Strategic Thinking on East Africa

From Chatham House Adjoa Anyimadu Research Associate, Africa Programme Tanzania’s next president will need to balance political and economic stability while delivering change for the country’s expectant youth. Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete congratulates politician John Magufuli in Dodoma on 12 July 2015, after he was nominated ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party’s presidential candidate. Photo by […]

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By AFP Dr John Magufuli. PHOTO | FILE Tanzania’s ruling party on Sunday anointed government minister John Magufuli as its candidate for presidential elections due to be held in October, party officials said. Dr Magufuli, 55 and currently the east African nation’s minister of works, will be widely expected to succeed President Jakaya Kikwete, who […]

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  Posted on July 9, 2015 by AfricanArgumentsEditor Dr Alexander Makulilo and Thomas Stevens As Tanzania’s dominant party since independence, CCM has always won both the Union and Zanzibar elections. Party stalwarts boast that whomever CCM nominates as its presidential candidate is all but assured of becoming the country’s chief executive – and on Friday […]

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By Fumbuka Ng’wankilala AFPTanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. Picture: Bertil Ericson Dodoma - A former Tanzanian prime minister who was the front-runner in a race to be the ruling party’s presidential candidate has been dropped from a shortlist for the post, triggering a rift among senior members in the party, officials said. The Chama Cha Mapinduzi […]

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Tanzania’s ruling party to pick presidential candidate BY AGENCY STAFF, JULY 07 2015, 15:16 Tanzania flag DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzania’s ruling party is selecting its presidential candidate this week, with the winner expected to take the east African country’s top job after the October elections. With a weak and fractured opposition, and President Jakaya […]

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  Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: Kizito MakoyeMore news from our correspondents Dugout fishing canoes sit on the banks of the Mtera reservoir in southern Tanzania. TRF/Zuberi Mussa DAR ES SALAAM, June 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania, home to Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti National Park, has a tradition of protecting land for the sake […]

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Burundian refugees being treated for acute diarrhoea in a cholera treatment centre in Kigoma, Tanzania. Photo: UNHCR/B. Loyseau 18 June 2015 – The cholera outbreak in Tanzania continues to spread among the populations in the country’s western Kigoma region amid an influx of refugees from neighbouring Burundi, the United Nations health agency warned today as […]

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Burundians fleeing pre-election violence rest on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a gruelling 22-hour boat journey. More than 100,000 Burundians have fled over the past month, arriving in Tanzania, Rwanda and the DRC. Photo: UNHCR/F. Scoppa 1 June 2015 – The new head of the United Nations relief […]

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APA-Kampala (Uganda) The Tanzanian President and chairperson of the East African Community heads of state, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has convened an emergency summit on the situation in Burundi to take place on Sunday, 31 May 2015 in Dar es Salaam, APA learns here Friday. According to a statement from the EAC secretariat in Arusha, the emergency […]

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Reuters Published: 05.22.15, 16:03 / Israel News Some 3,000 cases of cholera have been reported in a worsening epidemic in Tanzania among Burundian refugees, the United Nations said on Friday. A Tanzanian health official told Reuters on Wednesday that at least 33 people had died from the disease spread by contaminated water that broke out near […]

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