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Why would Mama Suluhu be so cosy as regional peace haven burns?

Tanzania’s President and CCM candidate Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during the party’s final campaign rally in Mwanza on October 28, 2025. [MICHAEL JAMSON / AFP]

Tanzania is emerging out of a chaotic and highly controlled and uncompetitive election.

Structural constraints on opposition candidates and aspirants by the State have rendered the entire exercise to be no more than electoral fiction.

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