President Samia Suluhu Hassan's calm maternal image conceals a streak of ruthless determination to root out all political opposition to ensure her re-election no matter what the human cost say oppositionists and human rights activists in the wake of the shock abduction of a Chama Cha Mapinduzi grandee Humphrey Polepole (Dispatches 13/10/25 Ahead of vote Hassan's government ratchets up repression)...
Scion of the repressive times A month before his alleged abduction on 6 October former Ambassador Humphrey Polepole claimed President Samia Suluhu Hassan's youngest son Abdul Halim Hafidh Ameir was serving as a shadow intelligence chief working alongside Suleiman Abubakar Mombo the man the President appointed Director-General of the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service (TISS) on 11 July 2024...
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Despite the absence of a major challenger to President Samia Suluhu Hassan her government is taking no chances banning coverage of an opposition leader's trial and stepping up repression ahead of the 29 October poll...
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LOW INFLATION INCREASING DEBT President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party are approaching presidential and parliamentary elections on 29 October from which the leading opposition party Chadema and its presidential candidate have been banned with less pressure to loosen the public purse than governments facing competitive elections...
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With Tundu Lissu the leader of the main opposition party Chadema still in prison facing treason charges and Chadema banned from standing candidates few doubt that President Samia Suluhu Hassan will be re-elected with a landslide and that her ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) will win almost all the parliamentary seats (AC Vol 66 No 11 President Hassan turns bulldozer)...
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Formerly the top environmental official at the Tanzania Electric Supply Company Muyungi was appointed as President Samia Suluhu Hassan's advisor on climate change and environment in April 2023...
The African group of negotiators chaired by Richard Muyungi a climate advisor to Tanzania's president Samia Suluhu Hassan went into the Bonn conference calling for movement on financing particularly 'adaptation' funding to cope with climate change...
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan appears to be consolidating her control of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party after Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa became the latest senior official to announce plans to retire from politics...
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Vol 66 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
Despite a recent diplomatic charm offensive Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan is struggling to shrug off international condemnation and the digital salvos from her Kenyan critics as well as Tanzanians in the opposition in exile in Nairobi and perhaps most worryingly for her a growing chorus within her own party denouncing her administration for reviving a culture of abductions disappearances and murder...
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Vol 66 No 11 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
The detention and torture of Boniface Mwangi one of Kenya's most prominent civil society activists is the latest move by President Samia Suluhu Hassan's increasingly authoritarian government...
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan's tenure once praised for its democratic reforms has taken a sharp authoritarian turn...