By Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala
DAR ES SALAAM, March 12 (Reuters) – Tanzania’s
government faces demands for higher public sector salaries as
the rising cost of living threatens to fan social tensions in
east Africa’s second-biggest economy.
Economic growth could rebound to 7 percent in 2011/12,
helped by recovery of the global economy, but strong growth over
the past decade has failed to end poverty in Africa’s
fourth-biggest gold producer.
POLITICAL REFORM
President Jakaya Kikwete is soon expected to appoint a team
to review the constitution, and has pledged that the new treaty
will be in place within the next two years.
The president has held meetings with opposition parties and
civil society groups, hoping to reach broad consensus on
political reform.
Some politicians in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM)
party are reluctant to make sweeping changes to a system that
the party has benefited from since independence from Britain in
1961.
Activists say the country’s main law, adopted in 1977 under
one-party rule, favours the long-dominant CCM party, denying
citizens fundamental rights and liberties.
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