When a patient arrives in critical condition, every decision matters—and behind many of those decisions are nurses whose specialised knowledge and skills can make a crucial difference.

A fire can turn a routine working day into an emergency within minutes, leaving little time for hesitation. To strengthen its readiness for such situations, the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has trained staff from across the University on fire prevention, firefighting and safe emergency response.

The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is stepping up efforts to explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform the way students learn, lecturers teach and researchers generate knowledge through a new partnership with education technology company Astria Learning.

Modern laboratories at the University of Dar es Salaam’s Mbeya College of Health and Allied Sciences (UDSM-MCHAS) are helping turn classroom theory into practical skills for students preparing to join Tanzania’s health workforce, a recent assessment by the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has highlighted.

The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) and the Natural History Museum, London, are deepening a five-year partnership that has already contributed to the discovery of 11 amphibian species new to science, postgraduate training and a growing body of scientific research on Tanzania’s biodiversity.

Higher education leaders, scholars, policymakers, innovators, private-sector representatives and development partners from Africa and beyond will converge at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) from September 16–22, 2026, to deliberate on the future of higher education and its role in shaping Africa’s development.