President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been publicly dismissive about the effects of losing western funding in the wake of last October's brutal elections in which over 500 protestors were killed and the state authority awarded her an implausible 97-98% share of the popular vote...
Looking for a way to target United States security and commercial interests President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government wants to lean on Washington's new ambassador to Tanzania William Trachman who described the country as being of ‘immense strategic importance' during a rocky Senate hearing on 28 April...
Weeks later President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government brutally repressed protests against rigged elections that gave her 98% of the vote on a turnout of 80%-plus leading to the deaths of hundreds of Tanzanians (AC Vol 67 No 1 Economy holds the key to Hassan's control & Vol 67 No 4 Election crisis disrupts cash pipeline)...
Vol 67 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
Only collectThere is slightly more room for manoeuvre in Tanzania where President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government has set out plans to increase spending by 10% to $23...
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The United States has made its first move against President Samia Suluhu Hassan following last year's political violence by imposing a travel ban on Tanzania's police chief...
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More European Union funding is at risk for President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government after it blocked a European Parliament delegation from entering the country to hold hearings into last year's post-election violence...
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After 153 days 63 000 testimonies and two deadline extensions Tanzania's Commission of Inquiry into post-election violence presented its findings to President Samia Suluhu Hassan on 23 April – but only the president will read them in full...
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Vol 67 No 8 |
- MALAWI
- TANZANIA
Five months after opposition to the election of Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan with 98% of the vote as President on 29 October escalated into deadly street clashes Malawi's former president Lazarus Chakwera has arrived in Dar es Salaam in a belated effort to mediate...
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Vol 67 No 6 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Rostam Aziz's takeover of Kenya-based Nation Media Group (NMG) is more than a business deal: it hands East Africa's most influential media conglomerate to one of Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan's closest allies...
The bigger threat to the economy would come from foreign investors turning off the tap on the multi-billion dollar mining energy and infrastructure projects in response to concerns about stability and reputational damage from ties to President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government...
In March President Samia Suluhu Hassan signed a cooperation deal in Moscow but very little in financial relief is likely from that quarter...
