Tanzania: Suluhu seeks to run ‘unopposed’ amid renewed political crackdown

Less than six months after Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated as Tanzania’s first female president in 2021, the country’s most famous cartoonist depicted her in a military general’s uniform under the title “Dictatoress.”

In the cartoon by Tanzanian-born Gado, drawn from his base in Kenya, where there is more press freedom, Hassan looks at her image in a mirror and sees herself holding a torch — perhaps of liberty — when, in fact,…