In Tanzania, something snapped this year. Protests followed the October 29, 2025, elections. They are unprecedented in their scale, national breadth, and political content since the country’s independence in 1961. But the repression unleashed by newly re-elected President Samia Suluhu Hassan has also been unprecedented. She has gone further than her autocratic predecessors in closing…
Interesting developments are happening in the field of elections in many parts of Africa this month. Some point to an intriguing direction incumbents are taking, be it in the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Tanzania or even Uganda. In Ivory Coast, President Alassane Ouattara has been declared the winner of the presidential election, with a landslide. Provisional…
Angola has denied entry to several senior African political figures set to attend a conference hosted by the country’s main opposition party, UNITA. UNITA said it had invited the politicians, including Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, National Unity Platform’s Robert Kyagalunyi aka Bobi Wine from Uganda, and Mozambique’s Venancio Mondlane. Botswana’s former President Ian Khama,…
