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An assistant to former President Jakaya Kikwete Makamba was President John Magufuli's environment minister until July 2019 when he was sacked ostensibly for poor performance...
Yet the two met at Banda's home on 16 August after Lungu's concession speech the encounter reportedly brokered by the head of the Commonwealth observer mission Tanzania's ex-President Jakaya Kikwete and the head of the African Union observer mission Sierra Leone's ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma...
How Samia addresses these issues in practice is reminiscent of the administration of her chief political backer, Jakaya Kikwete, with the competing factions within the party leading to patchy implementation, and political weakness as she seeks to placate different interest groups (AC Vol 62 No 7, Life after the bulldozer)...
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Under President Jakaya Kikwete Aziz had been a kingmaker and treasurer in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi before falling out of grace...
The two most prominent relatives are Magufuli's nephew the permanent secretary of the finance ministry Doto James and the president's Secretary Ngusa Samike who was the family spokesperson at the funeral and was with Magufuli since his days as Minister for Livestock and Fisheries under President Jakaya Kikwete...
Former President Jakaya Kikwete alluded to it when recounting how he was informed by text message that Magufuli was dead...
She studied public administration at postgraduate level at the University of Manchester United Kingdom before returning to Tanzania to take up a political career first as a member of the Zanzibar Assembly then as Minister of State in the Vice-President's office for Union Affairs under the presidency of Jakaya Kikwete who remains a close ally...
The dominant faction within the party is an old guard loyal to former President Jakaya Kikwete...
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It was given information about the medical treatment of former presidents Julius Nyerere Benjamin Mkapa and Jakaya Kikwete said Lissu...
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CCM has known it was under pressure since 2010 when President Jakaya Kikwete won a second term with just 63% of the vote on a 42% turnout...
Intended as a key element in China's Belt and Road Initiative preliminary work on the project started in 2015 under Magufuli's predecessor Jakaya Kikwete (AAC Vol 6 No 9 Pipeline and transparency protests)...
Relations with Rwanda strained under President Jakaya Kikwete will continue to be smooth...
