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Tanzania
Highly contested constituent assembly

The Constituent Assembly is too dominated by the ruling party Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) for it to be likely to bring in any major innovations to the constitution. [...]

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Diverging views on the revision of the constitution within the [...]

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Othman disavows Constituent Assembly

The Constituent Assembly is losing its delegates from Zanzibar one after another. The island’s Attorney General, Othman Massoud Othman, is the latest to go.

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Pre-election fever in Zanzibar

The approach of a general election in October 2015 is creating no end of political tension in Zanzibar. After the [...]

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The CA will sit, boycott or no boycott

Despite the boycott by some of its members, the constituent assembly will resume its work to revise the constitution on 5 August.

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Karume family split by debate

Members of the family of the late first President of Zanzibar, Abeid Amani Karume, are poles apart from each other about the ongoing constitutional discussion.

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Future constitution "made in CCM"

The ruling party Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has the upper hand on the Constitutive Assembly which is about to begin work on defining the country's future constitution.

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Mwinyi's son the CCM candidate

The list of candidates wanting the CCM investiture for the presidential election in 2015 is growing by the day. But minister for defence Hussein Mwinyi could be the only one from Zanzibar.

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Jakaya Kikwete's headache in Tanzania

Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has his work cut out to [...]

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Kikwete shores up his team for 2015

President Jakaya Kikwete killed two birds with one stone when he reshuffled his cabinet on 19 January. On the one hand, he took a firm line by not yielding to pressure from the secretary general of the ruling party Chama [.

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Zitto affair undermines Chadema

The general election in 2015 could be a piece of cake for the ruling CCM. Its main rival, Chadema, is verging on implosion.

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Separatist movement spreading like wildfire in Zanzibar

After a few months of relative calm (ION 1335) separatist [...]

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CUF facing Zanzibar separatism

Ismail Jussa Ladhu, the member of the Zanzibar House of Representatives for Stone Town, resigned from his post of deputy [...]

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Separatist fever in Zanzibar

The radical Islamist movement Jumiki (association for awakening and propagating Islam), generally called Uamsho (awakening) which gathers Salafist Muslim groups, [...]

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CUF leaders fight it out in Zanzibar

The congress of the Civic United Front (CUF) to elect a new Secretary General is not planned until 2014. But the contenders for the post are already on a war footing.

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Yusuf Makamba in the eye of the storm

A group headed by the former Speaker of the National Assembly, Samuel Sitta, wants to oust the secretary general of the government party, Yusuf Makamba.

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CCM's heavyweights react

Samuel Sitta was the target of attacks by CCM MPs who want to put an end to the anti-corruption campaign. Ultimately, it is President Kikwete who is being targeted.

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Payback time for Samuel Sitta in Tanzania

The Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament, Samuel Sitta, has not [...]

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Highly contested constituent assembly

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Othman disavows Constituent Assembly

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Pre-election fever in Zanzibar

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The CA will sit, boycott or no boycott

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Karume family split by debate

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Future constitution "made in CCM"

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Mwinyi's son the CCM candidate

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Jakaya Kikwete's headache in Tanzania

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Separatist movement spreading like wildfire in Zanzibar

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Separatist fever in Zanzibar

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