Causes, effects will not let Samia rest until she does the done thing
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 5, 2026.
As October 29 continues to reverberate in Tanzanian political circles, it becomes clearer every day that the ruling clique are still missing the forest for the trees —that is to say they are lost in futile tactical manoeuvres that are taking them round and round, rather than attempting a strategic gambit to gain ground, not just time.
What are the trees and what is the forest? The trees are the individual questions that abound everywhere—important issues, for sure, but with limited value at strategic level—whereas the forest is the sum total of the environment in which one is evolving and in which matters are intricately knotted together as to make them systemic and involving in their disentanglement.
