Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s reconciliation efforts face a difficult test: political actors increasingly agree that dialogue is necessary, but deep mistrust between them is raising a more fundamental question — who can be trusted to bring the country’s divided political camps together?

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Political analysts say Tanzania has already crossed an important first hurdle by acknowledging that the country needs to address its political divisions. The bigger challenge now, they argue, is finding a trusted mediator who can bring competing sides into a process accepted by all.