How will Samia Suluhu Hassan change Tanzania?

Published: April 16, 2021, 1 a.m.

Tanzania\u2019s new President seems to be taking the country in a new direction. She\u2019s the only woman running an African country, having replaced John Pombe Magufuli, a popular leader in Tanzania, who died in March. Within the first week of taking office, she set up a taskforce to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. The severity of the virus had been downplayed by the man she succeeds. And she\u2019s also allowed some media outlets that had been censored to reopen. \n \nShe\u2019s signing big deals with her neighbours too! In her first state visit to Uganda, she launched a billion-dollar project with President Museveni, setting up the fuel pipeline that will run between the two countries. A project she hopes will bring jobs and prosperity to the East African community. In Africa Daily Alan Kasujja has been finding out how\u2019s she\u2019s doing.