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Tanzania

January Yusuf Makamba

Date of Birth: 28 January 1974
Place of Birth: Singida Region


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Back to bulldozer politics

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...


Samia builds her base and sets down markers

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)...


Tough transitions follow the ructions

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...


Communications breakdown

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...


Makamba plans power reforms, aiming for the presidency

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)...


Life after the bulldozer

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...


Back to the one-party state

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)...


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