The ministerial reshuffle announced on 8 January powerfully refutes claims by defenders of President Samia Suluhu Hassan that her authoritarian policies ahead of the 29 October election were a ruse to shore-up support from hardliners within the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi...
HOW PRESIDENT HASSAN REHABILITATED MAKONDA THE ENFORCER Disregarding international sanctions and multiple well-documented petitions from rights organisations President Samia Suluhu Hassan has rehabilitated Paul Makonda who as a reputation as among the most ruthless repressors of dissent...
But popular anger over poor services continues and the crisis is made worse by an escalating sense of political risk among investors following the use of deadly violence to repress protests after the 29 October elections and questions about the legitimacy of President Samia Suluhu Hassan's rule...
We hear the PPP arrangement involving Mofat is led by Rostam Aziz Tanzania's richest businessman and President Samia Suluhu Hassan's son Abdul Ameir...
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government has signed a deal worth US$540 000 per year with the Washington-based Ervin Graves Strategy Group as it seeks to boost its relations with the United States and convince investors that it can manage the political risks after the brutal repression of protestors after the election of 29 October...
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Three journalists were among the hundreds of Tanzanians killed during protests following the elections awarded to President Samia Suluhu Hassan with 98% of the vote after the main opposition candidates were banned from standing...
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Keeping the economy afloat in the face of international moves to suspend funding and investments is the biggest challenge facing President Samia Suluhu Hassan as she attempts to reassert her legitimacy following state violence that killed several hundred civilians immediately after last year's rigged elections...
They want to ensure that they do not lose control like President Samia Suluhu Hassan's regime which killed hundreds of civilians in protests after the polls gave her 98% of the vote on an inflated turnout...
As the scale of bloodshed during the 29 October general election hits home President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government has triggered the country's deepest crisis for decades threatening the cohesion of the country and the viability of its biggest economic projects including the US$42 billion gas plant at Likong'o with Shell and Equinor...
One security consultancy warned yesterday that the re-opening of the universities this week has crystallised government fear of a youth-driven revival of the protests against President Samia Suluhu Hassan's 97...
The technocrat and the party hack – that is the early assessment of new Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba and Vice-President Emmanuel Nchimbi the two men tasked with fronting President Samia Suluhu Hassan's efforts to heal the wounds left by the state's killing of hundreds of its citizens following the 28 October polls (AC Vol 66 No 22 Cloud of blood and doubt hangs over Hassan's victory)...
‘Hundreds' of Tanzanians were killed by security forces during the presidential election on 29 October and in the days that followed as President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared the winner with 97...
Vol 66 No 22 |
- EAST AFRICA
One of these – the Samia Suluhu Hassan Stadium in Arusha expected to seat 30 000 – appears little more than a $112m vanity project...