John Pombe Joseph Magufuli

But President John Magufuli's agricultural policy has turned towards a continued heavy state presence and although the government signed up to SAGCOT willingly the programme has suffered from institutional reluctance to embrace free market ideas as well as the influence of special interests...

In the first days of the border crisis President Kagame headed to Dar es Salaam at the invitation of President John Magufuli at the head of a high-powered Rwandan delegation that included Foreign Affairs Minister Richard Sezibera Infrastructure minister Claver Gatete State Minister for East African Community Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe and Intelligence Chief Gen Joseph Nzabamwita...

President John Magufuli's Foreign Minister Augustine Mahiga took Brussels aback last month when he announced that talks would re-open on the stalled Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and the six-nation East African Community (EAC)...

To many that looked like a serious concession to Tanzania's President John Magufuli who has been pushing a resource-nationalist policy...

Nearly 18 months after suspected government gunmen poured 40 bullets into Tundu Lissu MP outside the National Assembly in Dodoma the most persistent thorn in the side of President John Magufuli plans to return home...

Since entering office a little over three years ago President John Pombe Magufuli has focused on domestic affairs...

Shortly after coming to power in November 2015 President John Magufuli sacked Edward Hoseah long-serving director general of the Prevention and Combatting Corruption Bureau (PCCB) replacing him with Valentino Mlowola a tough-looking cop...

Government officials are reluctant to sign off on important investment deals we hear because they cannot be sure that the contract they are accepting won't become the next object of President John Magufuli's fury in his campaign against exploitative foreign companies...

Half-way through his first term President John Pombe Magufuli is under pressure...

Socialite leads protest by Instagram Law suits by civil society activists and weighty statements by religious leaders are one thing but calls to protest by the Los Angeles-based society blogger Mange Kimambi face President John Magufuli with an entirely different challenge...

In Tanzania President John Magufuli has used populist tactics infused with resource nationalism to drive a harder bargain with international companies such as Barrick Gold (AC Vol 58 No 13 Risks for all in mining row) but there are doubts whether this would work elsewhere...