Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba told the nation on 25 November that the government would not publish a death toll saying that publicising death figures would fuel division at a time when healing and unity were needed and ‘dishonour the dead'...

The technocrat and the party hack – that is the early assessment of new Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba and Vice-President Emmanuel Nchimbi the two men tasked with fronting President Samia Suluhu Hassan's efforts to heal the wounds left by the state's killing of hundreds of its citizens following the 28 October polls (AC Vol 66 No 22 Cloud of blood and doubt hangs over Hassan's victory)...

Finance ministers for Kenya Tanzania and Uganda – John Mbadi Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba and Matia Kasaija – face common challenges: increasing revenues targeting spending more effectively and reducing debt burdens (AC Vol 65 No 13 A fragile recovery)...

Tanzanian Minister of Finance and Planning Mwigulu Nchemba has taken a similar approach to Nairobi and says that over two-thirds of his spending plan will be sourced domestically targeting a 15% increase in the tax take...

Tanzania's Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba meanwhile will also struggle to meet his target of keeping the budget deficit below 3% of GDP after proposing to increase spending plans by 9% and start a fuel price-stabilisation fund designed to cap prices...

And Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba's projections of a rebound to 5...

Only days earlier Minister for Home Affairs Mwigulu Nchemba accused the protest organisers of planning to kill demonstrators and blame the deaths on the security forces...

Minister for Home Affairs Mwigulu Nchemba claims they are the bodies of illegal immigrants who died during passage and were dumped by traffickers...