John Pombe Joseph Magufuli

Last November President John Pombe Magufuli took cashew marketing out of the hands of private traders who refused to pay the price he demanded for raw cashew and brought in the army...

With 15 months to go to the 2020 general election President John Pombe Magufuli faces blatant dissent from senior figures in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM)...

With the exception of Tanzania's President John Magufuli who faces elections next year none of the governments are going to the polls any time soon...

Mining industry investors are increasingly nervous about Zambia and the growing popularity of resource-nationalist motivated tax grabs such as the one ex-President Joseph Kabila imposed on miners in Congo-Kinshasa and the demand for $190 billion in back-taxes from Acacia Mining initially made by Tanzania's President John Magufuli (AC Vol 58 No 15 Magufuli's law)...

In Tanzania Roeland van der Geer was expelled for criticising President John Magufuli's human rights violations on orders from Brussels...

Last November President John Pombe Magufuli ordered the army to take over the transport and processing of Tanzania's entire cashew harvest of more than 200 000 tonnes...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has adopted a course of economic nationalism which clashes with the EAC's zonal approach to tariffs and he seldom attends EAC summits...

But President John Magufuli's agricultural policy has turned towards a continued heavy state presence and although the government signed up to SAGCOT willingly the programme has suffered from institutional reluctance to embrace free market ideas as well as the influence of special interests...

In the first days of the border crisis President Kagame headed to Dar es Salaam at the invitation of President John Magufuli at the head of a high-powered Rwandan delegation that included Foreign Affairs Minister Richard Sezibera Infrastructure minister Claver Gatete State Minister for East African Community Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe and Intelligence Chief Gen Joseph Nzabamwita...

President John Magufuli's Foreign Minister Augustine Mahiga took Brussels aback last month when he announced that talks would re-open on the stalled Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and the six-nation East African Community (EAC)...