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Vol 66 No 1

Published 10th January 2025


Tanzania

Samia’s liberal dawn is eclipsed

Nobody expects the current wave of repression to end before the election in October because the Magufulistas have recaptured the ruling party

The Tanzanian polity is riven by speculation about how and why the era of reconciliation and openness ushered in by President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been replaced by repression arguably worse than it was under her predecessor, the late John Pombe ‘Bulldozer’ Magufuli.

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