Peter Wandwasi Tanzania at a crossroads with rapid democratic backslide under President Samia Suluhu Hassan 4 min 0 25 November 2025
PLEA FOR PARTIALITY Prominent African leaders urge Tanzania to free opposition leader Tundu Lissu and unban his party 5 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
EAST AFRICA Tanzania turns back clock to brutal, repressive Magufuli era as elections loom 6 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
OPPOSITION CRACKDOWN Tanzanian police dump ‘severely tortured’ activist on border as state slides back into authoritarianism 6 min 0 By Diana Neille
GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN DA, Amnesty International condemn arrests of Tanzania opposition leader Tundu Lissu and other Chadema members 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
ISS TODAY OP-ED Samia Suluhu Hassan’s hesitant Tanzania reforms and slow progress may be self-preservation strategy 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED Dubai carbon trader buys up African forests — saving the planet or environmental colonialism? 5 min 1 By Phillip van Niekerk
AFRICA UNSCRAMBLED OP-ED After six decades on top, Tanzania’s ruling party is finally running out of options 5 min 1 By Phillip van Niekerk
ISS TODAY ANALYSIS Tanzanians hard hit by murderous trade in trafficking in people with albinism 4 min 0 By Mohamed Daghar for ISS TODAY
BEIJING LOANS OP-ED China’s investment in Africa: Walking the fine line between debt-trap diplomacy and promotion of development 4 min 1 By Hellen Adogo
ISS TODAY Samia Suluhu Hassan: Will new Tanzania president aim to fill Magufuli’s big shoes or walk a new path altogether? 4 min 1 By Peter Fabricius
OP-ED Tanzania's five years of devastation under the presidency of John Pombe Magufuli 12 min 6 By Tundu AM Lissu
Missing President? Tanzanian opposition calls on government to come clean about John Magufuli’s health 3 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
TRAINSPOTTER Foreign Perfidy: Ramaphosa, smiling enabler of African autocracy 5 min 12 By Richard Poplak
OP-ED Tied to the past and lashed to the present, Zanzibar might never gain true economic freedom 5 min 0 By Phillip van Niekerk
ELECTION AFTERMATH Tanzanian opposition leader seeks safe passage to Belgium 4 min 0 By Carien du Plessis
ELECTION AFTERMATH Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu briefly arrested on day of planned election protest 4 min 0 By Carien du Plessis
Tanzania Elections Magufuli wins a second term amid observer concerns of low voter turnout, pre-filled ballot boxes and excess ballots at voting stations 4 min 0 By Carien du Plessis
