How Magufuli altered Tanzania’s Foreign Policy

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A fundamental change that President Magufuli sought to achieve, as far as the strategic direction of Tanzania’s foreign policy is concerned, was to stir the country away from a nation that benefited from a great deal of goodwill, based on its gradual embrace of liberal democracy. It seems his aim was to substitute the dominant currency of engagement with friends of Tanzania - ‘ideology’ - with commerce, in line with the country’s new foreign policy, which calls for emphasis on economic diplomacy. He knew that aid dependency gave foreign nations enormous influence and resolved to eliminate this leverage through better revenue collection, and aggressive engagement. This attempt created a lot of tension as traditional donors reallocated and withheld aid, at least for a while,in a bid to obtain concessions.

How Magufuli altered Tanzania’s Foreign Policy

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