In March Prime Minister Edward Lowassa directed Tanzania's Human Rights Commission to investigate Zanzibari complaints that police and other state organs had violated human rights during the elections...
In May the Tanzanian government abruptly terminated the contract: 'The company has failed to produce the goods' said Water Minister Edward Lowassa...
The most popular defeated presidential candidate from 1995 Foreign Minster Jakaya Kikwete (12th in the NEC poll) and Water and Livestock Minister Edward Lowassa (15th) must have been disappointed as they are likely to try again for president; Kikwete came second to Mkapa in the 1995 candidates' election...
