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speculation about how and why the era of reconciliation and openness ushered in by President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been replaced by repression arguably worse than it was under her predecessor the late John Pombe ‘Bulldozer' Magufuli...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

He also has a close relationship with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan sent her condolences to Lowassa's family and to 'all Tanzanians for the huge loss' as she declared five days of mourning and ordered flags to be flown at half-mast...