German President Steinmeier faces colonial past on Tanzania trip

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday called for the country to face up to its "dark" colonial past in Tanzania and said his country was open to returning artefacts looted during the era. German East Africa, which encompassed Burundi and Rwanda as well as mainland Tanzania, was the site of one of the bloodiest uprisings in colonial history.

Experts say between 200,000 and 300,000 members of the Indigenous population were brutally murdered during the so-called Maji Maji Rebellion of 1905 to 1907. Most of them died as a result of the systematic destruction of fields and villages by German colonial troops.