John Pombe Joseph Magufuli

Mining industry investors are increasingly nervous about Zambia and the growing popularity of resource-nationalist motivated tax grabs such as the one ex-President Joseph Kabila imposed on miners in Congo-Kinshasa and the demand for $190 billion in back-taxes from Acacia Mining initially made by Tanzania's President John Magufuli (AC Vol 58 No 15 Magufuli's law)...

In Tanzania Roeland van der Geer was expelled for criticising President John Magufuli's human rights violations on orders from Brussels...

Last November President John Pombe Magufuli ordered the army to take over the transport and processing of Tanzania's entire cashew harvest of more than 200 000 tonnes...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has adopted a course of economic nationalism which clashes with the EAC's zonal approach to tariffs and he seldom attends EAC summits...

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...