Tanzania is set to hold its general election on October 29, 2025, but the race for the presidency has taken a dramatic turn. Despite initial signs of a competitive field, only President Samia Suluhu ...

The Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party (CCM), one of Africa’s longest-governing parties, and the outcomes of the October 29, 2025, general elections in Tanzania have become topics of debate across Africa and ...

The government ordered civilians to remain indoors, leaving streets deserted and shops shuttered. Fuel stations were closed ...

(Bloomberg) -- Tanzania’s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party named President Samia Suluhu Hassan as its candidate for elections that are expected to extend its grip on power in the gas-rich East African ...

Tanzania's President John Magufuli who has come under fire for his authoritarian leadership style has vowed that his ruling party will be "in power forever, for eternity". In a speech broadcast on ...

On 30 April, 2021 barely one month after the sudden death of President John Magufuli, who was also the ruling party chairman, members of the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) convened in Dodoma to elect Samia ...

While the space for opposition campaigns in Tanzania has widened, it still isn’t enough to facilitate free and fair elections. CCM and Chadema’s commitments to gender equity start and end with the ...

Baraza la Wawakilishi Zanzibar limekutana kwa mara ya kwanza, baada ya kumalizika uchaguzi mkuu uliokirejesha madarakani chama cha mapinduzi, CCM, chini ya Rais Hussein Mwinyi. Kikao cha kwanza cha ...

The opposition and other activists have been calling for constitutional reforms that would allow for the formation of an independent electoral commission, checks and balances within the administration ...

The US and European Union are cynically weaponising “human rights” over Tanzania’s post-election massacre to pull the country away from China amid an intensifying scramble for Africa’s critical ...

A supporter of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) celebrates in the streets of Dar es Salaam after the late President John Pombe Magufuli was announced President-elect. [Pius Cheruiyot, Standard] Daniel ...