A month after the bloody general election in October 2025 in which hundreds were killed and President Samia Suluhu Hassan was elected with 98% of the vote Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Botchwey sent former President Lazarus Chakwera as a Special Envoy to investigate with Dodoma's consent...
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government charged him with treason and then cracked down on civil society groups and pro-democracy activists supporting Lissu then attending his trial (AC Vol 67 No 3 Opposition solidarity goes regional & Vol 66 No 13 As protests mount state repression goes regional)...
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Copyright © Africa Confidential 2026 The fallout from the stolen election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) last October and the mass killing of protestors has neither cut trade nor deterred investors in Tanzania's natural resources despite the European Union's half-hearted attempts to impose sanctions and some threats from the United States Congress...
His connections included Kenya's William Samoei Ruto Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan and Eswatini's King Mswati III...
Local sources report that Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan had wanted to send her personal guards to secure the precious stones and gold bars at the site...
Chivayo has cultivated ties with President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Tanzania promising to invest $200m in a Serengeti tourism project; he visited President Daniel Chapo in Mozambique to discuss energy investments; and met President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to propose internet and technology projects in Uganda...
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To her many foes Nchimbi's dismissal and expulsion was another show of strength by President Samia Suluhu Hassan...
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan hasn't been able to claw back any shreds of legitimacy after the electoral commission awarded her 97...
HOW HASSAN USES FINANCIAL INTERESTS TO DEFEND AUTHORITARIAN RULE As President Samia Suluhu Hassan has stepped up repressive measures in the wake of last year's disputed election and mass killings her government has redoubled efforts to bring in investments while trying to counter sanctions...
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)...
