They were part of fourteen people in the Mwanza regional commissioner Robert Gabriel’s entourage who died on Tuesday following a car crash.
In our briefing today: Samia assigns new roles to axed ministers Kabudi, Lukuvi; Deputy Speaker Ackson enters contest to replace Ndugai; BHP to invests $100m in Kabanga Nickel project.
In our briefing today: Samia announces mini cabinet reshuffle; Auctioning of 75 tourist hunting blocks to take off this week
Saturday’s mini cabinet reshuffle comes hardly four days after President Samia hinted about it, promising to get rid of her assistants who have their eyes on the 2025 general elections.
It follows sustained and energetic pressure from fellow CCM members who asked Ndugai to step down as a result of his apparent disagreement with President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration on how best to run the country’s affairs.
In our briefing today: Samia pins borrowing protests on bigger opposition against her within CCM; Tanzania’s economy rebound to 5.2 percent in Q3 ; BAVICHA names key challenges facing Tanzanian youths.
In her address on Tuesday, Samia confirmed what analysts had already observed that some factions within CCM and the government might have been opposed to her ascendence to the presidency and that some strategies are being devised to prevent her from running for presidency through the CCM ticket in 2025.
In our briefing today: Ndugai seeks Samia’s forgiveness over ‘soaring’ national debt remarks; Tax stakeholders invited to share perspectives to improve Tanzania’s tax policy; Three Tanzanian peacekeepers injured in Central African Republic; Road accident kills fourteen, injures 22 in Mtwara; Witness Narrates How Sabaya Extorted Arusha Businessman
She wants both public and private sector officials to start the New Year by increasing efficiency and quality in both production and services delivery.
The firebrand lawyer and politician says he will be in Tanzania by March from Belgium where he sought asylum after a botched assassination attempt against him, the government’s failure to give him security assurances notwithstanding.