He won also because 40 years of politics under the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere seem to have made mainland electors favour unity and ideology over ethnic or religious differences...
The Organisation of African Unity has called for a full rerun but since the death of founding President Julius Nyerere no international (or for that matter mainland Tanzanian) figure has had much influence on Zanzibar's CCM hardliners...
President Alpha Oumar Konaré ('AOK') wants a successful outcome hoping to go down as a statesman on the lines of Tanzania's late President Julius Nyerere...
Everyone had expected that with the death of former President Julius Nyerere on 14 October last year the Union between Zanzibar and the Tanzanian mainland would come under strain...
Vol 41 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Tanzania's President Mkapa had stepped back from regional affairs leaving most high-level diplomacy to the founding President Julius Nyerere...
Appointed in Arusha in December South Africa's former President wants broad-based negotiations to include the Hutu-led guerrilla groups kept out by his predecessor: Julius Nyerere...
He has publicly stated his intention to step down in 2001 and frequently praises those African leaders who have made way for elected successors citing the late Julius Nyerere of Tanzania Quett Masire of Botswana and of course Nelson Mandela...
Saddened by the death of their founding President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in London on 14 October Tanzanians face a difficult run-up to the elections due next year without his steadying influence on the political stage...
The loss of Tanzania's Julius Nyerere on 14 October coincided with a serious worsening of Burundi's internal conflict...
Algeria's and Tanzania's first presidents Ahmed Ben Bella and Mwalimu Julius Nyerere made cameo appearances; sharp-suited Maghreb businessmen talked animatedly into cell-phones about Algeria's 'commercial renaissance'...
Lissouba says he hasn't spoken to Oba and Olivier directly but links Sassou's latest moves with his own attempts to start negotiations through contacts with figures such as Algeria's Ahmed Ben Bella South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere...