CCM, Chadema readying for a roundtable meeting

Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu.

Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu at State House in Dar es Salaam on March 4 during their second face-to-face meeting. PHOTO | AFP

What you need to know:

  • Questions had been raised over timing of the Chadema leader’s second private chat with President Samia on the eve of his party’s first General Assembly in two years.
  • They met for the first time on March 4, the same day prosecutors dropped terrorism charges against Mr Mbowe after a drawn-out trial during which he and his three co-accused had spent eight months in detention.