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Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu unveils new Cabinet, drops seven ministers
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has unveiled her new Cabinet, leaving out seven ministers who served in her previous government.
Those relieved of their ministerial duties include former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy, Dr Doto Biteko; Hussein Bashe (Agriculture); Innocent Bashungwa (Home Affairs); Jenista Mhagama (Health); Dr Seleman Jafo (Industries and Trade); Dr Pindi Chana (Natural Resources and Tourism) and Dr Damas Ndumbaro (Constitution and Legal Affairs).
All seven ministers will, however, retain their parliamentary seats.
In the new Cabinet lineup, she has named Tanzania's ambassador to China, Khamis Mussa Omar, as the Finance minister.
In a televised address, she said she had retained Anthony Mavunde as Mining minister and Mahmoud Thabit Kombo as Foreign Affairs minister.
See the full list of Cabinet ministers here: TZ Cabinet full list
Last week Suluhu chose the previous finance minister, Mwigulu Nchemba, to be Prime Minister.
She was declared the landslide winner of the October election, but the vote was marred by clashes with security forces over the exclusion of her main challengers.
Rights groups and opposition parties say hundreds were killed in the clashes, though the government disputes those figures as exaggerated.
Suluhu has promised to investigate the election violence and on Friday offered condolences to bereaved families, her most public acknowledgement of the turmoil, which has caused the country's biggest political crisis in decades.
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