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China, Tanzania
Beijing seeks fresh start after Magufuli's death

Having struggled to get the vast Sino-Tanzanian Bagamoyo project off the ground, Xi Jinping's diplomats see the change of administration in Dodoma as an opportunity to breathe life back into bilateral cooperation. [...]

Published on 23/03/2021 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Bashiru Ally Kakurwa
Belt and Road Initiative
CCM
China Civil Engineering Construction Corp
China Merchants Holdings
China Railway Construction Corp
John Magufuli
Palamagamba Kabudi
Samia Suluhu Hassan
Wang Ke
Wang Yi
Wilbert Ibuge
Xi Jinping

China, Tanzania
Beijing back in business in Dar es-Salaam post-Magufuli

With mega-port, railway and now industrial park projects in the pipeline, business between China and the new Tanzanian administration is picking up again after a long hiatus under John Magufuli.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Diplomacy 30.07.2021

Tanzania
Ex-president Jakaya Kikwete uses influence with Samia Suluhu Hassan to China's favour

Former Tanzanian head of state Jakaya Kikwete, who was sidelined during the presidency of John Magufuli, has become an unofficial adviser to new president Samia Suluhu Hassan. He has been pressing for China Merchants' giant Bagamoyo port project, blocked under Magufuli, to resume.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Politics 09.07.2021

Tanzania's former head of state Jakaya Kikwete with Tanzania's president Samia Suluhu Hassan.

Spotlight | Tanzania
President Hassan kick-starts her diplomatic service

Newly installed President Samia Suluhu Hassan has put career diplomats back in charge at the top of the foreign ministry. Although not much more than a symbolic departure from the Magufuli era, it has been enough to attract overseas delegations.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 14.05.2021

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

Tanzania
Newly installed Samia Suluhu Hassan makes Gen Venance Mabeyo her trusted ally

The new president's cabinet reshuffle may have looked like a mere game of musical chairs, but Samia Suluhu Hassan was in fact careful to distance people who were close to her late predecessor John Magufuli and to make the chief of army staff the guarantor of her administration.

Subscribers only Politics 05.04.2021

New Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

Tanzania
Dodoma's spymaster looks into leaks on Magufuli's last days

While the Tanzanian government was keeping a tight lid on president John Magufuli's state of health before his death was announced on 17 March, opposition leader Tundu Lissu published information said to have come from Tanzanian intelligence agents.

Subscribers only Politics 29.03.2021

Spotlight | Tanzania
Allies manoeuvre to shore up moribund regime of the late John Magufuli

The inner circle of the late Tanzanian leader had maintained a strict news blackout on his state of health to delay for as long as possible the elevation of the vice president to the top job.

Subscribers only Politics 19.03.2021

Former Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete and Tanzania's Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

France, Tanzania
Magufuli sends his foreign minister to Paris to drum up business

Specially dispatched by President John Magufuli, Tanzanian foreign minister Palamagamba Kabudi is due to arrive in France on 17 February.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 17.02.2021

Palamagamba Kabudi, Tanzania's Foreign Minister.

Tanzania
Xi Jinping hopes to get Bagamoyo mega-port back on track

On 7 and 8 January, the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will be trying to persuade Tanzanian president John Magufuli to resume construction works on the huge Bagamoyo deepwater port. Since he came to power, the project has been more or less constantly on hold.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Diplomacy 07.01.2021

Uganda
Frontrunner emerges in Fluor vs CB&I race for Total's Tilenga infrastructure contract

Fluor's lower bid is thought to have given it an edge over its rival, the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, for the vast works on the Lake Albert field. With an election round the corner, Museveni is keen for things to move quickly now.

Subscribers only Energy 19.11.2020

China, Tanzania
LingHang Group abandons its East Africa Logistic Center

China's LingHang Group logistics investment fund leaves Dar es Salaam to focus on Zanzibar as its east African gateway for Chinese industry.

Subscribers only Business 05.06.2020

Amina Salum Ali, Minister of Industry of Zanzibar, and Lisa Wang, President of the LingHang Group.

Spotlight | Tanzania
China's turn for a dose of Magufuli's medicine

With relations between the Tanzanian authorities and Western businesses already strained (ION 1456) due to a series of legal disputes (ION 1459), the highly nationalist president John Magufuli has now taken it upon himself to impose his own vision of [.

Subscribers only Business 03.11.2017

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Wang Yi
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Tanzania Newly installed Samia Suluhu Hassan makes Gen Venance Mabeyo her trusted ally

Tanzania Dodoma's spymaster looks into leaks on Magufuli's last days

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France, Tanzania Magufuli sends his foreign minister to Paris to drum up business

Tanzania Xi Jinping hopes to get Bagamoyo mega-port back on track

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Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

China, Tanzania
Beijing seeks fresh start after Magufuli's death

China, Tanzania
Beijing back in business in Dar es-Salaam post-Magufuli

Tanzania
Ex-president Jakaya Kikwete uses influence with Samia Suluhu Hassan to China's favour

Spotlight | Tanzania
President Hassan kick-starts her diplomatic service

Tanzania
Newly installed Samia Suluhu Hassan makes Gen Venance Mabeyo her trusted ally

Tanzania
Dodoma's spymaster looks into leaks on Magufuli's last days

Spotlight | Tanzania
Allies manoeuvre to shore up moribund regime of the late John Magufuli

France, Tanzania
Magufuli sends his foreign minister to Paris to drum up business

Tanzania
Xi Jinping hopes to get Bagamoyo mega-port back on track

Uganda
Frontrunner emerges in Fluor vs CB&I race for Total's Tilenga infrastructure contract

China, Tanzania
LingHang Group abandons its East Africa Logistic Center

Spotlight | Tanzania
China's turn for a dose of Magufuli's medicine