Tag: Tanzania

Tanzania’s Dar-es-Salaam hit by water shortages as rivers dry up (Priya Sippy, Al Jazeera)

Fridoline Mtunguja, 56, has never been as busy during the 19 years he has delivered water across Dar-es-Salaam as he has been this past...

Improving learning and life skills for marginalized children. Scaling the Learner Guide Program in Tanzania (Patrick Hannahan, Jenny Perlman Robinson, and Christina Kwauk, Brookings)

This report focuses on one of the scaling labs launched in Tanzania in 2018 in collaboration with the Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED). It examines the process...

Property tax compliance in Tanzania: Can nudges help? (Matthew Collin, Vincenzo Di Maro, David K. Evans, and Fredrick Manang, Brookings)

Low- and middle-income countries around the world struggle with low tax compliance together with limited capacity to enforce compliance. This paper reports the results...

China/Tanzania. From Friends to Partners? The Changing Nature of Sino-Tanzanian Relations (Muhidin Shangwe, IFRI)

Since the post-colonial period, China and Tanzania have maintained a close diplomatic relationship. This note offers a subtle analysis of the changing relationship between both...

Are democratic reforms at risk in Tanzania? (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Tanzania’s main opposition party is demanding answers after police arrested its leader. Freeman Mbowe and at least 10 other Chadema party...

(Tanzania) Tanzanian Opposition Leader, Supporters Arrested (HRW)

Oryem Nyeko writes for HRW: On Wednesday morning, police in Mwanza, in northern Tanzania, surrounded the hotel occupied by members of the country’s main opposition party, Chadema,...

(Tanzania) Tanzania’s Chadema party says leader Freeman Mbowe arrested (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema has said its leader and other members were arrested before a planned conference to demand constitutional reforms. Freeman...

Tanzania – Tanzania sees only glimpses of change by new president (Fergus Kell, Sammy Awami, Chatham House)

As the first 100 days pass since Samia Suluhu Hassan was unexpectedly propelled to Tanzania’s presidency, her less combative style of leadership compared to...

Tanzania – Tanzanian communities unite to tackle the growing risk of floods (John Morton, Nyambiri Kimacha, World Bank blogs)

It is mid-October in Dar es Salaam, and it has been pouring rain for hours. Halima, her children, and her neighbors are worried because...

Tanzania – Discrimination in Tanzania’s Schools Ruining Girls’ Lives (Agnes Odhiambo, HRW)

Tanzania’s first woman president, Samia Suluhu, took office in March 2021. Her administration has the opportunity to call on education authorities to end the...

(Tanzania) The complex legacy of Tanzania’s John Magufuli (Al Jazeera)

Sammy Awami The late president has left behind a nation divided in its memory of a leader who was simultaneously revered and loathed. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/3/29/tanzania-remembering-john-magufulis-legacy

(Tanzania) Tanzania Gets Second Chance to Confront Magufuli Legacy (Chatham House)

Fergus Kell President Samia Suluhu Hassan must grant citizens an open and honest appraisal of Magufuli’s leadership, something denied to them in his re-election victory. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/03/tanzania-gets-second-chance-confront-magufuli-legacy

(Tanzania) Profile: Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s new president (Al Jazeera)

Tanzania’s soft-spoken vice president sworn in as the East African country’s first female president after the death of John Magufuli. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/19/tanzanias-hassan-quiet-achiever-who-wants-to-get-things-done

(Tanzania) Tanzania swears in new president after sudden death of Magufuli (Al Jazeera)

Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan sworn in as president on Friday, after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/19/tanzania-to-swear-in-new-president-on-friday-after-death-of-maguf

(Tanzania) Tanzania gov’t urged to ‘explain mystery’ of Magufuli’s absence (Al Jazeera)

Main opposition party says it knows ‘for sure that the president is ill’, even as the government calls on citizens to ignore rumours. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/16/tanzanians-should-be-told-about-magufulis-health-opposition

(Tanzania/Pandemic) Tanzania President Creeps Toward Acknowledging Presence of COVID-19 (VoA)

Charles Kombe Tanzania's President John Magufuli appears to be acknowledging the problem of COVID-19 in the country, after months of claiming the virus had been...