It is peak tourist season in Tanzania, where the great migration of wildebeest has drawn thousands of foreign tourists to witness one of the great miracles of nature.
Away from their gaze, however, the east African state is sliding into a dictatorship in which critics of the president are shown no mercy.
The detention last week of Erick Kabendera, 39, an independent journalist who has written for The Times and other international newspapers, has drawn a sharp rebuke from Britain and the US, which are among the country’s biggest aid funders. The charges which have since been brought against him are widely seen as a tactic to silence him.
President Magufuli, 59, nicknamed “the bulldozer”, was elected in 2015 on a pledge to root
