Days later Foreign Minister January Makamba and Minister of Information Communication and Information Technology Nape Nnauye were sacked amid rumours that they were secretly plotting to challenge Samia's re-election bid...
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Vol 65 No 2 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Tanzania's foreign minister January Makamba and Kenyan counterpart Musalia Mudavadi are set to hold emergency talks to resolve the latest tit-for-tat trade row between Nairobi and Arusha...
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She has removed key Magufuli appointees and allies such as parliamentary speaker Job Ndugai who backed the abolition of presidential term limits when Magufuli was president and Bashiru Ali Magufuli's CCM Secretary General and rehabilitated younger figures such as January Makamba Nape Nnauye and their cohort who had been ritually humiliated by Magufuli (AC Vol 60 No 19 Magufuli's challengers recant)...
The signing of initial agreements in June and a further signing due in December of a 'host government agreement' incorporating key project terms should add momentum says Energy Minister January Makamba...
Tanzania's Energy Minister January Makamba continued his attempt to rejuvenate the power sector by announcing a clear-out of all the staff of the troubled power utility Tanzanian Electricity Supply Company's (Tanesco) communications department on 26 January...
New energy minister January Makamba has long been tipped as a future president of the united republic so his bold plans for the energy sector are winning political attention (AC Vol 53 No 13 New broom passed over & Vol 52 No 9 New brooms old handles)...
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The most significant move in terms of party management is for January Makamba who replaces Medard Kalemani as Minister for Energy...
January Makamba had been in the running to succeed President Magufuli before his dismissal...
Key figures are Kikwete himself his former assistant January Makamba former party Secretary-General Abdulrahman Kinana and members of parliament Nape Nnauye and Ridhiwani Kikwete the former president's son...
Magufuli supporters are convinced the account is a project of Abdulrahman Kinana and January Makamba...
Other factions centre on Prime Minister Kassam Majaliwa Local Government Minister Selemani Jafo and the former Environment Minister and Minister of State for Union Affairs January Makamba...
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Still ambitious though maybe not so young Turks in the CCM such as January Makamba and Nape Nnauye will position themselves as loyalists for the duration of the campaign looking for opportunities over the coming five years (AC Vol 60 No 19 Magufuli's challengers recant)...