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Past articles by Khalifa:

Tanzania has a female president. Does it have a feminist president?

The late Magufuli had open contempt for women. President Suluhu has the power and political capital to change course. Following the shock of President John Magufuli’s death on 17 March, many Tanzanians are full of hope at what the rule of his successor might bring. President Samia Suluhu has already reversed some of her predecessor’s stances. She has ordered bans on media outlets imposed by the… → Read More

COVID-19 and the politics of sugar

Sugar has become the new gold in Tanzania as prices for the commodity soar and stocks vanish. → Read More

The irrelevance of NGOs

In Tanzania, NGOs have been conspicuously absent on the frontlines in the fight to contain COVID-19. → Read More

The opposition and its chances on 2020 polls

Dar es Salaam. Many in the opposition camp think that their main chances of winning in the coming General Election depend on how voters will make decisions by weighing the available evidence on how bad the government has fared in the economy and human rights issues. But political pundits and researchers people’s voting behaviour say that this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. → Read More

‘Level playing field and let women compete for leadership

A scholar and famous gender and women’s rights activist, Prof Ruth Meena, thinks women’s participation in decision-making should not be limited to their presence in the Parliament, but in all institutions, including the political parties, whose activities affect people’s day-to-day lives. → Read More

Questions as Lugola faces DPP

Questions continue to cloud the real identity and persons behind Rom Solutions Limited, the company at the centre of the Sh1 trillion ministry of home affairs fire department contract scandal. → Read More

Tanzania’s electoral body extends voters registration for Dar es

Dar es Salaam. The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has said on Thursday, February 20, 2020 that it has extended the voter registration exercise for Dar es Salaam Region for three more days until February 23. → Read More

Iddi Simba: The man who saw it all

Mr Iddi Simba, a former cabinet minister and perhaps Tanzania’s staunchest proponent of indigenisation policy passed away yesterday, his death coming only a month after the nation experienced another loss of a more or less champion of the divisive policy, Mr Ali Mufuruki. → Read More

Tanzania collects Sh12 billion through plea-bargaining agreement

Dar es Salaam. The government has collected a total of 12.3 billion from various accused persons who decided to secure their freedom through the plea-bargaining arrangement, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), has said. → Read More

Nshala: I don’t want to believe that our judges do take orders

Dar es Salaam. Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) President Rugemeleza Nshala slammed the recent amendments to the law establishing the Society as nothing but a manifestation of the government’s → Read More

International Parliamentary Union opens enquiry into Lissu case

Dar es Salaam. The Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has written to Parliament Speaker Job Ndugai enquiring on the steps the law-making body has taken to investigate an assassination attempt on former Singida East MP Tundu Lissu. → Read More

Tanzania Government reacts to Sh1.2 trillion World Bank loan

Dar es Salaam. The government spoke out yesterday on the World Bank’s decision to delay a Sh1.2 trillion education loan, asserting that negotiations with the international lender were ongoing to ensure it secures the funding. → Read More

President John Magufuli receives diplomatic credentials from

Dar es Salaam. President John Magufuli has received diplomatic credentials from nine new envoys to represent their countries. → Read More

Ponda reacts to Lugola sacking

Reactions to President John Magufuli’s decision to sack Kangi Lugola as Home Affairs minister continued to flow in yesterday - what with the secretary of the Council of Islamic Organisations in Tanzania, Sheikh Issa Ponda, being the latest in voicing his opinion over the development, describing it as a decision that was long overdue. → Read More

TCU deregisters nine varsities over quality

The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) announced yesterday that it has deregistered nine higher learning institutions as it intensifies efforts to align the country’s higher education with the national, regional and international standards. → Read More

TCU deregisters four higher learning institutions over quality

The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has announced today on January 21, 2019, over its decision to deregister four higher learning institutions over what the regulator says is the institutions’ failure to comply with the national, regional and international standards of higher learning provision. → Read More

Legal confusion as millions of Sim cards blocked

Legal confusion has surfaced over the biometric Sim card registration exercise – with the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) coming under attack for what critics say is the regulator’s resolve to push for a procedure that is not provided for in the country’s statute books. → Read More

Pundits fear TLS may lose independence

Parliamentary Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has invited legal stakeholders to contribute to the review of the amendments to the Tanganyika Law Society Act, amendments that legal pundits fear will affect the Bar’s operations as well as impinging on its independence. → Read More

Dewji fortune shrinks by $300m in latest ranking

Businessman Mohammed Dewji’s fortune shrunk by $300 million (Sh960 billion) last year, according to Forbes’ latest ranking of Africa’s billionaires listing in 2020. → Read More

Why TZ democracy in 2010s had mixed record

The previous decade, the 2010s, can be said to have begun with a steady glow of optimism but ended with a pessimism as far as Tanzania’s political development is concerned. → Read More