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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 45 No 2
  • 23/01/2004

Gun law

Belgian-based Groupe George Forrest has energetically rejected reports by a United Nations panel of experts and international human rights groups criticising its mining operations in Congo-Kinshasa as exploitative and linking them to the conflict there. ...

  • Vol 43 No 22
  • 08/11/2002

Multi-party, single party

The next president is being picked by a party caucus, not by the people

  • Vol 43 No 8
  • 19/04/2002

Decision time in Dar

The government faces a crisis of confidence amid mounting allegations of corruption, gem smuggling and covert operations

  • Vol 43 No 8
  • 19/04/2002

Wanaharakati and kuffar

Slowly and with some success, Muslim extremists are trying to seize control of Dar es Salaam region's 487 mosques. Islamists claim to have taken over more than 30 of the region's mosques and say their target is at least 200. These Islamists call themselve...

  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

Mkapa winds it up

As Zanzibar calms down, corruption and recession hit the mainland

  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

Gems for the martyrs

Tanzanite is a purple-brown crystal that, when superheated, turns into a pretty blue gem. Tanzanite sales in the United States alone are reckoned to be worth more than US$400 million a year - but it is mined only in Tanzania, whose exports of uncut crysta...

  • Vol 42 No 18
  • 14/09/2001

Bulyanhulu

Allegations about the brutal eviction of miners are being tested again

  • Vol 42 No 4
  • 23/02/2001

Revolution revisited

Zanzibar's old passions have upset a nation proud of peace

  • Vol 41 No 23
  • 24/11/2000

A tale of two elections

A triumph on the mainland but an enormous mess in Zanzibar

  • Vol 41 No 23
  • 24/11/2000

Nice guy finishes first

Mainland Tanzania came out of the elections glowing. President Ben Mkapa won a convincing 71.7 per cent (compared to 61.8 per cent in 1995) and his Chama cha Mapinduzi won the National Assembly elections overwhelmingly.

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