In November last year when CUF Secretary General Seif Sharif Hamad and President Abeid Amani Karume of Zanzibar emerged from a one-on-one meeting to announce a new friendship of sorts, it came as a surprise. This sudden rapprochement between CUF and CCM in Zanzibar emphasized how impotent the stalled Mwafaka Talks championed by President Jakaya Kikwete [...]