On December 9th 2025, the people of Tanzania spoke more powerfully than the government expected. They did not need large crowds or dramatic clashes to express disapproval. Their message came through a national shutdown so complete that it turned...
A Baby in Flight and the Truth Behind a Signature
In the first week of December, as three presidents smiled for cameras in Washington, a young mother named Aline Sambuka was running for her life in South Kivu. She clutched...
Entrepreneur Jenifer “Niffer” Jovin and Pan Africanist Mika Chavala walked free on December 3, 2025, after treason charges against them were suddenly withdrawn by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Their release has been framed as a routine prosecutorial decision,...
There are moments in a nation’s history when a single life becomes a mirror, forcing an entire people to confront who they have become. The murder of 18-year-old Maria Mathew is one such moment. She was not a criminal....
In Mbeya, south-western Tanzania, near the borders with Zambia and Malaw, a man’s tired voice is echoing across Tanzania.
“I am tired. Your father Clemence Mwandambo. I am tired. Because all of you are my children. Bye bye. I have...
Tanzania is standing on a political fault line. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has appointed her daughter Wanu Hafidh Ameir as Deputy Minister for Education and her son-in-law Mohamed Mchengerwa as Minister for Health in her new cabinet. These are...
We, the African People, are forming the African People’s Commission of Inquiry (APCI) on the Tanzania Massacre because the dead are being buried twice.
First, they were buried under live bullets, tear gas and state terror after the 29 October...
The Day the Earth Swallowed Futures
What happened in Kalando was not a tragedy of nature. It was a failure of duty. Dozens of miners died when a makeshift bridge at the copper and cobalt site collapsed under a panicked...
The story does not begin with a border dispute, a separatist march or a government crisis. It begins with a private jet descending quietly over the hills of the Eastern Cape, a stretch of South Africa so neglected that...
What is unfolding in Tanzania in the aftermath of the post election massacre is not just a struggle between citizens and the state. It can become a deeper moral fracture between the country’s two largest religious communities. In the...
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