AG: Outcome of Katiba vote key to poll reforms

Dar es Salaam. Slightly more than half of Tanzanians on the Mainland would vote for the Proposed Constitution if a referendum was held between January and February this year, a new opinion poll suggests. But as the clock ticks towards the referendum, support for the new Katiba has dropped, according to the Twaweza poll, with a large number still undecided.

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>Ugandans want the Opposition and the ruling NRM party to hold talks about a raft of proposed electoral reforms to ensure free and fair elections in 2016, a new opinion poll reveals.

 Tanzania should reduce procedures and other bureaucracies associated with setting up a business in the country to discourage corruption that discourages investors.

Voters in Zambia are due to go to the polls in a presidential election caused by the death of Michael Sata last year.

A huge security operation is under way across Egypt as voters prepare to head to the polls to elect a new president.

Elections on Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar have been annulled for not being free and fair, the local electoral commission chief says.

The wife of Mr Edward Lowassa, the former Prime Minister and presidential candidate on Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) ticket, Regina, has pleaded with women countrywide to vote for his husband and opposition leaders, saying they know exactly where to raise the much-needed school fees for their children.

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Armed Tanzanian police stand guard outside a vote counting center at Maji Matitu Primary School in Mbagala, in the Temeke district of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalfan Said). RSS; Follow; Email; Print; Share. Reuters.