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Newly installed Samia Suluhu Hassan makes Gen Venance Mabeyo her trusted ally

The new president's cabinet reshuffle may have looked like a mere game of musical chairs, but Samia Suluhu Hassan was in fact careful to distance people who were close to her late predecessor John Magufuli and to make the chief of army staff the guarantor of her administration. [...] (381 words)

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Politics

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TANZANIA
Bashiru Ally
CCM
Diwani Athumani Msuya
George Mkuchika
Hussein Kattanga
Jakaya Kikwete
John Magufuli
Kassim Majaliwa
Leonard Chamuriho
Liberata Mulamula
Mohamed Mchengerwa
Philip Mpango
Samia Suluhu Hassan
Simon Sirro
Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service
Tanzania People's Defence Force
Venance Mabeyo

Samia Suluhu Hassan clamps down on Magufuli nostalgics

Tanzania's new president may have retained some of her predecessor's ministers, but she is keeping them on a tight leash. [...]

The President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan. © Spencer Platt/Pool/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

TANZANIA CHINA Infrastructures Energy Diplomacy 09/12/2021

Beijing and Dodoma seek to mend fences via defence and infrastructure Free

Tanzania's erstwhile primary trading partner China is still struggling to resurrect its business and diplomatic ties with Dodoma after the brutal hiatus of the Magufuli era. [...]

Tanzanian foreign minister Liberata Mulamula met with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Dakar on 29 and 30 November 2021. © Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation of Tanzania/Twitter

TANZANIA Diplomacy 25/11/2021

Boris Johnson seeks to extend 'Global Britain' strategy to Dar es-Salaam

With British investors taking an increasing interest in Tanzania, Boris Johnson's trade envoy is keen to make sure that the Magufuli era is well and truly over. [...]

TANZANIA Business 29/10/2021

Poacher Yunhua Lin's crimes further cool relations with Beijing

The sentencing of Chinese national Yunhua Lin to 14 years in prison for possession of and trafficking in rhino horn, as well as for money laundering, on 28 September in Lilongwe has fed into an investigation by the police in Tanzania. [...]

TANZANIA UNITED STATES Diplomacy 07/09/2021

Suluhu Hassan sends crack team to woo multinationals in Washington

President Suluhu Hassan promoted trusted economists to manage her relations with the United States, weeks before her foreign minister Liberata Mulamula was due to visit. [...]

Foreign Minister Liberata Mulamula, speaks to Robert F. Godec, United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (acting). © Twitter/@foreigntanzania

TANZANIA Defence Business 16/07/2021

Israel Shipyards woos the navy, abandoned by Beijing

The death of the Tanzanian head of state John Magufuli on 17 March and the arrival in power of vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan have fuelled the hopes of many military shipyards. [...]

TANZANIA Infrastructures Politics 09/07/2021

Ex-president Jakaya Kikwete uses influence with Samia Suluhu Hassan to China's favour

Former Tanzanian head of state Jakaya Kikwete, who was sidelined during the presidency of John Magufuli, has become an unofficial adviser to new president Samia Suluhu Hassan. He has been pressing for China Merchants' giant Bagamoyo port project, blocked under Magufuli, to resume. [...]

Tanzania's former head of state Jakaya Kikwete with Tanzania's president Samia Suluhu Hassan. © Evrard Ngendakumana/Reuters

TANZANIA Politics 02/07/2021

Samia Suluhu targets Bank of Tanzania after $129m vanishes from its accounts

The disappearance of nearly $129m from the accounts of the national bank at a time when the late president John Magufuli had fallen seriously ill has prompted his successor Samia Suluhu Hassan to embark on an overhaul of the financial institution. [...]

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan. © Daniel Irungu/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

Tanzania's new president Samia Suluhu Hassan. © AFP

Inner circles

TANZANIA Politics 28/05/2021

Samia Suluhu Hassan breaks free of CCM and installs allies as key advisers

The new Tanzanian president has chosen a number of her former collaborators as her close advisers at the president's office. Young and highly qualified academically, they also have in common the fact that they are not products of the CCM, the party which has been in power since the country became independent. [...]

Spotlight

TANZANIA Diplomacy 14/05/2021

President Hassan kick-starts her diplomatic service

Newly installed President Samia Suluhu Hassan has put career diplomats back in charge at the top of the foreign ministry. Although not much more than a symbolic departure from the Magufuli era, it has been enough to attract overseas delegations. [...]

MOROCCO TANZANIA ETHIOPIA Diplomacy 03/05/2021

Ambassador to Ethiopia Nezha Alaoui to carry on with same policy in Tanzania

After helping Morocco's return to the African Union, Mohammed VI's star ambassador Nezha Alaoui M'hammdi will continue to push for recognition of the country's sovereignty over Western Sahara from her new post in Dar es Salaam. [...]

TANZANIA Politics 29/03/2021

Dodoma's spymaster looks into leaks on Magufuli's last days

While the Tanzanian government was keeping a tight lid on president John Magufuli's state of health before his death was announced on 17 March, opposition leader Tundu Lissu published information said to have come from Tanzanian intelligence agents. [...]

TANZANIA CHINA Infrastructures Business Diplomacy 23/03/2021

Beijing seeks fresh start after Magufuli's death

Having struggled to get the vast Sino-Tanzanian Bagamoyo project off the ground, Xi Jinping's diplomats see the change of administration in Dodoma as an opportunity to breathe life back into bilateral cooperation. [...]

Former Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete and Tanzania's Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan. © REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana/File Photo

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TANZANIA Politics 19/03/2021

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TANZANIA
Bashiru Ally
CCM
Diwani Athumani Msuya
George Mkuchika
Hussein Kattanga
Jakaya Kikwete
John Magufuli
Kassim Majaliwa
Leonard Chamuriho
Liberata Mulamula
Mohamed Mchengerwa
Philip Mpango
Samia Suluhu Hassan
Simon Sirro
Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service
Tanzania People's Defence Force
Venance Mabeyo

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