Tanzania’s Moscow visit amid post-election Western pressure signals a possible strategic shift eastward, raising doubts whether it is diversifying alliances or simply reacting to isolation.
A reference to Nanjing and Tiananmen is only to try to make sense of the October 29 events, and whether, as a nation, we can learn a thing or two from those two massacres.
Nyerere na CCM waliitaka China kutoa ufafanuzi wa kilichotokea Juni 4, 1989, pale Tiananmen Square. Sijui kama Chama cha Kikomunisti cha China kitataka maelezo kutoka kwa chama-dada CCM juu ya Oktoba 29.
If President Samia fails to deliver on improving the economy and frustration grows in the country, the opposition will be looking to use that to its advantage.
From the Tanzanian perspective, Mr Yi’s visit to the East African nation seemed to have two main goals: normalisation of the relations between Tanzania and China and showing China’s readiness to take part in the former’s industrialisation drive.
Tofauti na Ethiopia ya Abiy, Zanzibar ni sehemu ya Tanzania. Ni kiasi gani Mwinyi ‘ataruhusiwa’ kuwashughulikia wahafidhina wa tabaka la watawala wa Zanzibar bila kuingiliwa na mamlaka za Jamhuri ya Muungano?