Fears Tanzania on cusp of Gen Z uprising after Kikwete turned President Suluhu into a ‘lapdog’ to muzzle Christians, retain Muslim hegemony
It is remembered that in 2005 as Mkapa served his last term, he was forced to deport Kikwete from New York after he went missing from the president’s delegation, only to be fished out of a Harlem brothel as Mkapa’s delegation waited for him to sign funding agreements with the World Bank and International Monetary (IMF). As is custom, such financial commitment are signed by finance and foreign affairs ministers.
Citing police and military sources, widely read newspaper says abducted Tanzanian former envoy Humphrey Polepole was assassinated
Scores of high profile personalities and frustrated youth that have been exerting pressure on governments in eastern Africa to institute economic, political and democratic reforms have become targets of abduction and disappearances as governments in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda resort to repressive tactics to hold onto power.
Election puzzle: Tanzania President Hassan, predecessor Kikwete face strong resistance for promoting Islamic hegemony
Catholics have publicly criticised Samia’s totalitarian rule are currently fasting and praying in protest. The Catholics are also unhappy with assassination attempt of Joseph Kitima, one of their most vocal clergymen in Tanzania.
Wolf in sheepskin: Tanzania’s October General Election will test coexistence of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
Like CHADEMA, ACT has been pushing for constitutional reforms ahead of the October polls, which President Suluhu Hassan has vehemently resisted. In addition, the opposition questions the independence of the Tanzania’s National Electoral Commission, which is picked solely by the sitting president.
