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Tanzania

Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Mwalimu)

Date of Birth: 13 April 1922
Place of Birth: Butiama, Mara Region
Died: 14 October 1999


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Wind in the rigging

The Organisation of African Unity has called for a full rerun but since the death of founding President Julius Nyerere no international (or for that matter mainland Tanzanian) figure has had much influence on Zanzibar's CCM hardliners...


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Playing the offside rule

President Alpha Oumar Konaré ('AOK') wants a successful outcome hoping to go down as a statesman on the lines of Tanzania's late President Julius Nyerere...


Offshore turbulence

Everyone had expected that with the death of former President Julius Nyerere on 14 October last year the Union between Zanzibar and the Tanzanian mainland would come under strain...


Cooperation again

Tanzania's President Mkapa had stepped back from regional affairs leaving most high-level diplomacy to the founding President Julius Nyerere...

Appointed in Arusha in December South Africa's former President wants broad-based negotiations to include the Hutu-led guerrilla groups kept out by his predecessor: Julius Nyerere...


Chiluba and after

He has publicly stated his intention to step down in 2001 and frequently praises those African leaders who have made way for elected successors citing the late Julius Nyerere of Tanzania Quett Masire of Botswana and of course Nelson Mandela...


After Mwalimu

Saddened by the death of their founding President Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in London on 14 October Tanzanians face a difficult run-up to the elections due next year without his steadying influence on the political stage...


Losing a peacemaker

The loss of Tanzania's Julius Nyerere on 14 October coincided with a serious worsening of Burundi's internal conflict...


Alger l'Africaine

Algeria's and Tanzania's first presidents Ahmed Ben Bella and Mwalimu Julius Nyerere made cameo appearances; sharp-suited Maghreb businessmen talked animatedly into cell-phones about Algeria's 'commercial renaissance'...


Fighting talk

Lissouba says he hasn't spoken to Oba and Olivier directly but links Sassou's latest moves with his own attempts to start negotiations through contacts with figures such as Algeria's Ahmed Ben Bella South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere...


Divided republic

Yet despite the encouraging signs on transparency and governance the dead-weight of his own party - ex-President Julius Nyerere's old Revolutionary Party the Chama Cha Mapinduzi - still hangs over Mkapa...


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