{"id":8850,"date":"2012-03-13T03:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T03:07:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:28","slug":"factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-key-political-risks-to-watch-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Key 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, March 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Tanzania&#8217;s<br \/>\ngovernment faces demands for higher public sector salaries as<br \/>\nthe rising cost of living threatens to fan social tensions in<br \/>\neast Africa&#8217;s second-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economic growth could rebound to 7 percent in 2011\/12,<br \/>\nhelped by recovery of the global economy, but strong growth over<br \/>\nthe past decade has failed to end poverty in Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nfourth-biggest gold producer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>POLITICAL REFORM<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Jakaya Kikwete is soon expected to appoint a team<br \/>\nto review the constitution, and has pledged that the new treaty<br \/>\nwill be in place within the next two years.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The president has held meetings with opposition parties and<br \/>\ncivil society groups, hoping to reach broad consensus on<br \/>\npolitical reform.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some politicians in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM)<br \/>\nparty are reluctant to make sweeping changes to a system that<br \/>\nthe party has benefited from since independence from Britain in<br \/>\n1961.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Activists say the country&#8217;s main law, adopted in 1977 under<br \/>\none-party rule, favours the long-dominant CCM party, denying<br \/>\ncitizens fundamental rights and liberties.<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, March 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Tanzania&#8217;s government faces demands for higher public sector salaries as the rising cost of living threatens to fan social tensions in east Africa&#8217;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 [&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-8850","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\/8850","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=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}