👥 Samia Suluhu breaks free from CCM

The new Tanzanian president has chosen a number of her former collaborators as her close advisers at the president's office. Young and highly qualified academically, they also have in common the fact that they are not products of the CCM, the party which has been in power since the country became independent....

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