‘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...

The Tanzanian polity is riven by speculation about how and why the era of reconciliation and openness ushered in by President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been replaced by repression arguably worse than it was under her predecessor the late John Pombe ‘Bulldozer' Magufuli...

The arrests of hundreds of opposition leaders and activists planning to attend rallies marking International Youth Day suggests that the spirit of former President John Magufuli lives on despite the lip service paid to democracy by his successor President Samia Suluhu Hassan...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has commissioned the first official review of foreign policy in more than 20 years and revitalised cross-border infrastructure projects (such as the joint Tanzania-Burundi-Congo-Kinshasa Standard Gauge Railway Project which received nearly US$700 million in financing from the African Development Bank Group)...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan's decision last week to appoint her third head of intelligence in less than two years is the latest part of a wider reshuffle of key personnel ahead of a year of elections...

Like Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government is concentrating on energy infrastructure projects including the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project the ongoing 400kV Power Transmission Line from Rufiji to Chalinze and the extension of the Natural Gas-Powered Plant in Kinyerezi...