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t. e. Elections in Tanzania occur on both the local and national levels. The local government holds elections for street or village chair people. General elections at the national level elect the President and the members of the National Assembly. The president is elected for a five-year term. [1]
Tanzania's political opposition held its first major protest in years on Wednesday to demand constitutional changes to reduce presidential powers and reform of the electoral commission ahead of a ...
The police arrested lawyer Boniface Anyasile Mwabukusi and Mpaluka Nyagali on Saturday, spokesperson David Misime said in a statement. Philip Mwakilima, a lawyer representing the two, told Reuters ...
Tanzania's main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, and at least two of his top aides were arrested by police on Sunday for holding an unlawful assembly, his party and police said. CHADEMA, Tanzania's ...
From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development. Beginning in the mid-1980s, under the administration of President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania undertook a number of political and economic reforms. In January and February 1992, the government decided to adopt ...
t. e. The president of the United Republic of Tanzania ( Swahili: Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) is the head of state and head of government [2] of Tanzania. Samia Suluhu Hassan, sworn in on 19 March 2021, is the first female president of the United Republic of Tanzania. She succeeded John Magufuli following his death on 17 March 2021.
The Chama Cha Mapinduzi ( CCM; lit. 'Party of the Revolution' in English) is the dominant ruling party in Tanzania and the second longest-ruling party in Africa, only after the True Whig Party of Liberia. [4] [5] It was formed in 1977, following the merger of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP), which ...
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) -The death toll from floods in Tanzania following torrential rains this weekend has risen to 57, its president said on Monday, adding to hundreds of other deaths caused by ...