Tanzania

There is broad acknowledgement in Tanzania that the current constitution, which has been the country's legal foundation since 1977, needs to be rewritten. The existing set of laws originally prescribed a one-party state and, although a 1992 amendment established multiparty democracy, opposition parties and civic society groups maintain that the 1977 document continues to favour the incumbent, Chama Cha Mapinduzi party. The demand for a new constitution was one of the central motivations for a series of rare public protests in late 2010 and early

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