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Tanzania
Population: 41.3 mn.
GDP: 22.5 bn.
Debt: 2.6 bn.
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The CCM old guard battles with the Samwel Sitta faction for the soul of the party as Chadema makes its challenge more credible. Major oil and gas investments are in store as electricity supplies improve.

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  • Vol 51 No 22
  •  5th November 2010

Down but not out

The general elections were won, as predicted, by the Chama cha Mapinduzi, which did however suffer some setbacks. Exit polls showed President Jakaya Kikwete in the lead but with two of his ministers, Batilda Salha Burian (Environment) and Lawrence Masha (...

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Challenging the CCM

The rise of the opposition Chadema party will not threaten the CCM’s majority but it will make the election battles fiercer

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Kikwete marshals his troops

The political parties expected to do best in the 31 October general elections are the governing Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), with Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) probably pushing the previous number two party, the Civic United Front (CUF), into ...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

A vote about corruption

Amid corruption concerns, a power struggle is growing within the governing party

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

The front line of politics

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, fourth President of Tanzania, has deep roots in both the ever-governing Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and the armed forces. His first challenge as he ends his term is to maintain the unity of his split-prone party; his second is to keep...

  • Vol 51 No 7
  •  2nd April 2010

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Blatant corruption could jeopardise substantial aid funds for Tanzania's government. About a third of its 2009/10 budget of 9.51 trillion Tanzanian shillings (US$7.29 billion) comes from cheap loans and grants from governments and multilateral institution...

  • Vol 51 No 5
  •  5th March 2010

BAE Systems refunds fraud

BAE Systems could face another round of legal problems on its arms contracts in Africa, Eastern Europe and Saudi Arabia following an injunction obtained by British lobbyists Corner House on 3 March to freeze the company’s US$450 million plea-bargain deal ...

  • Vol 51 No 4
  •  19th February 2010

Protection in the arms bazaar

A plea bargain deal in the UK and USA has set back investigations into arms trade crookery in South Africa and Tanzania

  • Vol 50 No 25
  •  18th December 2009

Tarnished halo

This once-favoured destination for aid and investment is now struggling with financial scandals and budget shortfalls

  • Vol 50 No 25
  •  18th December 2009

Banking on it

The credibility of the Tanzanian government's reform drive depends mostly on the Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, Benno Ndulu. The country is suffering both from a financial meltdown, which the government initially underplayed, and from a half-hearted cr...

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