Hardly 25 hours after Tanzania’s human rights record came under examination at the United Nations in Geneva, the country’s leading opposition politician, Tundu Lissu, was sentenced to four years...
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In the past 12 months, in my quest for a deeper understanding of leadership and solution-based politics, I have developed a growing interest in political developments beyond Africa. I...
Accountability must begin with those who created the crisis As Tanzania reflects on the tragic events surrounding the October 2025 general elections, we must resist the temptation to reduce...
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FREEMAN MBOWE: THE MAN, THE BUSINESSMAN AND THE POLITICS THAT NO LONGER UNDERSTANDS HIM
For about two years, Freeman Aikaeli Mbowe has been subjected to an extraordinary campaign of character assassination from some members, leaders, supporters and sympathisers of the very party he...
I have known Tundu Lissu personally since 2002, when he was still a relatively young lawyer confronting the government of President Benjamin Mkapa. Long before he became a presidential...
Tanzania’s High Court has ruled that opposition leader Tundu Lissu has a case to answer on a charge of treason, moving one of the country’s most consequential political trials...
WHEN Tanzania’s main opposition party leader Tundu Lissu sat down for a live interview on ITV’s Dakika 45 on 17th February 2025, he dramatically declared that his party would...
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REGIONAL DEMOCRACY IN PERIL AS KENYA’S KARUA AND COLLEAGUES FACE DEPORTATION FROM TANZANIA
KENYAN opposition leader and senior counsel Martha Karua, along with fellow lawyers, Lynn Ngugi, and Gloria Kimani, were detained at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,...
WHEN Tundu Lissu won CHADEMA’s national chairmanship in a bruising contest against Freeman Mbowe on the 21st of January 2025, many hoped for a revitalized opposition movement capable of...
KUMEKUWA na mjadala mzito juu ya ajenda ya Chama Kikuu cha Upinzani nchini Tanzania (CHADEMA) kuhusu ama kususa au kuzuia uchaguzi mkuu unaotarajiwa kufanyika Oktoba 2025, huku viongozi wa...