Talk:Samia Suluhu Hassan

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Isn't there a better picture? Pictures of people with their mouth open always look bad. Do wiki editors want to shame her or something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.35.35.42 (talk) 18:54, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

While I don't think that the picture looks particularly bad, the German Wikipedia has another one that you might like better.93.240.89.237 (talk) 16:37, 22 March 2021 (UTC)


 * This is tough as The Government of Tanzania does not have an official copyright policy. Therefore all portrait pictures taken of her through government resources are copyright. Just have to hope she takes some good pictures when in Europe or the United States. Sputink (talk) 16:21, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Political stance
Please, if you have knowledge of it, help create and complete a section about her political positioning. We currently only have her path to presidency, nothing on what she stands for and her political vision. Yug (talk)  21:22, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, please do. We see "female" this and that no less than 8 times in the text but almost zilch about her political views as running mate and supporter of her predecessor. Is she following his policy of LGBT suppression or not? Days have passed and somehow policies are not as notable as "female"? Martindo (talk) 00:55, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

She has said negative things about LGBT as usual but on the ground it's more denial and hasn't persecuted anybody for being gay Nlivataye (talk) 08:43, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Hassan or Suluhu ?
CNN uses Hassan as a last name here: Are we incorrect? Rmhermen (talk) 18:11, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Reuters as well:    Rmhermen (talk) 18:34, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not certain on this one, but I don't think it's correct to use Hassan as a "surname" in this case. It's more of an additional name, while Suluhu is her principal surname. There could be a case for moving the article to the longer name, as it does seem to occur frequently in sources including those from East Africa, but I don't think we should switch the later mentions in the body of the article from Suluhu to Hassan. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 09:24, 23 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment per this discussion and the one at, I've made a WP:BOLD decision move the article to Samia Suluhu Hassan, amending the ITN text accordingly. My two-pence-worth, based on what I can see in sources would be that:
 * Her full name is certainly Samia Suluhu Hassan. A large majority of sources do call her by that full name on first mention, including many in Tanzania itself and in East Africa.
 * My suspicion is that, despite the above, her "surname" (or the closest equivalent thereto) and the name by which we should refer to her outside of the title, is still Suluhu. If this theory is correct, the "Hassan" would be a sort of bolt-on to the end of her name, similar to how Cristiano Ronaldo's full name is actually "Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro". This theory matches sources such as and those mentioned above (and including her Twitter account) which don't include Hassan at all. The only sources I can see that are calling her just "Hassan" seem to be US, Australian and European sources, and I suspect they've simply got the naming convention wrong.
 * I therefore recomment that we *stick to using Suluhu* in the main body of this page.
 * As usual, if anyone objects to any of this, then they may revert me or challenge me accordingly. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:26, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Religion
Judging by her photo, and indeed referenced in the article, Suluhu is a Muslim. Shouldn't this be mentioned in the "Personal life" section?--TrottieTrue (talk) 17:08, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

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avoidance of criticism?
I'm new to the topic but preparing this article for the catalan wikipedia, it seems like, despite generally improving the state of the country, there is still lots of problems and questionable governance.

There is an important conflict/topic not being addressed in this article.

- https://witnessradio.org/urgent-alert-tanzanian-government-on-a-rampage-against-indigenous-people/ - https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/blog/epic-tanzania-tour-sportswashing-abuses-maasai

Also, I have the feeling that this article is avoiding or minimizing criticism... and thus offering a biased view.

- https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/africa/east-africa-the-horn-and-great-lakes/tanzania/report-tanzania/ - https://www.amnistia.org/en/news/2023/08/24576/tanzania-detained-critics-of-uae-port-deal-must-be-immediately-released

I may include this information in the article if you consider it appropriate. Sorneguer (talk) 08:33, 12 March 2024 (UTC)


 * The purpose of Wikipedia is not to document every negative thing written about a person. The article as it stands summarizes the most commonly written things about Suluhu Hassan. It looks like you went out of your way to find negative coverage solely for the sake of adding negative coverage. The big ugly alien  ( talk ) 19:01, 12 March 2024 (UTC)