Bloomberg Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu is set to return home to take part in presidential elections, three years after surviving an assassination attempt. The 52-year-old human-rights lawyer plans to run against John Magufuli, who’s seeking a second term after five years in power that critics say has been marred by a crackdown on civil liberties and political dissent. The ...

Bloomberg President Rodrigo Duterte pushed for corporate tax cuts and targeted support for pandemic-hit industries as part of a recovery plan, and told lawmakers on Monday he’d asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help the Philippines get priority access to a Covid-19 vaccine. In his annual congressional address, Duterte also attacked the elite, while asking banks and property companies to ...

Bloomberg Ukraine pushed for progress to end the conflict with Russian-backed separatists over its easternmost regions as the latest ceasefire took effect after dozens of unsuccessful attempts. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won last year’s elections on a promise to end the war that has killed more than 13,000 people since it began with Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for ...