Kikwete who has also run Tanzania's foreign ministry is extremely close to current President Samia Suluhu Hassan and would be likely to get strong official endorsement...

While Tshisekedi has received congratulations from regional leaders including Kenya's William Ruto Uganda's Yoweri Museveni and Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan there has been silence from the United States and Europe so far...

Across the border President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government has been forced to put on hold plans to give control of Dar es Salaam and potentially other Tanzanian ports to DP World amid concerns of secrecy about the terms of the lease (Dispatches 5/9/23 Dubai faces legal hurdles with port plan)...

The arrest and brief detention of opposition leader Tundu Lissu accused of holding an illegal gathering surprised those who thought that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had consolidated power and was steadily restoring democratic freedoms...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan appears to have backed down following a damaging row over a controversial agreement signed in February with the United Arab Emirates for logistics giant DP World to run the port of Dar es Salaam...

The response suggests that President Samia Suluhu Hassan's regime has not shaken off all the tools of repression used by her predecessor Magufuli...

Last November Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan used a trip to China to lobby for additional funding (AC Vol 63 No 22 Dash to oil depends on China)...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan was a main beneficiary of US Vice-President Kamala Harris's three-country diplomatic trip to Africa last week – she was hailed as a 'champion' of democracy and securing the most eye-catching of the limited economic offers on tap...