With death of Tanzania’s conservative president, China set to gain strategic port

With death of Tanzania’s conservative president, China set to gain strategic port

by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2021 Four months after the death of conservative President John Magufuli, Tanzania is moving to revive a project that will give communist China strategic port access to the African nation. After speaking by phone with Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping on July 17, Tanzania’s new president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, confirmed […]

Was Covid really to blame for the deaths of two populist African leaders?

Was Covid really to blame for the deaths of two populist African leaders?

Special to WorldTribune, March 31, 2021 Analysis by Eric Clary Part I: Tanzania’s Magufuli, 61: Downsized government, spurned China loans, defied LGBT lobby, March 24, 2021 Coronavirus allegations have clouded the deaths of at least two prominent African leaders. Most recently, popular Tanzanian populist John Magufuli allegedly succumbing to Covid-19 on March 17 this year. […]

Tanzania’s Magufuli, 61: Downsized government, spurned China loans, defied LGBT lobby

Tanzania’s Magufuli, 61: Downsized government, spurned China loans, defied LGBT lobby

Special to WorldTribune, March 24, 2021 Analysis by Eric Clary Tanzania’s former Populist President John Magufuli’s state funeral commenced on March 22 before throngs of supporters. The coronavirus lockdown critic made international headlines in May of 2020 when he made light of a popular COVID testing kit. Magufuli, a PhD chemist, embarrassed the medical establishment […]