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Tanzania
Population:	41.3 mn.
GDP:	22.5 bn.
Debt:	2.6 bn.
Overview:	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.

news from Tanzania

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Found 62 articles.

Vol 46 No 10
13th May 2005

Storm warning

The national presidency seems safe for Kikwete but Zanzibar remains uneasy

Vol 46 No 7
1st April 2005

Finding the new Mwalimu

The real presidential contest is for nomination by the still ruling party, Chama cha Mapinduzi

Vol 46 No 7
1st April 2005

Presidential race

There has never been such a fight for the presidential nomination since Tanzania opened up to multi-party politics in 1994

Vol 46 No 5
4th March 2005

Tanzania is getting a new ammunition factory thanks to George Forrest International, a firm whose eponymous main shareholder has big interests in Congo-Kinshasa and has told United Nations investigators and Belgian Senators it had no connections with mili...

Vol 45 No 9
30th April 2004

Troubled isles

As the nation drifts quietly towards the polls, trouble looms offshore

Vol 45 No 2
23rd January 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
8th November 2002

Multi-party, single party

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

Vol 43 No 8
19th April 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
19th April 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
23rd November 2001

Mkapa winds it up

As Zanzibar calms down, corruption and recession hit the mainland

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