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Tanzania will be holding local elections next month that are expected to offer a preview of how the presidential election will go in 2025. The ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has been in power for more than six decades. Now, however, the country’s main opposition
party, Chadema, is putting up one of the strongest challenges to this dominance. This has led to a crackdown on opposition voices. Tundu Lissu - one of Chadema’s leaders - has become the face of opposition following his unrelenting criticism of government repression. Nicodemus Minde tracks Lissu’s political rise.
Traditional methods of measuring poverty broadly classify people as rich or poor based on income thresholds. But poverty is about more than money. Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe explains that in Lagos slums, for instance, poverty is also about access to education, healthcare, clean water and decent living conditions.
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Nicodemus Minde, United States International University
Tundu Lissu’s persistence in tackling democratic backsliding in Tanzania has made him a formidable force.
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Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe, Crawford University
Classifying people as either ‘poor’ or ‘not poor’ based on income oversimplifies poverty.
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Kathryn Watt, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Chris Desmond, University of the Witwatersrand
Focusing on girls’ schooling may put boys at a disadvantage and be an inefficient way to reach gender equality.
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Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
Unless the economic benefits resulting from having the government of national unity become socially inclusive, it might well collapse.
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Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University
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Jamie Lingwood, Liverpool Hope University; Gemma Taylor, University of Salford
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Polly Rippon, University of Sheffield
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Tim Lindsey, The University of Melbourne
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