Tanzania News API

Get the live top headlines from Tanzania with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top 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=general&country=tz&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=general" \
  --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": "general", "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: "general",
    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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($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=general&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": 46860,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ea592a396be313508b9a18bc727abcb2",
            "title": "Mafia, Horizon Forbidden West and More Games Are Coming to PlayStation Plus Soon",
            "description": "A few other scare-tastic games, like Poppy Playtime: Chapter 2, are also coming to the service in time for Halloween as well.",
            "content": "PlayStation Plus is dressing up as a gangster this month. It’s not the most Halloween move the service could make, but I’m kind of into it.\nThere’s something very autumnal to me about mafia films and, therefore, the Mafia game series. Maybe it’s the ... [2454 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/mafia-horizon-forbidden-west-ps-plus-games/",
            "image": "https://www.cnet.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/564648f1d0bcdfc71f095bc5473eaf27c88b428e.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:20:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f262b4e25cc8e3206db7723c77d4fd60",
                "name": "CNET",
                "url": "https://www.cnet.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7eea0d25366d9822abcdfb44a31fc807",
            "title": "Deaths Halt Trial of Hemodialysis for Acute Kidney Injury",
            "description": "ICU patients who received initial intermittent hemodialysis faced higher mortality",
            "content": "Intermittent hemodialysis failed to prove noninferior to continuous renal-replacement therapy for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury and was associated with a higher incidence of death, according to findings from the randomized ICRAKI t... [4765 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/nephrology/generalnephrology/123414",
            "image": "https://assets.medpagetoday.net/media/images/123xxx/123414.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:31:44Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "572d25e23e12ec1560e8ee1884a7057a",
                "name": "MedPage Today",
                "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c6be4e1d6914df42205a99af64173f03",
            "title": "Wireshark Fixes 19 Security Flaws Including Code Execution Through Profile Imports",
            "description": "Wireshark has released version 4.6.",
            "content": "Wireshark has released version 4.6.9 to address 19 disclosed security vulnerabilities across its packet-analysis software, including a flaw that could allow arbitrary code execution when a user imports a malicious configuration profile.\nThe update ta... [9948 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wireshark-fixes-19-security-flaws-including-code-b7vwe",
            "image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E12AQE__-U_mz72CA/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280/B4EaE20GG3G8AQ-/0/1791920993903?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=lSs7kpcl3RvDw92Ax3EAjXBAnOBxJs00PtxlkehVgFo",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:00:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "06cda0335c4acf2cd6035a1c46478678",
                "name": "LinkedIn",
                "url": "https://www.linkedin.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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