Can high-level meetings and summits build trust and change a historically complex set of relationships?
Hassan, like Magufuli before her, has taken office without her own political base and will also have to contend with revived factional manoeuvring.
The legitimacy of SWAPO, the former liberation movement that has governed since 1990, has been eroded amid growing corruption and a deepening economic crisis.
The more President Mnangagwa's government fails to engage democratically with its own citizens, the more it will negate any prospect of re-engagement with the West.
Museveni’s attempt to gain support in urban areas in the 2021 elections was not only about repression. But it still failed.
