John Magufuli is fostering a climate of fear in Tanzania
The EU has recalled its ambassador from the country amid deepening repression
PAUL MAKONDA seems a lot more like a flailing moral crusader than the regional commissioner of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial capital. The 36-year-old has come up with a variety of schemes to catch the eye of his patron, President John Magufuli. One is clamping down on supposed vices such as smoking shisha and sleeping in past 8am. His latest pledge, to set up a homophobic “surveillance squad” to track down those guilty of homosexuality, which is illegal, is by far his nastiest.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The big squeeze”
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