Cabo Delgado: Suluhu Hassan turns from China to the West as terror threat looms

摘要

Tanzania's top brass has in recent months been scrambling to establish new contacts with Western military and diplomatic representatives in Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan is taking very seriously the jihadist threat just across her southern border in Mozambique's gas-rich Cabo Delgado province (see our running story). The new head of state has instructed Tanzania People's Defence Forces' (TPDF) chief of staff Venance Mabeyo, with whom she enjoys excellent relations, to prepare his army to deal with the threat if it spills over the border.