Tanzania is getting a political remake as President Hassan eyes the 2025 polls
Hassan is winning party loyalists, and has launched a diplomatic charm offensive ahead of 2025 polls.
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Hassan is winning party loyalists, and has launched a diplomatic charm offensive ahead of 2025 polls.
Dar’s Samia has put her best foot forward, but wavering on Covid Tuesday May 11 2021 Summary Realising that she is the number one diplomat for her country, she has put her best foot forward, and the effect is wholesome. Still she has to be wary of the legacy she has inherited. There is so much engrained coarseness instilled over the past five years that I do not see how it can be scraped away even with square kilometres of sandpaper covering all government floors and walls. Advertisement There is a not too kind cartoonist somewhere in our country who recently portrayed President Samia Sulu...
The East African Wednesday April 14 2021 Summary Samia Suluhu Hassan is in the driving seat, and this vehicle will move at her speed. The first public statements she’s made have given hope to those who had been groaning under the heavy hand of Magufuli. Almost overnight, after her takeover and after just a few of her statements at JPM’s funeral services, many people have taken to social media to express a new optimism with her arrival. Advertisement The national psychology seems to have changed, the language — both vocal and body — is already differently moderated and the government b...
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