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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Robert Rotberg said it was difficult to single out Sumaye’s accomplishments as prime minister because they were tied to the accomplishments of former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, though he did note that Tanzania remained a parliamentary democracy and increased its developmental potential while Sumaye and Mkapa were in office...
...exploitation and then indifference," he said at the World Economic Forum's Africa summit in Cape Town earlier this month. "There is across the world a new awareness of the moral reprehensibility of what we have allowed to happen in Africa." There is also self-interest. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa points out that disease and despair will hurt the rich world by driving illegal immigration and the dissemination of killer germs if left unchecked. "You can't build a fire wall around Africa and expect its problems not to spread," Mkapa said at the meeting. But the rich world...
...London-based NGO Global Witness. Yearsley, who joined a panel to discuss the role of business in conflict at the World Economic Forum's Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town last week, says that "predatory looting of Africa's ocean assets" could destabilize already fragile societies. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa says there is "a lot of resentment among people who see themselves left with the scales and bones while all the fish flesh is taken away to Europe." Conflict fish, anyone? - By Simon Robinson Read All Over It has been an extraordinarily positive 12 months for the global newspaper industry...
Debt relief may sound boring, a topic best relegated to policy wonks and academics. But of late, the subject has seemed almost, well, sexy. At the annual meeting of world leaders at Davos, Switzerland, in January, one of the most exciting moments followed an impassioned speech by President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, who proclaimed that his country can do nothing about poverty so long as it is burdened with heavy debt payments. Sharon Stone leaped to her feet and called for the stunned audience to help--and promptly raised some $100,000. But after the stars fade from the headlines...
...Kenya, the white wigs worn by jurists of the Common Law have gone. But for every picture of Queen Elizabeth II that decorated the walls of Tanganyika five decades ago, there is at least one picture of Tanzania’s current leader, the less graceful Benjamin Mkapa, today...