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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...
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...
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Charging opposition leader Tundu Lissu with treason and banning him from this year's election shows that President Samia Suluhu Hassan's opening of Tanzania's political space has ended...
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