Soon after his December 2005 inauguration, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete replied to critics who said he was too soft to run a country bogged down in corruption: ‘I may be wearing a smile but I am tough on issues.’ His predecessor Benjamin Mkapa’s govern...
Parliament exposed the Prime Minister's wrongdoing and now the President has sacked nine ministers
President Kikwete says he is giving the grafters one last chance to change
President Jakaya Kikwete’s appointments often annoy his colleagues. In 2005, he took almost a month to announce his cabinet, because the stalwarts in the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) wanted new faces. There was stiff resistance to the choice of Edw...
The government has been sitting on a multimillion dollar scandal
at the Bank of Tanzania, waiting for it to erupt. It has.
Millions of dollars in revenue from natural resources slip
past the government's coffers due to smuggling, a lack of administrative
capacity and collusion with politicians. No less than 90% of Tanzania's
timber exports to China went untaxed, due to cor...
Praising the government's private sector growth initiatives
earlier this year at the prestigious United States' Yale
University, East Africa tycoon Reginald Mengi stressed
the need to be 'careful' when choosing a local partner.
The new President is pleasing the people with a crackdown on crime and corruption
Zanzibar has been tranquil since the fiercely fought elections
of October 2005 and many find that surprising. After the 2000
polls, some 30 people were killed in widespread riots. Each time the opposition CUF complained that the governing CCM party had ...
The ideology that has taken over Western utilities spreads in
Africa
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