Samia Suluhu Hassan

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In office; declared winner of the October 2025 election with 98 percent

Tundu Lissu is serving four years for incitement after a three-judge panel in Dar es Salaam acquitted him of treason on November 6, 2026. He had spent 577 days in custody before the verdict, most of it at Ukonga Prison.

Updated 2 days ago

Built World

In office

Tanzania signed a $1.2 billion commercial loan on November 4 to build a 411-kilometre electrified railway from Tabora to Kigoma, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. Nine banks provided the money. An $800 million partial credit guarantee from the African Development Bank covers $720 million of the lending if Tanzania defaults.

Updated 2 days ago

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Announced the rail agreement on October 30, 2026

Tanzania and Angola's October 30 plan to link the Benguela Railway to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway still has no route, cost estimate or named financier. The Atlantic half of the route moved ahead without it.

Updated 3 days ago