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Vol 41 No 19

Published 29th September 2000


Tanzania

Bad timing

A verdict is expected in the notorious treason trial before the parliamentary elections due on 29 October. The case, having aroused an international scandal, is now forcing the courts to decide whether Tanzania is a single nation or merely a sharing of separate sovereignties for the mainland, former Tanganyika, and the islands of Zanzibar.

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