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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 50 No 13
  •  26th June 2009

Kikwete's bailout package

Tanzania, the second largest of the big-three members of the East African Community, has presented a budget with a bullish message designed to spend its way out of the global economic crisis. At 31%, the overall budget increase is the largest in the EAC b...

  • Vol 50 No 2
  •  23rd January 2009

Guards for sale

Young Tanzanians conscripted for their military National Service may find themselves doing commercial security work. The government says it wants to reduce youth unemployment and increase competition in the private security sector. It also hopes to bring...

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Corruption credentials

Tanzania’s judges have piles of files to read over the Christmas holiday. A flurry of former ministers, high-profile businessmen and ex-employees of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) were in court in November as prosecutors finally acted on information from anti...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

Corruption countdown

At last President Kikwete is pushing miscreants to return monies stolen from the central bank ­ some might even be prosecuted

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

Islamic alliance

The government proposes membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference and splits national opinion

  • Vol 49 No 13
  •  20th June 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
  •  15th February 2008

Cleaning the stables

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

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 2008

'I know the corrupt'

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

  • Vol 49 No 2
  •  16th January 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
  •  6th July 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.

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