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President Samia Suluhu Hassan has spent much of her first four months in office trying to re-establish relationships and moderate the radical policies of her predecessor John Magufuli who died in March...
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Vol 62 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
Tanzania whose Covid-denying former President the late John Magufuli refused to impose restrictions to control the pandemic says that it bucked the gloomy trend in sub-Saharan Africa recording GDP growth of 4...
Vol 62 No 10 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
President Samia Suluhu Hassan's goodwill visit to Nairobi early this month succeeded in substituting warmth and bonhomie for the mistrust and suspicion that characterised the late John Magufuli's view of Kenya...
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Vol 62 No 10 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
More recently it didn't help that Tanzania's dour nationalist President John Magufuli and Kenya's ebullient President Uhuru Kenyatta had such contrasting personalities...
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan made an unequivocal pitch for herself as the political heir to the late President John Magufuli in her first speech to parliamentarians this week since taking office last month...
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Only two days elapsed between the announcement of late President John Magufuli's death and the swearing in of President Samia Suluhu Hassan quelling fears that Magufuli loyalists would try to prevent her elevation...
Account at the centre Speculation about President John Magufuli's health dominated Tanzania's online spaces in early March...
After announcing the death from a 'heart condition' of President John Magufuli on the evening of 17 March Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan returns to the urgent matter of the succession...
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At first it was cryptic tweets from well-informed local commentators and the subject of discreet diplomatic conversations and then reporters took up the search for Tanzania's President John Magufuli late last week...
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As more officials and politicians fall victim to the Coronavirus amid mounting local and international criticism of President John Magufuli's downplaying of the crisis there are signs of a belated change of policy at the top...
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The latest spat came when Chilima attacked the President for asking him to deputise for him at the inauguration of President John Magufuli in Tanzania at short notice...