STRAIGHT TALK AFRICA: “The Recent Controversial Zanzibar Elections”

Democracy in Tanzania has taken a troubling turn, prompting the U.S. to cancel a $472 Million Millennium Challenge Corporation grant, and even more broadly to reassess the East African nation’s reputation as a beacon of hope for African democracy.
Among the most important concerns for Washington, regional and international election observers was the cancellation of the October 2015 poll on the semi-autonomous territory of Zanzibar, in which Seif Sharif Hamad of the Civic United Front or CUF appeared to have defeated incumbent President Ali Mohamed Shein of the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi or CCM.
CUF boycotted a re-run election in March 2016, ending a government of National Unity on Zanzibar that was negotiated in 2010.
Join this live, one-hour television and radio call-in simulcast of "Straight Talk Africa" when host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss Zanzibar’s controversial elections.