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Tanzania police arrest oil firm bosses over fuel shortage
Tanzanian Police have arrested three top oil marketing firms' bosses for questioning as the country's authorities allege foul play over...
Jul 1, 2020
My sixteenth arrest: The struggle continues - Zitto Kabwe
There are 118 days to go until Tanzania’s general election on 25 October. And the crackdown from a government fearful of opposition and...
Jun 29, 2020
Tanzania: Opposition politicians arrested as crackdown escalates ahead of elections
In response to the arrest of opposition leader Zitto Kabwe, leader of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT), along with seven...
Jun 25, 2020
Tanzania arrests opposition party leader, revokes newspaper licence
Tanzanian opposition party leader Zitto Kabwe and eight other members were arrested on Tuesday for holding an illegal assembly, the party...
Jun 24, 2020
Tanzania passes Bill to give leaders immunity
Tanzania has passed a Bill that will offer immunity to its top leaders against prosecution for any action undertaken while in office....
Jun 22, 2020
Tanzania ban on public interest litigation bad for human rights
Tanzania lawmakers recently (June 10) passed a bill that outlaws public interest litigation. It says any individual seeking to use the...
Jun 17, 2020
Tanzania's John Magufuli dissolves Parliament ahead of elections
Tanzania's parliament has been dissolved ahead of elections due in October, with President John Magufuli pledging a "free and fair" vote...
Jun 17, 2020
Tanzanian Opposition cries foul over attacks on leaders as election looms
Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema says its leaders are subject to politically motivated attacks. The party's deputy chairman Tundu...
Jun 11, 2020
Assassination Survivor Bid to Run for President in Tanzania
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu will run for president in elections in October, three years after surviving an assassination...
Jun 9, 2020
Tanzania - A Nation At The Crossroads
For the past five years, Tanzania has been under the iron fist of President John Magufuli and his Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. In...
Jun 8, 2020
'High risk of contracting coronavirus in Tanzania'
The US Embassy in Tanzania has warned that the risk of contracting coronavirus in Dar es Salaam, a major city and commercial port, and...
Jun 4, 2020
Opposition parties in Tanzania claim new election rules flawed
Opposition parties Chadema and ACT-Wazalendo yesterday outlined flaws in the ongoing review of election regulations, which, they say, may...
Jun 3, 2020
Tanzania risks pariah status in Covid-19 response
Every Sunday John Magufuli visits the local church in his hometown of Chato in Tanzania’s northwestern region. After attending mass, he...
May 28, 2020
Bumbling, irrational, deadly: The Tanzanian president is getting the Covid-19 response all wrong
By Zitto Kabwe Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has chosen not to deal with the Covid-19 crisis as a serious healthcare issue that...
May 26, 2020
Tanzanian Prisoners’ Rights Ignored in Covid-19 Response
The Tanzanian government should allow all inmates access to legal counsel to ensure their rights are respected amid the Covid-19 crisis,...
May 21, 2020
Tanzania accuses Kenya of trying to sabotage tourism industry with covid claims
The Tanzanian Government has rubbished claims that 19 Tanzanian truck drivers tested positive at the Namanga border earlier in the week....
May 20, 2020
The Tanzanian Cartoonist Holding Politicians To Account
In a quiet office on the third floor of a building in Nairobi’s central business district, the cartoonist known by his pen name, Gado,...
May 18, 2020
Tanzanian doctors sound alarm over hidden coronavirus cases
The Tanzanian government’s tepid response to COVID-19 and seeming lack of transparency over coronavirus cases is fuelling concern that it...
May 15, 2020
COVID-19 is casting Magufuli in the worst light, in an election year
It began with Elizabeth Ane. President John Pombe Magufuli explained that he had suspected that the number of COVID-19 cases in Tanzania...
May 14, 2020
US Embassy says Covid-19 threat in Tanzania's main city 'extremely high'
The US Embassy in Tanzania, claiming that many hospitals in the main city Dar es Salaam have been overwhelmed in recent weeks, contends...
May 14, 2020
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