Port deal outrage sends Samia and CCM to early campaigns

The port management deal between Tanzania and a Dubai company is giving President Samia Suluhu and the ruling party Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) sleepless nights as opposition mounts campaigns to milk political mileage out of it.

And ahead of the next elections cycle which begins next year, the President who has enjoyed virtually unchallenged public support in her two years at the helm, is now facing an outrage over claims that she surrendered the country’s prime assets to foreigners. There has been unrelenting public skepticism over how the deal's conditions may impact Tanzania's control over its ports.