Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzania’s parliament speaker Job Ndugai resigned on Thursday following a video clip in which he criticized the government’s borrowing trend, saying it was unhealthy. In a statement released by parliament in the capital Dodoma, Ndugai said he has written a letter to the secretary …
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✳ Mpango’s Career ▪ 1980-1980 Public relations assistant, National Provident Fund ▪ 1980-1981 Research assistant, Elimu Supplies Ltd ▪ 1984-1988 Economist, Ministry of Labor ▪ 1988-2002 Economics Lecturer Dar-es-Salaam University ▪ 2002-2006 Senior Economist World Bank ▪ 2007-2009 Economic advisor to the President, President’s Office ▪ 2009-2010 Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry …
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Suluhu will be first woman President in traditional East Africa Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | As stipulated in the Tanzanian constitution, Vice President Samia Hassan Suluhu will be sworn in as the country’s 6th President following the death of John Pombe Magufuli this week. She will become the country’s first …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Tanzanian President John Magufuli, also chairman of the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), said on Tuesday in capital Dodoma he is seeking re-election to enable him to complete unfinished projects that started during his first five-year term. Magufuli gave reasons for seeking the presidential re-election …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Tanzania on Sunday held local government elections, viewed as a test case ahead of national polls next year, with the main opposition party boycotting the ballot citing violence and intimidation. The long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President John Magufuli is therefore …
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TANZANIA: Magufuli critic Tundu Lissu shot and wounded Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Gunmen shot and wounded prominent Tanzanian opposition politician Tundu Lissu, an outspoken government critic, outside his home in the capital Dodoma. The opposition, rights groups and Tanzania’s government expressed shock and demanded a full investigation. “The attack …
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