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Lieutenant Colonel. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (born 7 October 1950) [1] [2] is a Tanzanian politician who was the fourth president of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015. Prior to his election as president, he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2005 under his predecessor, Benjamin Mkapa. He also served as the chairperson of the ...
Jakaya Kikwete became President of Tanzania on 21 December 2005 following the 2005 Tanzanian general election. Kikwete was president for 10 years and ended his tenure on 5 November 2015, the following is a list of international presidential trips made by Jakaya Kikwete while in office.
Kikwete Cabinet. The Kikwete Cabinet was formed by President Jakaya Kikwete after taking the oath of office on 21 December 2005. Kikwete had won a landslide victory in the 2005 presidential election receiving 80.2 percent of the popular vote. [1] His inaugural cabinet had seven women ministers, the highest in the nation's history.
The first inauguration of Jakaya Kikwete as the 4th president of Tanzania took place on Wednesday, 21 December 2005. It marked the commencement of the first five-year term of Jakaya Kikwete as President and Ali Mohamed Shein as Vice President. Kikwete won the 2005 presidential election by a landslide receiving 80.28 percent of the popular vote.
General elections were held in Tanzania on 31 October 2010. [1] The presidential elections were won by the incumbent Jakaya Kikwete of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party (CCM), who received 63% of the vote, down from 80% in 2005. The parliamentary elections resulted in a victory for the CCM, which won 186 of the 239 elected seats in the National ...
The incumbent president, Jakaya Kikwete, had served out two terms, the maximum allowed under the law, and was ineligible to run for a third term. Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), the country's dominant ruling party, selected Works Minister John Magufuli as its presidential nominee instead of the front-runner, former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa.
Family of Jakaya Kikwete. Jakaya Kikwete. The family of Jakaya Kikwete refers to the family of the 4th President of Tanzania. His immediate family is the First Family of Tanzania. [1]
A referendum on the new constitution was scheduled to take place on 30 April 2015. In late March, Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, warned that the lead-up to the referendum was seeing increased tensions between Muslims and Christians that could lead to an increase in violence between followers of the two religions. [5]