Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete

Two leading MPs Ismail Aden Rage of CCM and James Francis Mbatia of the National Convention for Construction and Reform-Mageuzi (appointed to his seat by President Jakaya Kikwete) both said in the press that ‘foreign powers’ upset at the pipeline being Chinese-funded were likely to be behind the trouble...

It is worried not only by the unrest in Mtwara but by the destabilising political and administrative effects of the race to succeed President Jakaya Kikwete and the government's inability to deal with the country's increasingly frustrated and violent young men (AC Vol 53 No 9)...

Both men are also close to Aziz who is reputed to have bankrolled President Jakaya Kikwete’s 2005 and 2010 election campaigns (AC Vol 51 No 21)...

May’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa saw Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete ask if the Kigali-supported Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) rebels should negotiate with Kinshasa why shouldn’t his Rwandan and Ugandan counterparts negotiate with the rebels they oppose in eastern Congo-Kinshasa...

Within the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi tension will increase as the race to succeed President Jakaya Kikwete gathers momentum...

In Dar es Salaam the government of President Jakaya Kikwete agreed to open an embassy in Seoul...

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete said he was worried about the destabilising power of joblessness...

The deal provoked some members of parliament to demand that the government reveal the contents of 16 other trade cultural and development deals signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Jakaya Kikwete during Xi's 24 March visit...

Reginald Mengi a Tanzanian media tycoon who is a friend and backer of President Jakaya Kikwete has been ordered to pay £1...

He cited a 2008 memo in which the Guardian Managing Director instructed all editors to seek his approval before publishing ‘controversial or any otherwise sensitive stories on President Jakaya Kikwete’ calling it ‘a momentary glimpse of the truth’...

Uamsho is becoming increasingly militant says Benson Bana a senior advisor to President Jakaya Kikwete...