But DP World's concession agreement to operate Dar es Salaam port signed with Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been put on hold following criticism from oppositionists and civil society (Dispatches 5/9/23 Dubai faces legal hurdles with port plan and Vol 59 No 5 Any port in a storm)...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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The response suggests that President Samia Suluhu Hassan's regime has not shaken off all the tools of repression used by her predecessor Magufuli...
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Vol 64 No 10 |
- TANZANIA
- UGANDA
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)...
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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...
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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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