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Tanzania
Population: 65.23m
GDP: $79.86bn
Debt: 46.1% of GDP (2024)

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Activists’ kidnapping highlights police campaign of repression

The abduction of a Tanzanian campaigner, assaulted by unknown assailants in Nairobi, reinforces concerns about a spate of extraordinary renditions

The kidnapping and subsequent release hours later of the Tanzanian political activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai in Nairobi is the latest in a chilling series of abductions involving the...

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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by speculation about how and why the era of reconciliation and openness ushered in by President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been replaced by...

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Opposition cries foul over latest brutal attack and poll rigging

A senior Chadema party official was abducted and beaten before being dumped in a forest a month after the kidnapping and murder of another of the party’s leaders

The crackdown on Tanzania’s opposition continues ahead of November’s local elections. On Monday, the opposition Chadema party reported that Aisha Machano, its women’s wing publicity secretary, had been...

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Back to bulldozer politics

Without spelling out her plan to seek election next year, President Samia is cracking down on opponents and rivals in the ruling party

The arrests of hundreds of opposition leaders and activists planning to attend rallies marking International Youth Day, suggests that the spirit of former President John Magufuli lives on...

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Wave of arrests points to pre-election crackdown

Opposition leaders Tundu Lissu and hundreds of supporters were among those detained

The arrest and detention of hundreds of opposition leaders and supporters on 11 August, ahead of a planned rally to mark International Youth Day on 12 August, suggests...

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Arusha comes to the rescue

Tanzania’s NFRA plans to export 1 million tonnes of corn to neighbours facing shortages following droughts

Tanzania’s National Food Reserve Agency has agreed to sell 650,000 tonnes of corn to Zambia over the next eight months as Lusaka counts the costs of the drought...

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Pipeline to nowhere

Two years after the final investment decision to construct the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) was taken, the US$5 billion project is limping on to an uncertain...

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