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 By John Njoroge:  The ruling party and President John Pombe Magufuli are both leading by far (update: final results are now out, see an update note at the end of the article), trailing the weak opposition in Tanzania following the 28th October General elections.              President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania As usual, as the results were pouring out, the oppostion parties, activists and western propaganda machination, all over, resorted to one simple phallacy; whether the election was free and fair. Actually I heard the opposition rejecting the results on the basis of some irregularities.  Let me address that first before I share what I believe to be the reasons for weaker oppostion this time around in Tanzania.  The term free and fair has no one meaning in electoral governance across the world; countries abhor diverse socio-political systems and so is how they manage their elections. The fact that all political parties too...

By Allan Fisher, Montreal 9/26 /2020:  AMERICAN’s House of Representatives’ resolution 1120  on Tanzania deserves a  special place in the smelliest trash  bin . Without realizing the changed times in our space, the resolution is archaic and  disgraceful . I was enraged when my eyes scanned it. This is what Mandela warned that Americans can never qualify to police the world. We have many similar examples. This time again, they are releasing a stupid resolution to thwart Tanzania from exercising accountability over its natural resources. This is the issues at stake. This  silly  resolution on Tanzania, a beacon of stability in sub-Saharan Africa, needs to be rubbished and quashed as a piece of used toilet tissues. Not in this time and space. The demands are uncivilized and dangerous on the freedom and prosperous of any African nation leave alone the developing world.  Tanzania is the  rich est African nation in natural resources. It also has...

By John Njoroge, SANDTON, SA.  Dr. John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania As a keen follower of Tanzanian politics, since my days in Nairobi, Kenya, I can attest to have seen so much challenges facing Tanzania's guest for development. As he launched his campaign for reelection in 2020 in the country's Capital Dodoma, Tanzania, on Saturday, President John Pombe Magufuli is believed to be the best positioned Candidate to win the election. He is accredited as a man of reforms. The Mining sector reforms in Tanzania, foristamce ,  just like elsewhere in the world ,  relate to the whole of  natural resources governance and is one of his major scorecards.  According to the OECD (2011) task force  n atural resources report , both renewable and non-renewable,  as well as  ecosystem services are part of the real wealth of nations such that they uniquely form   the natural capital out of which other forms of capital are made.  Government s  and refor...