In mainland Tanzania peaceful well run elections on 29 October gave a thumping majority to President Benjamin Mkapa's incumbent Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) which has presided over economic reforms and a fast-growing economy...
President Benjamin Mkapa won a convincing 71...
Union President Benjamin Mkapa now safely re-elected ducked the Zanzibar issue throughout his first term: he owed old political debts to Amour and his supporters...
The affair especially the prolonged detentions embarrasses President Benjamin Mkapa who has tried hard to clean up his country...
Union President Benjamin Mkapa and his CCM have tried to pre-empt further discussion by ruling that the present set-up will continue...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
All three Presidents - Daniel arap Moi in Kenya Benjamin Mkapa in Tanzania Yoweri Museveni in Uganda - believe that economic convergence will boost investment and expand regional markets...
President Benjamin Mkapa already looks more vulnerable in his bid for the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi's endorsement of him as its flagbearer for another five-year term...
President Benjamin Mkapa is a leading debt campaigner...
Mozambique's President Joaquim Chissano and Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa both former foreign ministers too worked with Bouteflika in the 1970s...
Confident of winning re-election next year President Benjamin Mkapa is tackling his country's formidable reputation for corruption: Transparency International's corruption index recently rated it on a par with Nigeria...
