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...

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...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan's tenure once praised for its democratic reforms has taken a sharp authoritarian turn...

Since then the French oil major has been advising Uganda to forget the refinery and concentrate on the pipeline the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) launched by Museveni and President Samia Suluhu Hassan in May 2021 (AC Vol 62 No 12 Pipeline may go nowhere)...

The shift towards authoritarianism under Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan contrasts with her initial reforms such as releasing opposition politicians after the death of John Magufuli...

‘After going through that experience any Chadema member who hopes to win in the same circumstances is not serious ' said Lissu before his arrest arguing that Chadema should boycott the polls unless President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government provides guarantees that there will be a more level playing field for opposition parties including changes to the electoral system...

After seizing control of the opposition Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) party Tundu Lissu now faces the gargantuan task of taking on President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) machine...