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Tanzania

Population: 65.23m
GDP: $79.61bn
Debt: 46.1% of GDP (2024)

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Bulyanhulu

Allegations about the brutal eviction of miners are being tested again

Environmental activists are demanding an international investigation into allegations that over 50 people were killed when Tanzanian police cleared the area surrounding the Bulyanh...


Revolution revisited

Zanzibar's old passions have upset a nation proud of peace

Oh dear! The media had exaggerated reports of Zanzibar's troubles, some foreign embassies were biased in favour of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF), foreign election observe...


A tale of two elections

A triumph on the mainland but an enormous mess in Zanzibar

It was the best of times and the worst of times. In mainland Tanzania, peaceful, well run elections on 29 October gave a thumping majority to President Benjamin Mkapa's incumbent C...


Nice guy finishes first

Mainland Tanzania came out of the elections glowing. President Ben Mkapa won a convincing 71.7 per cent (compared to 61.8 per cent in 1995) and his Chama cha Mapinduzi won the Nati...


Wind in the rigging

Zanzibar's parliamentary and presidential elections were a grim farce. By 7 November, the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) - which also holds power in mainland Tanzania - had been ...


Bad timing

A verdict is expected in the notorious treason trial before the parliamentary elections due on 29 October. The case, having aroused an international scandal, is now forcing the cou...


Offshore turbulence

The retirement of Zanzibar President Amour solves only one of the islands' problems

After months of argument, culminating in President Salmin Amour's threat last month that he was about to 'drop a bombshell', the Zanzibar saga appears to be over, at least for the ...


After Mwalimu

When Tanzanians stop mourning their Pan-African hero, they will have to work hard to keep the peace he left them

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 st...


Divided republic

The President is pleasing donors by tackling corruption more resolutely

Once again, the two parts of the not-very-United Republic of Tanzania are heading in different political directions. In Zanzibar, a Commonwealth mediator has forged an agreement (A...


Island initiative

A new agreement promises to end the political paralysis in Zanzibar

After four years of political stalemate, and three years of hard work by the Commonwealth Secretariat, a new agreement - still not formally signed - lays the groundwork for normali...


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