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...

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speculation about how and why the era of reconciliation and openness ushered in by President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been replaced by repression arguably worse than it was under her predecessor the late John Pombe ‘Bulldozer' Magufuli...