On June 3, 2026, two things happened simultaneously. In Brussels, the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Development committees voted 81 to 1 to block €156 million in EU development funding for Tanzania.
In Moscow, President Samia Suluhu Hassan sat across from Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin, becoming only the second Tanzanian head of state to visit Russia since Mwalimu Julius Nyerere made the journey in 1969.
That same week, a bipartisan bill in the United States Senate, the “Reassessing the United States-Tanzania Bilateral Relationship Act”, introduced by Senators Shaheen and Cruz, proposed suspending US security assistance, development aid, and trade support pending certification of meaningful democratic reforms.
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