{"id":13382,"date":"2012-08-10T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T12:20:37","slug":"factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-political-risks-to-watch-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Political risks to watch in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Fumbuka Ng&#8217;wanakilala<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DAR ES SALAAM<\/span> Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Tanzania faces political<br \/>\nuncertainty in the months ahead after corruption allegations<br \/>\nwere levelled at some members of parliament and workers staged<br \/>\nstreet protests against rising living costs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following are the political risks to watch in the country.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>GRAFT ALLEGATIONS<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Parliament&#8217;s energy and minerals committee was disbanded<br \/>\nlast month following allegations of corruption against some of<br \/>\nits members. The committee is charged with overseeing the<br \/>\nmining, oil and gas sectors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aid donors and opposition leaders have questioned the<br \/>\ngovernment&#8217;s seriousness in its fight against corruption, and<br \/>\ninvestors have long complained of graft as one of the main<br \/>\nreasons for the high cost of doing business in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LABOUR UNREST<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Teachers went on strike last month to push for better pay,<br \/>\njoining doctors in demanding higher salaries as rising costs of<br \/>\nliving threaten to stoke social tensions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Discontent has increased among low-paid public workers,<br \/>\ncausing labour unrest in east Africa&#8217;s second-biggest economy,<br \/>\nand there are concerns these protests could widen further.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fumbuka Ng&#8217;wanakilala DAR ES SALAAM Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Tanzania faces political uncertainty in the months ahead after corruption allegations were levelled at some members of parliament and workers staged street protests against rising living costs. Following are the political risks to watch in the country. GRAFT ALLEGATIONS Parliament&#8217;s energy and minerals committee was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}