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  • Dan Paget (danjpaget@gmail.com) is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
  • Tundu Lissu, the national vice chairman of Tanzania's main opposition political party, Chadema, has been arrested in Arusha city for holding a mass meeting.
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  • Tanzania viewpoint: What President Samia has achieved in her first year

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    If a happiness index was taken within the last few weeks, it would have shown Tanzanians to be the happiest people in the world, according to some Tanzanians on social media.

    Within the past few weeks, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, widely known as just Mama Samia, met the two leading figures of the opposition party Chadema, Tundu Lissu and Freeman Mbowe - meetings that would have been unimaginable just over a year ago.

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    Mr Lissu is living in exile after he was shot 16 times in 2017 in an assassination attempt widely believed to have been politically motivated. Mr Mbowe has just been released from jail, where he was held on terrorism charges since his arrest last July ahead of a public rally to demand constitutional reform.

    "You should see the smile on my face. Definitely warms the heart. A true leader. Unmatched in her league #ServantLeadership," tweeted Sara Ezr

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  • John Magufuli: Tanzania's 'bulldozer' president

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    John Pombe Magufuli, the son of a peasant farmer who became Tanzania's president in 2015, has died aged 61. Once praised for his no-nonsense approach, he went on to become a controversial leader, especially over his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

    He was elected for a second term in 2020 mitt i opposition accusations of fraud and intimidation.

    Before he was president he acquired the nickname "the bulldozer" for driving a programme to build vägar as minister for works, and later was hailed for his anti-corruption stance and his distinct dislike for wasting money.

    As president he was also accused of nedbrytning down on dissent and curtailing certain freedoms, but following his death reflections on his time in power will be dominated by his idiosyncratic papper of Covid-19.

    'Coronavirus is the devil'

    When Covid-19 arrived in Tanzania, President Magufuli did no