TANZANIA: REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT POLICY RISKS CREATING A CORONAVIRUS INCUBATOR COUNTRY

   Tue, 23 February 2021

Although Tanzania’s government has refused to lock down its economy or restrict border access over the past 11 months, the East African country now threatens to become a coronavirus incubator posing wider risks to regional trade and tourism. The past year’s strategy to withhold information on the coronavirus and to silence critics of the government’s COVID-19 policy seems to have been adapted from its political repression and electoral manipulation tactics.

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