What We're Watching: Tanzania's COVID U-turn, US-Russia nuclear trust, Chinese nuke silos

What We're Watching: Tanzania's COVID U-turn, US-Russia nuclear trust, Chinese nuke silos July 28, 2021 Carlos Santamaria and Alex Kliment Tanzania reverses course on COVID: Just four months ago, the Tanzanian government was completely denying the existence of the pandemic. Then-President John Magufuli insisted Tanzania was COVID-free thanks to peoples’ prayers, and refused to try to get vaccines. But Magufuli died suddenly in March — perhaps of COVID. His successor, current President Samia Suluhu, has acknowledged the presence of the virus in Tanzania, and although she was initially lukewarm on mask-wearing and vaccines, Suluhu has recently changed her tune, first…