A key part of the political identity of late President John Magufuli was to promote massive infrastructural projects to boost industrialisation and bring prosperity...
It confirmed her growing confidence as a leader and the strengthening of her independent political base as she dismantles the legacy of her late predecessor President John Magufuli...
Looking back on a turbulent transition President Samia Suluhu Hassan's matronly hijab-wearing image projecting little charisma was just right for the elders of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) when they picked her to act as a foil to President John Magufuli's populist 'bulldozer' persona as the vice-presidential candidate on his ticket in 2015 (AC Vol 62 No 6 After Magufuli a difficult transition)...
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The opposition Chadema party celebrated Tundu Lissu's return to Tanzania after five years in effective exile in Belgium with its first mass campaign rally since 2016 weeks after President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted the ban on political gatherings imposed by her predecessor John Magufuli in 2016 (Dispatches 21/3/22 Exiles return and investors take a look a year after Magufuli's death)...
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Vol 64 No 2 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
It has emerged that following Suluhu's Nairobi visit in May 2021 weeks after she replaced late President John Magufuli 23 restrictive regulations that had impeded trade between Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were resolved (Dispatches 7/5/22 President Hassan takes her charm offensive to Nairobi)...
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The move by President Samia Suluhu Hassan to lift the ban on political rallies imposed by her predecessor John Magufuli in 2016 opens the prospect of wider reforms on electoral law and constitutional powers – but not before the next election...
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Some harbour concerns that the late President John Magufuli's nationalist policies and strictures on foreign companies will persist (Dispatches 21/3/22 Exiles return and investors take a look a year after Magufuli's death)...
President Hassan has kept on President John Magufuli's mining minister Doto Biteko who now toes the official pro-foreign investor line...
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July's internal CCM party elections lifted the lid on the continuing power struggle between President Hassan and her allies who were close to former President Kikwete versus the faction which backed Hassan's predecessor John Magufuli...
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Journalists and media houses were repeatedly targeted in clampdowns under President John Magufuli as the government's security organisations tried to limit dissent and undermine the opposition...
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Politicians and businesspeople in Dar es Salaam say that President Hassan has been implementing cautious reforms despite the continuing influence of John Magufuli's security allies within the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) (AC Vol 62 No 15 Clearing up after the bulldozer)...
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