Tanzania 2023: Can political stability bolster economic growth 

Politics in Tanzania are now taking a different shape compared to the past five years. Opposition parties in Tanzania, such as CHADEMA  and ACT are collaborating with the main leading party CCM to put the nation in the right economic boost trajectory. Over the past two decades, East Africa has witnessed how political instability has dealt a blow to economic growth. During the 2007/2008 post-election violence in Kenya, the country recorded its worst economic performance. The ripple effects spread to neigbouring countries of Uganda and as far as Rwanda and DRC.   Tanzania had its own political turmoil between 2015 and 2020 where human rights and press freedom were often infringement.  However, Tanzania, which has ambitions of becoming an industry-driven economy, is tuning its economic pro-growth policies in the right way to attract the necessary investors and environment for sustainable development.  This economic vision is now being backed by President Samia Suluhu Hassan who is reversing the hardline stand her predecessor had taken.   In an unprecedented move, President Suluhu is expanding Tanzania’s democratic space by inviting the opposition parties to discuss the future of the nation.   During the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Suluhu’s message was; ‘hello world, we