The two sides' accusations should be subject to a 'verification mechanism' presided over by Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki with ex-Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania as 'facilitators'...
’ His predecessor Benjamin Mkapa’s government had been criticised for rampant graft...
Vol 49 No 10 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
He also proposed that a contingent of Africa's elder statesmen such as Botswana's Quett Masire Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano and Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa should visit Zimbabwe to urge the two sides to work together as in the troubled mediation efforts in post-election Kenya...
Ghana's President John Kufuor Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the delegation of four former African heads-of-state led by the former President of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa were thanked for their concern and politely sent on their way...
Kizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda who served as Private Secretary to three Tanzanian presidents Julius Nyerere Ali Hassan Mwinyi and Benjamin Mkapa is President Jakaya Kikwete's surprising choice as Prime Minister after the resignation of Edward Lowassa who was accused of impropriety over a power contract...
Britain finds it embarrassing to raise corruption issues: it must await the outcome of an investigation by its Serious Fraud Office into a BAE Systems contract with the preceding government under President Benjamin Mkapa (AC Vol 46 No 12)...
Familiar faces from the past included Pierre Buyoya of Burundi the octogenarian Sir Ketumile Masire of Botswana Tanzania's Benjamin Mkapa and Salim Ahmed Salim former Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity...
Also up for serious consideration was Tanzania's former President Benjamin Mkapa...
Clean' President Benjamin Mkapa his wife Anna and their allies...
Vol 47 No 14 |
- AFRICAN UNION
First he persuaded his fellow leaders to reject an extremely critical report on Zimbabwe by the African Union's Human Rights Commission; then he pre-empted Annan's efforts to mediate in Zimbabwe's internal crisis (as part of a plan agreed between SA President Thabo Mbeki and British Premier Tony Blair) by appointing his own mediator (and close friend) Tanzanian former President Benjamin Mkapa...