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Tanzania. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli [2] (29 October 1959 – 17 March 2021) [3] was the fifth president of Tanzania, serving from 2015 until his death in 2021. He served as Minister of Works, Transport and Communications from 2000 to 2005 and 2010 to 2015 and was chairman of the Southern African Development Community from 2019 to 2020.
This is a timeline of Tanzanian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Tanzania and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Tanzania. See also the list of presidents of Tanzania. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing ...
Tanzania has a high HIV/AIDS rate and reportedly one million people are infected. The Government has increasingly resorted to homophobic rhetoric, alleging that homosexuality is "un-African". In 2018, a so-called "witch hunt" was declared against gay people in Dar es Salaam , where gay men were forced to endure anal examinations and torture. [3]
General elections were held in Tanzania on 25 October 2015. Voters elected the president, members of Parliament, and local government councillors. [2] By convention, the election was held on the last Sunday of October and was supervised by the National Electoral Commission (NEC). Political campaigns commenced on 22 August and ceased a day ...
The Uganda–Tanzania War, known in Tanzania as the Kagera War ( Kiswahili: Vita vya Kagera) and in Uganda as the 1979 Liberation War, [a] was fought between Uganda and Tanzania from October 1978 until June 1979 and led to the overthrow of Ugandan President Idi Amin. The war was preceded by a deterioration of relations between Uganda and ...
Following the rebasing of the economy in 2014, the GDP increased by a third to $41.33 billion. [27] In 2020, the real GDP of Tanzania grew by 4.8% reaching US$64.4 billion versus US$60.8 billion in 2019. This growth made it the 2nd largest economy in East Africa after Kenya, and the 7th largest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mohammed Dewji. Mohammed "Mo" Gulamabbas Dewji (born 8 May 1975) is a Tanzanian billionaire businessman and former politician. He is the owner of MeTL Group, a Tanzanian conglomerate founded by his grandmother, developed by his father in the 1970s. Dewji served as Member of the Tanzanian Parliament for Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) from 2005 to ...
Edward Lowassa. Edward Ngoyai Lowassa (26 August 1953 – 10 February 2024) was a Tanzanian politician who was Prime Minister of Tanzania [2] from 2005 to 2008, serving under President Jakaya Kikwete. [3] Lowassa went into record as the first Prime Minister to have been forced to resign by a fraud scandal in the history of Tanzania.