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Tanzania

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  • Tanzania one party state elections
    PoliticsTanzania

    If the elections aren’t free and fair, Tanzania will be a one-party state

    By Zitto Kabwe
    February 3, 2020
    Unless the international community acts soon, the ruling CCM will steal the October elections. Zanzibar will descend into crisis. For generations, Tanzania has been ...
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  • Opposition leader and MP Zitto Kabwe visiting a market in Tanzania in October 2019. Credit: Zitto Kabwe.
    PoliticsTanzania

    Tanzania elections: Life has got worse under Magufuli. We need change.

    By Zitto Kabwe
    January 8, 2020
    Opposition leader Zitto Kabwe says the past four years of CCM rule have been disastrous and lays out his vision for a thriving and ...
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  • Africa InsidersPoliticsTanzania

    Africa Insiders: Magufuli shuts down another outlet for dissent

    By Africa Insiders
    December 12, 2019
    The essentials: Tanzanian President John Magufuli’s campaign to restrict critics or even potential critics of his administration has continued with his efforts to block ...
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  • Women listen to a radio election broadcast in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Credit: UNDP.
    PoliticsTanzania

    Why Tanzania’s local elections are more important than they might seem

    By Dan Paget
    November 15, 2019
    Tanzania’s local elections are an important prequel to the 2020 national elections – in more ways than one. Last week, Tanzania’s leading opposition parties ...
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  • The building of a wall around North Mara Gold Mine in northwest Tanzania. Credit: IPIS.
    EconomyTanzania

    As Tanzania confronts its industrial miners, what do locals think?

    By Hans Merket
    September 25, 2019
    Surveys of communities around Tanzania’s large-scale mines reveal widespread feelings of distrust, marginalisation and reports of violations. For many developing countries, industrial mining is ...
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  • Magufuli Nyerere: President John Magufuli of Tanzania. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsTanzania

    Tanzania: Has President Magufuli forgotten Nyerere’s lessons?

    By Nick Westcott
    August 22, 2019
    The president seems to be repeating the mistakes of Tanzania’s independence leader rather than learning from his legacy. I visited Tanzania last month for ...
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  • Kigoma women are being left vulnerable by authorities sworn to protect them. Credit: Patrice Brizard
    SocietyTanzania

    Tanzania: The strange and worrying rise of oil-covered rapists in Kigoma

    By Samira Sawlani
    June 10, 2019
    Scores of women in western Tanzania have been attacked and raped in so-called Teleza attacks. The authorities are doing little to stop them. One ...
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  • At Mzizima fish market in Dar es Salaam, the heart of Swahili country, Tanzania. Credit: David Stanley.
    EastLiving in TranslationTanzania

    A love letter to Kiswahili, those who speak it, and those who think they do

    By Elsie Eyakuze
    May 9, 2019
    Full of subtleties and triple entendres, threats and assurances, Kiswahili is not one language, but many (…some versions better than others). This is the ...
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  • Tanzania Palestine: Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat with Tanzania's former President Julius Nyerere.
    PoliticsTanzania

    Is Tanzania discarding Nyerere’s freedom-fighting legacy?

    By Mohammad Makram Balawi
    March 13, 2019
    Tanzania’s stance on Palestine suggests its history of fighting global injustice could be making way for a more pragmatic “economic diplomacy”. In November 2018, ...
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  • Tanzania. Credit: Andrew Moore
    PoliticsTanzania

    Tanzania search for missing millions raises questions over $1 billion

    By Tz
    February 13, 2019
    Tanzania has declined to release a worrying audit into its public finances. We analyse and publish it below. After taking office in 2015, Tanzania’s ...
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