Tanzania; political stability attract French investors

[french]

FRENCH Ambassador in Tanzania, Frédéric Clavier

FRENCH Ambassador in Tanzania, Frédéric Clavier, has assured Tanzanians that his country is fully committed to continuing investing in the country's big projects, due to the current political stability and flourishing economy.

The ambassador said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that Tan- zania's economy was not only strong in the East African region, but in the continent as well."France is ready to support President John Magufuli's industrialisation drive and the France business community is confident with the future of this country," added the envoy.

Mr Clavier was speaking at a joint media briefing on the sidelines of the second Tanzania- France Business Forum which was organised by Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) and MEDEF International, the French Business Confederation.

The French delegation from over 35 business companies is in the country to explore various business opportunities, after an invitation by the Tanzanian Ambassador in France, Mr Samwel Shelukindo.

According to Mr Shelukindo, following Dr Magufuli's directive to all envoys representing Tanzania outside the country to capital- ise on economic diplomacy, he managed to invite more French investors to come to Tanzania and grab various investment opportunities.

My take
Magufuli is really smart. He doesnt travel he's working from home and it is fine

 

[BAK]

There is no political stability in Tanzania, that is a PURE LIE!!!

 

[Emc2]

There is no political stability in Tanzania, that is a PURE LIE!!!

Unasema hayo wewe kama nani?
Huu ni msumari mkali kuwaoneesha wakenya kuwa TOTAL na ujenzi wa bomba la mafuta toka Hoima mpaka Tanga unatekelezwa kwa kishindo.

 

[Mkikuyu- Akili timamu]

There is no political stability in Tanzania, that is a PURE LIE!!!

You are personally politicaly unstable. Wengine wako sawa

 

[BAK]

Tanzania opposition leader blames president after shooting
Tundu Lissu says John Magufuli is trying to turn country into a dictatorship

President John Magufuli is known as 'The Bulldozer' © AFP

November 28, 2017 4:00 am by John Aglionby in Nairobi
Seconds after two armed men leapt from a car that had been following Tundu Lissu for three weeks, the Tanzanian opposition leader was being thrown to the floor by his driver as they sought to survive a hail of bullets.

“All hell broke loose,” says Mr Lissu, chief whip of the Chadema party. “I have been told, because I couldn’t count, that 38 bullets hit my car and out of those something like 16 hit me.”

Speaking in his first interview since the attack outside his flat in the capital Dodoma in September, Mr Lissu, one of the most vocal critics of the government, believes he was the target of an assassination attempt. And he blames president John Magufuli, alleging that it is evidence of what the opposition leader describes as a campaign to turn “the country into a dictatorship”.


“He [Magufuli] wants to crush the political parties, crush the press, crush organised civil society and the trade union and silence the church,” Mr Lissu told the Financial Times in Kenya, where he is receiving medical treatment. “Every independent centre of power should be made to comply with the demands of the big man.”

Assassinations are rare in the east African nation and the president described the attack on Mr Lissu as “barbaric”. The police have announced no progress in the investigation despite the attack taking place in a compound that Mr Lissu says was equipped with CCTV.

Hassan Abbas, a government spokesman, says Mr Lissu’s allegations are “misplaced”.

“If anyone, including Mr Lissu, has any further evidence let him share [it] with investigators,” Mr Abbas says. “Tanzania is known for its unmatched peaceful and democratic political processes which are conducted according to the laws.”

But the allegations against the president come as he faces mounting criticism for stifling democratic debate.

Zitto Kabwe, leader of the opposition Alliance for Change and Transparency party, was arrested four weeks ago for questioning official macroeconomic statistics; the electoral commission has banned discussion of national issues during campaigning for 43 council by-elections on Sunday; and four newspapers have been shut in recent months for criticising the president.

“By his own admission [Mr Magufuli] doesn’t believe in multi-party democracy,” Mr Kabwe says. “He sees parties as annoyances, including his own party. He wants to rule with no encumbrances. He prefers to rule in an autocratic way.”

The motive for the attack on Mr Lissu was “to keep us quiet”, Mr Kabwe adds.

Mr Magufuli, whose nickname is “The Bulldozer”, came to power two years ago promising to stamp out endemic corruption and drive economic growth. He has been widely praised, including by Mr Lissu, for clamping down on graft but strongly criticised for what his opponents say are autocratic tendencies.

Mr Lissu, who has been charged six times this year — including with sedition — after criticising Mr Magufuli, says he survived the shooting because the bullets missed his torso and “hit me on the backside big time”. He has had 12 operations and is still bed-ridden but can sit up.

“He’s managed to beat us up real bad,” he says, referring to the president’s crackdown on dissent. “The way Magufuli is, his temperament, his personality, his recent actions, he’s turning the country into a dictatorship.

Tundu Lissu says he was shot 16 times © AFP
“But we have one ace; he’s so good at making enemies. He’s made enemies with everyone. And we can use this against him.”

Mr Lissu says the opposition was also benefiting from “Magunomics”, his description for the president’s economic policies.

“He’s trying to take us back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s when the government would control every productive activity,” says Mr Lissu, who is also president of the Tanganyika Law Society. “The private sector has suffered so much under him.”

The highest profile target has been Acacia Mining, the London-listed company that was fined $190bn for alleged underpaid tax. Akiko Dangote, Africa’s richest man who has built a cement plant in Tanzania, accused Mr Magufuli last month of scaring away investors.

The World Bank echoed that sentiment. This month the bank called on the government to “urgently implement measures to enable and encourage the private sector to play a more significant role in Tanzania’s development”.

You are personally politicaly unstable. Wengine wako sawa

 

[Emc2]

Tanzania opposition leader blames president after shooting
Tundu Lissu says John Magufuli is trying to turn country into a dictatorship

President John Magufuli is known as 'The Bulldozer' © AFP

November 28, 2017 4:00 am by John Aglionby in Nairobi
Seconds after two armed men leapt from a car that had been following Tundu Lissu for three weeks, the Tanzanian opposition leader was being thrown to the floor by his driver as they sought to survive a hail of bullets.

“All hell broke loose,” says Mr Lissu, chief whip of the Chadema party. “I have been told, because I couldn’t count, that 38 bullets hit my car and out of those something like 16 hit me.”

Speaking in his first interview since the attack outside his flat in the capital Dodoma in September, Mr Lissu, one of the most vocal critics of the government, believes he was the target of an assassination attempt. And he blames president John Magufuli, alleging that it is evidence of what the opposition leader describes as a campaign to turn “the country into a dictatorship”.


“He [Magufuli] wants to crush the political parties, crush the press, crush organised civil society and the trade union and silence the church,” Mr Lissu told the Financial Times in Kenya, where he is receiving medical treatment. “Every independent centre of power should be made to comply with the demands of the big man.”

Assassinations are rare in the east African nation and the president described the attack on Mr Lissu as “barbaric”. The police have announced no progress in the investigation despite the attack taking place in a compound that Mr Lissu says was equipped with CCTV.

Hassan Abbas, a government spokesman, says Mr Lissu’s allegations are “misplaced”.

“If anyone, including Mr Lissu, has any further evidence let him share [it] with investigators,” Mr Abbas says. “Tanzania is known for its unmatched peaceful and democratic political processes which are conducted according to the laws.”

But the allegations against the president come as he faces mounting criticism for stifling democratic debate.

Zitto Kabwe, leader of the opposition Alliance for Change and Transparency party, was arrested four weeks ago for questioning official macroeconomic statistics; the electoral commission has banned discussion of national issues during campaigning for 43 council by-elections on Sunday; and four newspapers have been shut in recent months for criticising the president.

“By his own admission [Mr Magufuli] doesn’t believe in multi-party democracy,” Mr Kabwe says. “He sees parties as annoyances, including his own party. He wants to rule with no encumbrances. He prefers to rule in an autocratic way.”

The motive for the attack on Mr Lissu was “to keep us quiet”, Mr Kabwe adds.

Mr Magufuli, whose nickname is “The Bulldozer”, came to power two years ago promising to stamp out endemic corruption and drive economic growth. He has been widely praised, including by Mr Lissu, for clamping down on graft but strongly criticised for what his opponents say are autocratic tendencies.

Mr Lissu, who has been charged six times this year — including with sedition — after criticising Mr Magufuli, says he survived the shooting because the bullets missed his torso and “hit me on the backside big time”. He has had 12 operations and is still bed-ridden but can sit up.

“He’s managed to beat us up real bad,” he says, referring to the president’s crackdown on dissent. “The way Magufuli is, his temperament, his personality, his recent actions, he’s turning the country into a dictatorship.

Tundu Lissu says he was shot 16 times © AFP
“But we have one ace; he’s so good at making enemies. He’s made enemies with everyone. And we can use this against him.”

Mr Lissu says the opposition was also benefiting from “Magunomics”, his description for the president’s economic policies.

“He’s trying to take us back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s when the government would control every productive activity,” says Mr Lissu, who is also president of the Tanganyika Law Society. “The private sector has suffered so much under him.”

The highest profile target has been Acacia Mining, the London-listed company that was fined $190bn for alleged underpaid tax. Akiko Dangote, Africa’s richest man who has built a cement plant in Tanzania, accused Mr Magufuli last month of scaring away investors.

The World Bank echoed that sentiment. This month the bank called on the government to “urgently implement measures to enable and encourage the private sector to play a more significant role in Tanzania’s development”.

Blaming!!? Je mlienda kushitaki mahakamani? Kwanini msiende mahakamani?
Kama wewe hauko stable usitake na wengine waamini hivyo.

 

[eliakeem]

There is no political stability in Tanzania, that is a PURE LIE!!!

Your perception and psychology tell you that.

 

[eliakeem]

There is no political stability in Tanzania, that is a PURE LIE!!!

Tena usitake kutuambukiza. MAANA wewe na mambe kimangi mna ugonjwa wa kuogopa VITU vya kufikirika. Wanaweza wakatunga KITU, halafu wakaanza kujenga hofu kwao na kwa wengine.

 

[Mwanzi1]

There is no political stability in Tanzania, that is a PURE LIE!!!

Elewa nini maana ya political stability Kabla ya kuchangia mada.

 

[mulisaaa]

There is no political stability in Tanzania, that is a PURE LIE!!!

Show me the instability. Are you talking the one of Mangekimabi ??

 

[DENLSON]

Hapo tafsiri yake ni kuwa France wameona fursa ya kuiba kirahisi huko tuendapo, France wanapenda nchi zisizo na amani na kama wanasema mazingira ya kisiasa yanavutia maana yake wamenusa harufu ya instability huko mbele, Hawa hawafai kuwa na urafiki nao kivyovyote rejea nchi zote ambazo France ana influence zote hazina amani ya kudumu. Hawa ni chanzo cha machafuko Afrika Magharibi, Congo, Afrika ya Kati na nchi nyingi duniani

 

[mulisaaa]

Tanzania opposition leader blames president after shooting
Tundu Lissu says John Magufuli is trying to turn country into a dictatorship

President John Magufuli is known as 'The Bulldozer' © AFP

November 28, 2017 4:00 am by John Aglionby in Nairobi
Seconds after two armed men leapt from a car that had been following Tundu Lissu for three weeks, the Tanzanian opposition leader was being thrown to the floor by his driver as they sought to survive a hail of bullets.

“All hell broke loose,” says Mr Lissu, chief whip of the Chadema party. “I have been told, because I couldn’t count, that 38 bullets hit my car and out of those something like 16 hit me.”

Speaking in his first interview since the attack outside his flat in the capital Dodoma in September, Mr Lissu, one of the most vocal critics of the government, believes he was the target of an assassination attempt. And he blames president John Magufuli, alleging that it is evidence of what the opposition leader describes as a campaign to turn “the country into a dictatorship”.


“He [Magufuli] wants to crush the political parties, crush the press, crush organised civil society and the trade union and silence the church,” Mr Lissu told the Financial Times in Kenya, where he is receiving medical treatment. “Every independent centre of power should be made to comply with the demands of the big man.”

Assassinations are rare in the east African nation and the president described the attack on Mr Lissu as “barbaric”. The police have announced no progress in the investigation despite the attack taking place in a compound that Mr Lissu says was equipped with CCTV.

Hassan Abbas, a government spokesman, says Mr Lissu’s allegations are “misplaced”.

“If anyone, including Mr Lissu, has any further evidence let him share [it] with investigators,” Mr Abbas says. “Tanzania is known for its unmatched peaceful and democratic political processes which are conducted according to the laws.”

But the allegations against the president come as he faces mounting criticism for stifling democratic debate.

Zitto Kabwe, leader of the opposition Alliance for Change and Transparency party, was arrested four weeks ago for questioning official macroeconomic statistics; the electoral commission has banned discussion of national issues during campaigning for 43 council by-elections on Sunday; and four newspapers have been shut in recent months for criticising the president.

“By his own admission [Mr Magufuli] doesn’t believe in multi-party democracy,” Mr Kabwe says. “He sees parties as annoyances, including his own party. He wants to rule with no encumbrances. He prefers to rule in an autocratic way.”

The motive for the attack on Mr Lissu was “to keep us quiet”, Mr Kabwe adds.

Mr Magufuli, whose nickname is “The Bulldozer”, came to power two years ago promising to stamp out endemic corruption and drive economic growth. He has been widely praised, including by Mr Lissu, for clamping down on graft but strongly criticised for what his opponents say are autocratic tendencies.

Mr Lissu, who has been charged six times this year — including with sedition — after criticising Mr Magufuli, says he survived the shooting because the bullets missed his torso and “hit me on the backside big time”. He has had 12 operations and is still bed-ridden but can sit up.

“He’s managed to beat us up real bad,” he says, referring to the president’s crackdown on dissent. “The way Magufuli is, his temperament, his personality, his recent actions, he’s turning the country into a dictatorship.

Tundu Lissu says he was shot 16 times © AFP
“But we have one ace; he’s so good at making enemies. He’s made enemies with everyone. And we can use this against him.”

Mr Lissu says the opposition was also benefiting from “Magunomics”, his description for the president’s economic policies.

“He’s trying to take us back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s when the government would control every productive activity,” says Mr Lissu, who is also president of the Tanganyika Law Society. “The private sector has suffered so much under him.”

The highest profile target has been Acacia Mining, the London-listed company that was fined $190bn for alleged underpaid tax. Akiko Dangote, Africa’s richest man who has built a cement plant in Tanzania, accused Mr Magufuli last month of scaring away investors.

The World Bank echoed that sentiment. This month the bank called on the government to “urgently implement measures to enable and encourage the private sector to play a more significant role in Tanzania’s development”.

Tupatie evidence.

 

[mulisaaa]

Hapo tafsiri yake ni kuwa France wameona fursa ya kuiba kirahisi huko tuendapo, France wanapenda nchi zisizo na amani na kama wanasema mazingira ya kisiasa yanavutia maana yake wamenusa harufu ya instability huko mbele, Hawa hawafai kuwa na urafiki nao kivyovyote rejea nchi zote ambazo France ana influence zote hazina amani ya kudumu. Hawa ni chanzo cha machafuko Afrika Magharibi, Congo, Afrika ya Kati na nchi nyingi duniani

Tanzania ni zaidi ya Ufaransa. Tanzania anaemsimamia kwa karibu ni China na Russia

 

[BAK]

Acha kukurupuka wewe! Nchi yenye political stability katiba haikanyagwi, uhuru wa vyombo vya habari hauminywi na maamuzi mahakama huheshimiwa na pia Bunge huheshimiwa. Na raia hawauawi kwa kuikosoa serikali au waandishi kuandika ukweli kuhusu yanayojiri nchini lakini wakaishia kupotea.

Elewa nini maana ya political stability Kabla ya kuchangia mada.

 

[Mwanzi1]

Acha kukurupuka wewe! Nchi yenye political stability katiba haikanyagwi, uhuru wa vyombo vya habari hauminywi na maamuzi mahakama huheshimiwa na pia Bunge huheshimiwa. Na raia hawauawi kwa kuikosoa serikali au waandishi kuandika ukweli kuhusu yanayojiri nchini lakini wakaishia kupotea.

Politics stability haihusiani na usalama wa mtu mmoja mmoja au mwanasiasa. Political stability inahusiana na kuwa na lugha moja, utamaduni mmoja, utambulisho wa nchi na watu wake wamoja. Wewe unachanganya political stability na individual cases of miscarriage of justice. Hayo ni mambo mawili tofauti. Ukienda South Africa, au America wana political stability iliyo juu lakini miscarriage of justice iko chini kutoka na usalama wa individuals kuwa chini. Hiyo haizuwii wawekezaji kuja kuwekeza, unachobisha hapa hakiendani na mada husika. Tanzania is politics stable country because we have one language, one nation, one civil identity.

 

[Drifter]

Naona wafaransa wanatafuta koloni jingine rahisi rahisi baada ya kutolewa nje na watemi kama Rwanda.

 

[eliakeem]

Politics stability haihusiani na usalama wa mtu mmoja mmoja au mwanasiasa. Political stability inahusiana na kuwa na lugha moja, utamaduni mmoja, utambulisho wa nchi na watu wake wamoja. Wewe unachanganya political stability na individual cases of miscarriage of justice. Hayo ni mambo mawili tofauti. Ukienda South Africa, au America wana political stability iliyo juu lakini miscarriage of justice iko chini kutoka na usalama wa individuals kuwa chini. Hiyo haizuwii wawekezaji kuja kuwekeza, unachobisha hapa hakiendani na mada husika. Tanzania is politics stable country because we have one language, one nation, one civil identity.

You nailed it. At individual level security is a bit not good. Kuna majambazi wanavamia watu as an isolated incidents. Hata ulaya na marekani inatokea sana. Mfano UFARANSA KUNA magaidi walipiga risasi watu, Ujerumani mmoja aligonga watu wengi na roli, marekani askari wanapiga risasi weusi, watoto kufyatuliwa risasi mashuleni n.k.

Political instability ni KAMA Kenya yenye marais wawili, Burundi coup de tat, kongo wapiganaji wa msituni.

 

[Mwanzi1]

You nailed it. At individual level security is a bit not good. Kuna majambazi wanavamia watu as an isolated incidents. Hata ulaya na marekani inatokea sana. Mfano UFARANSA KUNA magaidi walipiga risasi watu, Ujerumani mmoja aligonga watu wengi na roli, marekani askari wanapiga risasi weusi, watoto kufyatuliwa risasi mashuleni n.k.

Political instability ni KAMA Kenya yenye marais wawili, Burundi coup de tat, kongo wapiganaji wa msituni.

Haha, nimependa mfano wako wa Kenya. But on serious note, usalama wa raia mmoja mmoja haizuwii uwekezaji wa wakubwa na wa muda mrefu. Kuna kampuni kubwa duniani wanakimbilia kuwekeza Iraq na Afghanistan, kampuni hizo ukiwaambia waje nchi kama Tanzania wanaona ni paradise.

 

[baro]

Unasema hayo wewe kama nani?
Huu ni msumari mkali kuwaoneesha wakenya kuwa TOTAL na ujenzi wa bomba la mafuta toka Hoima mpaka Tanga unatekelezwa kwa kishindo.

Watakufa na kihoro hao jamaa mbinu zao za kishetani zimeshindwa

Sasa mtu anabishana na balozi wa ufaransa huyo ni timamu kweli ?

Acha roho ziwapasuke

 

[joto la jiwe]

Acha kukurupuka wewe! Nchi yenye political stability katiba haikanyagwi, uhuru wa vyombo vya habari hauminywi na maamuzi mahakama huheshimiwa na pia Bunge huheshimiwa. Na raia hawauawi kwa kuikosoa serikali au waandishi kuandika ukweli kuhusu yanayojiri nchini lakini wakaishia kupotea.

Kidunia Tanzania ipo namba 54, Kenya namba 125, hivi ni vigezo vya kidunia, wewe unatumia vigezo gani?, au unatumia vigezo vya mitaani?. Haya tuambie wewe katika vigezo vya amani na utulivu duniani Tanzania iko katika nafasi ipi?