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Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan is under criticism following the torture and forcible deportation of Kenyan and Ugandan activists Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire two weeks ago. [Courtesy]
President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania appears determined to frustrate opposition leaders through trumped-up charges, their arbitrary arrests and the torture of civil society activists.
Political analysts think her aim is to stifle chances of the opposition mounting a credible challenge to her and the ruling CCM party’s grasp on power, akin to what Kenya's former ruling party Kanu used to do during the single-party era.
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