After spending more than seven months in police custody in jail, Tanzania’s opposition leader Freeman Mbowe is finally released. This marks a significant turn in the politics of Tanzania, which is the oppressive regime of Samia Suluhu. Now after wasting a lot of time of the judiciary of the country, the prosecutor has decided to … Read more
Biden’s democracy summit is an effort to renew democratic practices all over the world by emphasizing the need to eradicate the tyrannic ways of ruling the masses. Just like the cold war when Russia and the US took steps forward to perpetuate their own ideologies of communism and capitalism, respectively, this effort of Biden is … Read more
The power structure of Tanzania is faulty in its entirety, and everyone having power in their hands is trying to exploit it in one way or another. Just like President Samia Suluhu, her right-hand man Job Ndugai, the speaker of Tanzania’s Parliament, is one such power abuser who took every opportunity to promote the dictatorial … Read more
The CIA defines terrorism as, “(A) premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.” Going by this definition, Freeman Mbowe could never be labeled a terrorist because he does not fit within the definition by any stretch of the imagination. He is charged with terrorism for demanding a new … Read more
“We tend to forget that nobody is safe until everyone is safe.” (Samia Suluhu in the United Nations) Samia Suluhu echoed these words from the floor of the United Nations while addressing the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). While speaking this, she forgot that she had jailed the political leader of the … Read more
Samia Suluhu’s rise as the President of Tanzania has intensified the violent policies of her predecessor John Magufuli, who was regarded as one of the worst dictators of modern times. The Tanzanian government‘s way of handling Freeman Mbowe’s case is the worst example of crisis management, driving questions about the impartiality of Samia’s administration. She … Read more
After cementing her regressive agenda at home, Tanzania President Samia Suluhu has started fostering her hypocrisy at the international level as well. As she appeared in a BBC interview, her lies to eyewash the critics are a telling example of how far she will go to defend her unconstitutional and merciless rule. As the BBC channel … Read more
Tanzania’s misery is not over despite the passing of the autocratic president earlier this year. When Samia Suluhu reached the presidential office, the calls for political stability were high amid her initial heroic actions of busting her predecessor’s COVID conspiracy theories. However, authoritarianism is unfolding in the country, setting dangerous precedents for the governments to … Read more
If you have watched a new documentary on Netflix named How to be a Tyrant, you can relate that Tanzania’s new President, Samia Suluhu, is on the road of going to join the ranks of the worst leaders in history. Famous dictators like Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, and Adolf Hitler have one thing in common. … Read more
President Samia Suluhu’s propulsion to power in Tanzania is mainly praised for her strategy to counter rising populism and the late John Magufuli’s unfinished legacy. Even though this shift in strategy by Samia is endorsable by political pundits, her approach to keep the old authoritarian constitution intact to safeguard the interests of powerful factions is … Read more
“The government should do mass mobilization, preparation to receive vaccines, storage, transportation, and people should be free to be vaccinated or not.” (Prof. Said Aboud, Committee’s chair) Finally, Tanzanian people can start hoping for the good days ahead. The country is all set to follow a scientific path to pursue COVID-19 vaccinations amid the new … Read more
“We cannot isolate ourselves as an island.” (Samia Suluhu) With a lot of debate going on about the coronavirus ignorance from Tanzania, rejecting all the foreign help, finally, the new President Samia Suluhu has changed her stance from that of her predecessor on the pandemic. Drifting away from the state’s policy of … Read more
