The 18 January endorsement of Tanzania’s president Samia Suluhu Hassan by the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi as its sole presidential candidate in the October general election came six months earlier than ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan became the sixth President of the United Republic of Tanzania in March 2021, following the death of President John Magufuli. She served as Vice President of Tanzania from ...

Democracy is in bad shape in East Africa and seems to be getting worse. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s political reforms after she succeeded the authoritarian John Magufuli in 2021 raised a ...

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s first female president, came to power as a renowned defender of human rights. She is clinging to it, critics say, by locking up and torturing those who stand in ...

Samia also sacked Magufuli loyalists, including chief secretary Bashiru Ally, foreign affairs minister Palamagamba Kabudi, and spy chief Diwani Athumani Msuya, who had overseen the previous ...