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Tanzania

Population: 39.5 million
GNI: $13400 million
Debt: $6200 million
Overview: Pressure grows President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete to act decisively against corrupt politicians and officials as economic management problems persist. Kikwete will reshuffle his cabinet, including perhaps Premier Edward Lowassa.

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  • Vol 49 No 13
  • 20/06/2008

Graft at the top

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...

  • Vol 49 No 4
  • 15/02/2008

Cleaning the stables

Parliament exposed the Prime Minister's wrongdoing and now the President has sacked nine ministers

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

'I know the corrupt'

President Kikwete says he is giving the grafters one last chance to change

  • Vol 49 No 2
  • 16/01/2008

The gang's all here

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...

  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

Politics of the sieve

The government has been sitting on a multimillion dollar scandal at the Bank of Tanzania, waiting for it to erupt. It has.

  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

ECONOMICS OF THE SIEVE

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...

  • Vol 48 No 11
  • 25/05/2007

GROUNDED

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.

  • Vol 47 No 14
  • 07/07/2006

Zero tolerance, so far

The new President is pleasing the people with a crackdown on crime and corruption

  • Vol 47 No 14
  • 07/07/2006

Zanzibar: the islands are quiet for now

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 ...

  • Vol 46 No 24
  • 02/12/2005

Privatisation flood

The ideology that has taken over Western utilities spreads in Africa

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