Tanzania swears in Samia Hassan as president, claiming 98% of vote - The World from PRX Today in a ceremony hidden from public view Tanzania swore in Samia Hassan for a second term as president. She won with a landslide 98% of the vote in an election that has sparked nationwide protests,...

"There are reports of mass graves. There are reports of the dead being taken off the street. There are reports of the dead being disappeared from hospitals"

The Terror unfolding in Tanzania @theworld.org

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Speaking now on this forum

Currently discussing: how will the next CCM succession battle play out in light of the protests and the crackdown?

Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.

President Hassan sought to strongarm the country’s election, meting out repression, violence, and arrests to anyone who dares challenge her. Tanzanians have seen enough.

Or thousands.

Tanzania: President Samia Hassan’s grip on power has been shaken by unprecedented protests The regime once seemed untouchable. Now anything feels possible.

Just out

The protests may be ebbing, but Tanzania will never be the same again

#Tanzania #IdiAminMama #Maandamano #Protest

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Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.

Something is happening in Tanzania

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My take in @jodemocracy.bsky.social

#Tanzania #idiaminmama #protest #maandamano #hatutakiccm

Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.

President Hassan sought to strongarm the country’s election, meting out repression, violence, and arrests to anyone who dares challenge her. Tanzanians have seen enough.

Has Tanzania reached its breaking point?

#Nokings drew *mad* crowds

It opens up a big question: what are the best messages to mobilise movements against autocrats?

Big news: that's exactly the question I will be asking in this €1.5 million project I will be running @sussex.ac.uk funded by the @erc.europa.eu

Details at www.danpaget.com

Luhaga Mpina: Tanzania’s Opposition Dreams Dies in Court - The Chanzo High Court’s final rejection of Mpina’s presidential challenge caps systematic dismantling of electoral competition, leaving President Samia facing token opposition in Tanzania’s October 29 poll.

This article in The Chanzo makes for bitter-sweet reading

Half op-ed
Half euology for a democracy never realised

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Tanzania’s Samia Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism: here’s how President Samia Hassan is relying on repressive tactics to eliminate her most significant competitors from the 2025 presidential race.

By putting @Lissu on trial and barring Mpina, Hassan has crossed new red lines

She is not becoming as repressive as Magufuli, but more so

My new analysis in @theconversation.com

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How do consulting giants enable state capture?

@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social talks to @devipillay.co.za on McKinsey’s role in South Africa, drawing on the Zondo Commission.
🔗Listen: bit.ly/KBspotify138
🔗Paper: lnkd.in/eczS5NAM

#StateCapture #SouthAfrica #AntiCorruption

The second talk of the our Politics A-Level Masterclass has begun @sussex.ac.uk

Prof. James Hampshire is approaching the subject of anarchism

He is doing so through the case of Rev Sue Parfitt, who was arrested for her supprt for Palestine Action

Emily is has moved on to active citizenship

She is grappling with: how has political participation in modern Britain declined, and why?

Emily is arguing that the Windrush Scandal threw into relief how ideas and practices about citizenship have changed over time

The Politics A-Level Masterclass at @sussex.ac.uk has begun!

Prof. Emily Robinson is speaking to school students who have come from near and far

She is speaking about democrayc and participation in modern Briain

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"For [Hassan], reform is an instrument, a means to 'reform-wash' autocracy…[she] will continue to parcel out just enough reform, crumb by crumb, to keep alive the possibility that more and better reforms are coming," write Dan Paget and Aikande Clement Kwayu.


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Tanzania’s president came into office promising democratic reforms but instead has relied on tried-and-true repressive tools, write Dan Paget and Aikande Clement Kwayu.

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"[President Hassan’s] intent is not the achievement of reform, but the impression of reform," write Dan Paget and Aikande Clement Kwayu.

Read "Tanzania’s Autocratic Reform-Washing" free here:
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"[President Hassan] and the regime benefit from the acclamation and renewed legitimacy that 'reform' brings, even as they try to withhold as much actual reform as possible."

"Tanzania’s Autocratic Reform-Washing" by Dan Paget and Aikande Clement Kwayu

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Tanzania’s Autocratic Reform-Washing | Journal of Democracy President Samia Suluhu Hassan came into office promising democratic reforms. Four years later, it is clear she is more of a performer than a reformer. Far from delivering on her promises to unwind…

New article!

Our argument: President Hassan of Tanzania isn't a reformer, she's a performer

Thanks to @jodemocracy.bsky.social for publishing

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Very proud to be published alongside the transcript of the Oslo speech by @mariastsehai.bsky.social‬

Tanzania’s Autocratic Reform-Washing | Journal of Democracy President Samia Suluhu Hassan came into office promising democratic reforms. Four years later, it is clear she is more of a performer than a reformer. Far from delivering on her promises to unwind…

New article!

Our argument: President Hassan of Tanzania isn't a reformer, she's a performer

Thanks to @jodemocracy.bsky.social for publishing

www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/tan...

Tanzania’s president came into office promising democratic reforms but instead has relied on tried-and-true repressive tools, write Dan Paget and Aikande Clement Kwayu.

"Tanzania’s Autocratic Reform-Washing"

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#FreeTunduLissu

What does popular resistance to corruption look like in an autocracy?

Recorded last week but all the more pertinent after the arrest of Tanzania’s opposition leader this week - a fascinating chat with the brilliant Dan Paget!

130. Daniel Paget on authoritarianism & resistance in Tanzania KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast · Episode

How do you make resisting autocracy seem urgent, rather than abstract?

The democracy movement in Tanzania has an answer

I talked it through with @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social on KickBack

(note: recorded before Tundu Lissu, mentioned, was charged with treason)

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Tundu Lissu: Tanzania opposition leader charged with treason He has been holding rallies nationwide saying October's elections cannot go ahead without reforms.

This is my first post on Bluesky!

I wanted it to be positive. I had something all lined up

But the leader of 🇹🇿 opposition, was just charged with treason

I have known him for a long time now

He's truly brave

Health and power to you, Tundu Lissu!

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