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Charts: Public support for presidential term limits in Tanzania
The question of presidential term limits came up this week. The Second Vice President of Zanzibar, Seif Ali Idd endorsed the idea of increasing the presidential term from 5 to 7 years, which had...
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Charts: Tanzania, democracy and open (/closed?) budgets
Is democracy on the decline in Tanzania? With newspapers being suspended (and suspending themselves?), TV stations fined, opposition politicians and other government critics arrested (or shot), and...
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Fees, licences and lots of uncertainty: What’s in Tanzania’s new “online...
I blog, mostly here. I post on social media, mostly Twitter. I help run a few websites. I read and watch a lot of news articles, blogs, social media posts, YouTube videos and more, and sometimes I post...
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Does Kinana’s resignation signal the final goodbye to CCM’s 2012 rebranding...
I am delighted to be able to provide space for this guest post from Aikande Kwayu, but also sad that it is necessary. Aikande has very understandably decided to close down her own blog following the...
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Learning from the Tbilisi OGP Summit: Hope and ideas in an age of closing...
Photo by @Nnenna In the opening plenary session of the latest Open Government Partnership summit, one panellist offered his definition of open government: government of the people, by the people and...
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Are political party defections in Tanzania diminishing CCM or enhancing its...
Guest post by Aikande Kwayu Waitara and Polepole, from The Citizen, July 29 Ongoing party politics in Tanzania show that restrictions over civic space – freedom of assembly, etc – are not adequate to...
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The digger and the bulldozer – Zitto Kabwe’s arrest
Zitto Kabwe at Kisutu Magistrate’s Court, 2/11/2018. Photo from The Citizen “For a citizen, there is no patriotism greater than criticising your country’s government. The bigger patriotism is to defend...
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The Citizen gets suspended. And for what?
The Citizen newspaper was suspended today by the Government of Tanzania, for a period of seven days. The paper has reported that their front page article from Saturday 23 February was given as the...
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Covid-19 hits Tanzania
Originally published in Tanzanian Affairs First cases of Covid-19 in Tanzania[Editor’s note: As this is a fast-changing situation, the details provided here are likely to be somewhat out of date by...
View ArticleTanzania’s gamble: Anatomy of a totally novel coronavirus response
Originally published on African Arguments In contrast to most leaders, Magufuli’s main strategies are to limit information, treat fear as the main threat, and keep the economy running. Chapter One of...
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