher education graduates annually between the 2026–2027 and",
            "content": "Five-year programme: Tanzania plans to provide internships for at least 10,000 higher education graduates annually between the 2026–2027 and 2030–2031 fiscal years.\nPrivate sector participation: The government has set a separate target of 20,000 priv... [2753 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ecofinagency.com/news-services/0511-60524-tanzania-launches-five-year-internship-plan-targeting-10-000-graduates-annually",
            "image": "https://www.ecofinagency.com/media/k2/items/cache/c10cc3cd27336131af68178ec5e664c8_S.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-05T11:39:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b92186fbc476117113661ff7f0762229",
                "name": "Ecofin Agency",
                "url": "https://www.ecofinagency.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8fb82f26287f11cef492c252db295788",
            "title": "East Africa Dialogue Seeks Tax Reform, Debt Accountability, Fairer Finance",
            "description": "KAMPALA, Uganda — A regional dialogue scheduled for Nov.",
            "content": "Organised by the Southern and Eastern Africa Trade, Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI), with support from Diakonia and the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA), the meeting will focus on the theme: “Enhancing Domestic Resource Mobilisation... [10910 chars]",
            "url": "https://africabrief.substack.com/p/east-africa-dialogue-seeks-tax-reform",
            "image": "https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wo12!,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fafricabrief.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D-722435868%26version%3D9",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-05T11:36:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a64266700425ba1035adf2ebece35052",
                "name": "AfricaBrief",
                "url": "https://africabrief.substack.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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