This coupled with her status as a Muslim woman from Zanzibar has made her nervous about her prospects for winning the election outright say insiders leading to alliances with factions allied to Magufuli and his predecessor Jakaya Kikwete...
The chances of a repeat of Edward Lowassa's 40% vote share against CCM's Jakaya Kikwete in 2015 being allowed to happen in October are almost zero...
Four East African presidents former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo and Tanzanian counterpart Jakaya Kikwete were among the bigwigs at State House on 27 August to endorse Odinga...
Among the July changes Ridhiwani Kikwete son of former President Jakaya Kikwete was appointed Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office...
Another source close to Samia says that Makonda was sent to Arusha to appease the CCM faction that supported former President Jakaya Kikwete and which remains key to Samia's control of the party...
Nchimbi held a series of ministerial positions including the Home Affairs Ministry under former President Jakaya Kikwete (AC Vol 55 No 4 Trophy-hunters after Kikwete)...
Rumours that Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete would stand have ebbed (Dispatches 21/2/24 Raila Odinga's bid for AU chair wins consensus in Nairobi)...
Vol 65 No 5 |
- AFRICAN UNION
The race to succeed Moussa Faki Mahamat as chair of the African Union Commission (AUC) in February 2025 already has two contenders Tanzania's former president Jakaya Kikwete and Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga...
Edward Lowassa who has died aged 70 was a close friend confidant and ally of ex-President Jakaya Kikwete who spent a fortune advancing his prospects and embracing any part of the ideological spectrum that would help him but without reaching the highest office of all...
The son of a Maasai herdsman who doubled as a lowly colonial official Lowassa studied for a BA at the University of Dar es Salaam where he met his lifelong political soulmate and future president Jakaya Kikwete before graduating from the University of Bath England with a degree in development studies...
' Lowassa always claimed that he had the full support of President Jakaya Kikwete (AC Vol 55 No 24 Power scandal rocks ministers)...
DISPATCHES
Early indications are that Tanzania's former President Jakaya Kikwete will also seek the position which AU officials say is likely to go to an East African...
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President Jakaya Kikwete rewarded Makonda for scuppering the review process which Kikwete had initiated by appointing him District Commissioner for Kinondoni District in Dar...