Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete

Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete is content we hear to let Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe take the lead on the issue – along with the flak...

As June’s deadline for Zimbabwe’s constitution looms Zuma handed the torch to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete who chairs SADC’s Organ on Politics Defence and Security Cooperation...

With strong encouragement from donors President Jakaya Kikwete was on an anti-corruption crusade in 2005-06 and he then promised to pursue this case in particular...

Although Jakaya Kikwete sacked Energy and Minerals Minister William Ngeleja one of eight to go in April’s reshuffle many of the power sector’s problems remain (AC Vol 53 No 9 Corrupt but open)...

A source close to State House suggests that President Jakaya Kikwete did not pick Makamba because he still has an opportunity to ‘grow’ politically and the job was ‘risky’...

Foreign Minister Bernard Membe’s popular profile is low but he has a strong network and is close to the President and party Chairman Jakaya Kikwete...

Ironically while the storm was breaking in Parliament President Jakaya Kikwete was in Brazil addressing the Open Government Partnership Forum and taking credit for ‘opening up the reports of the Controller and Auditor General to enable the general public to know how their money is spent...

President Jakaya Kikwete however refuses to get involved which some analysts say explains his frequent trips abroad...

He resigned in September 2007 over the notorious External Payment Arrears (EPA) fraud (AC Vol 49 No 2 Corruption countdown) although President Jakaya Kikwete officially ‘sacked’ him in January 2008...

In Tanzania new Transport Minister Harrison Mwakyembe revealed in July that CIF and its partner China Sonangol had tried to convince President Jakaya Kikwete’s government to cancel Petra Diamonds’ claim to the Williamson diamond mine in order to finance the acquisition of the failing Air Tanzania...