In the 2015 elections Lowassa won 39% of the presidential vote against the CCM's compromise candidate John Pombe Magufuli which is the closest run for the presidency the CCM has ever had despite Lowassa's campaign being affected by his obvious ill-health (AC Vol 56 No 15 CCM springs surprise)...
Critics say the sad saga of inept power sector management continued with the late President John Magufuli's commissioning of the Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Dam on the Rufiji river...
The outspoken Paul Makonda who has just been appointed to a key ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) post is fast emerging as the leader of a new dawn for resurgent loyalists of the late 'bulldozer' President John Magufuli and the Lake Zone regions especially Geita and Mwanza from which they hail (see Box Paul Makonda another bulldozer in the making)...
Makonda warned 'that anyone who opposes President Samia Suluhu Hassan will be opposed to the late John Magufuli…' A powerful ethno-regional bloc based on gold-rich Mwanza in the Lake Zone was Magufuli's power base...
In 2016 President John Magufuli promoted Makonda to Regional Commissioner for Dar es Salaam where he threw his weight around...
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Lissu the former Chadema party leader who returned to Tanzania in January after several years of recovering in Belgium from an assassination attempt by former President John Magufuli's security services has been holding political rallies across the country (Dispatches 1/2/23 Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven years)...
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On 13 August Willibrod Slaa a former MP for the opposition Chadema party who later served as Tanzania's ambassador to Sweden and Finland under former president John Magufuli became the latest high-profile figure to be arrested for criticising the deal...
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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)...
