ABIT like President Donald Trump, Tanzania's president, John Magufuli, likes to fire employees on television. In November Mr Magafuli used a live broadcast from a small town in the north of the country summarily to dismiss two officials after they failed to remember instantly details in their budgets. When one protested that she couldn't reasonably be expected to be able to recall every figure, Mr Magufuli told her, "You can't talk to me like that."
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