Vol 56 No 9 | TANZANIA LNG plant held up 1st May 2015 The immediate future of the liquefied natural gas project may rest with one of Africa's richest people, Tanzanian businessman Mohammed Gulam Dewji, whose fortune is estimated at ov...
Vol 56 No 1 | TANZANIA CCM faces apathy 9th January 2015 Elections dominate the calendar, as will the groundwork for the LNG project, whose economics are now less certain The party in power since the advent of multi-party democracy in 1995, Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), is virtually certain to win the presidential election in October or November. That ...
Vol 55 No 24 | TANZANIA Power scandal rocks ministers 28th November 2014 The President returns to find Parliament and people alike outraged by the latest corruption scandal. The CCM is looking for a way out Having spent much of November convalescing in the United States after prostate surgery, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete came home to find a country in turmoil over the escrow accou...
Vol 55 No 19 | TANZANIA Power fraud unravels 25th September 2014 How the government handles the latest power sector scam could have a major impact on President Kikwete’s political legacy Heads may be about to roll after revelations about the contested transfer of 200 billion Tanzania shillings (US$124 million) from an escrow account in the central bank, the Bank of...
Vol 55 No 18 | TANZANIA Constitutional disassembly 12th September 2014 Tanzania's constitutional review process has finally ground to a halt. What was to have been President Jakaya Kikwete's shining legacy will now become a throbbing headache for his ...
Vol 55 No 13 | TANZANIAENERGY MPs demand answers 27th June 2014 The government refused to give in to parliamentary demands for an answer about strange goings on at the power suppliers Investigations into the controversial release of US$122 million from an escrow account to the new owners of Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) are running into heavy weather...
Vol 55 No 10 | TANZANIANORTH KOREA The MIGs of Mwanza 16th May 2014 Tanzania has sent home the North Koreans who were supposed to be restoring some of the Tanzanian People’s Defence Force’s Soviet-era military equipment following secret...
Vol 55 No 9 | TANZANIA Electrical storm 2nd May 2014 Some of the government's electricity supply deals – what Energy Minister Sospeter Muhongo called 'shoddy contracts that are a burden to Tanzanians' – are back in the ne...
Vol 55 No 6 | TANZANIA Gas and hot air 21st March 2014 Progress, albeit hesitant, is being made on the vaunted gas economy and on the assembly that will oversee the new constitution With two months remaining of the current offshore licensing round, Tanzania is making slow progress in defining the shape of its new 'gas economy'. The challenge is to reach agreem...
Vol 55 No 4 | TANZANIA Trophy-hunters after Kikwete 21st February 2014 The President comes in for a storm of criticism over elephant and rhino poaching but the true picture is more complicated Embattled President Jakaya Kikwete has tried to fight back after coming under intense fire from the British Mail on Sunday newspaper and politicians at home and abroad over the sla...
