Foreign Interference: Tanzania Blocks European Parliamentary Team From Visiting Country
In November 2022, China revamped its fabled Belt and Road Initiative – a win-win development initiative aimed at the Global South – in Tanzania. In December 2022, Tanzania signed a historic $2.2 billion railway deal with China to link the East African country’s port city, Dar es Salaam, to its neighbors, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda, as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Many other deals would follow, each with the potential to transform Tanzania and the wider continent, economically and politically, for the better.
But there was one problem.
An African nation was suddenly fast-tracking its development, without the blessing of the West.
And so the West did what it did best. It funded an “opposition” movement in Tanzania, and deployed its media parrots to promote the members of this “opposition” as “defenders of human rights and democracy” fighting against a “repressive” government, and sensationalize this government’s necessary actions to thwart the attempted color revolution that would follow.
And even after this failed regime change plot, the West continues to do everything in its power to destroy Tanzania.