President Samia Suluhu Hassan has committed to pressing on with these plans despite repeated warnings that many of them are economically unsustainable and several have high environmental and climate costs...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan astonished supporters and sceptics alike when she attended International Women's Day celebration on 8 March as a guest of Bawacha the women's wing of the opposition Chadema party in Moshi one of its strongholds to a rapturous welcome...
Looking back on a turbulent transition President Samia Suluhu Hassan's matronly hijab-wearing image projecting little charisma was just right for the elders of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) when they picked her to act as a foil to President John Magufuli's populist 'bulldozer' persona as the vice-presidential candidate on his ticket in 2015 (AC Vol 62 No 6 After Magufuli a difficult transition)...
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The opposition Chadema party celebrated Tundu Lissu's return to Tanzania after five years in effective exile in Belgium with its first mass campaign rally since 2016 weeks after President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted the ban on political gatherings imposed by her predecessor John Magufuli in 2016 (Dispatches 21/3/22 Exiles return and investors take a look a year after Magufuli's death)...
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Vol 64 No 2 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan's regional diplomacy is gradually resolving longrunning tit-for-tat trade disputes in the region in the first few months of her tenure the president visited nearly all EAC member states (besides South Sudan) and tabled development and trade deals...
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The move by President Samia Suluhu Hassan to lift the ban on political rallies imposed by her predecessor John Magufuli in 2016 opens the prospect of wider reforms on electoral law and constitutional powers – but not before the next election...
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In Tanzania where President Samia Suluhu Hassan has recently returned from Beijing the government won IMF Executive Board approval in July for $1...
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Vol 63 No 24 |
- KENYA
- UGANDA
Less than a fortnight after their Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan visited China to drum up trade and investment Presidents William Ruto and Yoweri Museveni of Kenya and Uganda have made their own Asian sojourns...
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The answer from Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan is that her government is reforming the political system incrementally and is pursuing more outgoing economic policies working closely with foreign companies (Dispatches 19/5/22 Lifting media curbs points to President's growing confidence)...
CHANGING RULES SHAPE LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS After coming to power a year and a half ago President Samia Suluhu Hassan said that Tanzania is 'investor-friendly' distancing herself from her predecessor's economic nationalism but some of her ministers and officials remain ambivalent towards mining conglomerates...
Vol 63 No 22 |
- TANZANIA
- UGANDA
As Africa Confidential went to press Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was in China on a state visit with funding for the pipeline expected to be at the top of her wish list along with bilateral projects between the two countries covering agriculture industrial development and infrastructure...