Tanzania's Magufuli - Timely Reformist or Just Another Despot?

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President John Magufuli has vowed to clean up government, firing officials deemed corrupt or incompetent. But his combative style has brought with it some barriers to investment. By LYAL WHITE and ADRIAN KITIMBO.

When Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Latin American novelist and leftist activist, first met populist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela shortly after he had become president, he was ambivalent about the man who would eventually take his country, region and the world by storm:

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