As the scale of bloodshed during the 29 October general election hits home President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government has triggered the country's deepest crisis for decades threatening the cohesion of the country and the viability of its biggest economic projects including the US$42 billion gas plant at Likong'o with Shell and Equinor...
One security consultancy warned yesterday that the re-opening of the universities this week has crystallised government fear of a youth-driven revival of the protests against President Samia Suluhu Hassan's 97...
The technocrat and the party hack – that is the early assessment of new Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba and Vice-President Emmanuel Nchimbi the two men tasked with fronting President Samia Suluhu Hassan's efforts to heal the wounds left by the state's killing of hundreds of its citizens following the 28 October polls (AC Vol 66 No 22 Cloud of blood and doubt hangs over Hassan's victory)...
‘Hundreds' of Tanzanians were killed by security forces during the presidential election on 29 October and in the days that followed as President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared the winner with 97...
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One of these – the Samia Suluhu Hassan Stadium in Arusha expected to seat 30 000 – appears little more than a $112m vanity project...
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...