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Tanzania

  • President John Magufuli with World Bank president Jim Kim. Credit: Sarah Farhat/World Bank.
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    Tanzania: Magufuli’s mining reforms are a masterclass in political manoeuvring

    By Dan Paget
    July 17, 2017
    Whether his moves in the mining sector work or not, President Magufuli knows what he is doing. Ever since his election in 2015, Tanzania’s ...
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  • PoliticsTanzania

    Can confrontation and violence be avoided on Tanzania’s “Day of Defiance”?

    By Ben Taylor
    August 30, 2016
    Tensions are rising ahead of this Thursday’s opposition protests against President Magufuli’s “dictatorial” leadership. [Update 31/08/16: The opposition has now announced that it will be ...
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    Tanzania’s President Magufuli: man of the people, man of the party?

    By Erick Kabendera
    August 16, 2016
    Why the ruling CCM’s new chair might have to start walking back to his car more slowly. It’s possible to tell how influential a ...
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  • PoliticsRwandaTanzania

    Friends forever, again? Rwanda and Tanzania mend bridges

    By Jonathan Beloff
    June 15, 2016
    After years of tense relations, the arrival of President Magufuli appears to have kick-started a new era of warm ties with Rwanda. After years ...
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  • PoliticsTanzania

    #WhatWouldMagufuliDo sparks new bout of Tanzaphilia

    By Hanno Brankamp
    November 30, 2015
    A few weeks into his presidency, John Magufuli’s moves towards free education, anti-corruption and belt-tightening are already recalling memories of Julius Nyerere. In 1967, professor Ali Mazrui ...
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  • PoliticsTanzania

    Opinion: Edward Lowassa is not Tanzania’s Buhari

    By Emmanuel Tayari
    October 16, 2015
    Tanzania may well need change, but the incumbent party in the upcoming elections looks more likely to bring in that change than the opposition. ...
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  • PoliticsTanzania

    On the campaign trail with Lowassa: “It is my turn to lead Tanzania”

    By Mark Kapchanga
    October 8, 2015
    With Edward Lowassa at the helm, Tanzania’s opposition looks set to do better than ever before in the upcoming elections. But could the former PM go ...
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  • PoliticsTanzania

    Tanzania cannot be allowed to be the new front for state-led Islamophobia

    By Nathalie Arnold Koenings
    October 2, 2015
    The ruling CCM party has a record of dismissing opposition in Zanzibar as “Islamist”. With tight elections on the horizon, this divisive rhetoric has been ...
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  • PoliticsTanzania

    Joking Aside: What you may have missed in Tanzania’s elections

    By Marta Tveit
    September 29, 2015
    Presidential push-ups, a disappearing secretary-general and more promises than you can shake a stick at. Welcome to Tanzania’s election race. “I intend to be ...
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  • PoliticsTanzania

    Tanzania gears up for its closest ever elections

    By Johnnie Carson
    September 10, 2015
    October’s elections will see a united opposition, led by a high-profile defector from the ruling party, come up against a strong incumbent party, led by ...
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