The Cabinet

Portfolio Name President and Commander -in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the United Republic of Tanzania H.E Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Vice - President H.E Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein President of Zanzibar H.E Amani Abeid Amani Karume Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania Rt.Hon. Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda Ministers of State in the President's Office Public Service Management Hon. Hawa Abdulrahman Ghasia Good Governance Hon. Sofia Mnyambi Simba Ministers of State in the Vice President's Office Union Affairs Hon. Muhammed Seif Khatib Environment Hon. Dr. Batilda Salha Burian Ministers of State in the Prime Minister's Office Regional Administration and Local Government Hon. Stephen Masatu Wassira Parliamentary Affairs Hon. Philip Sang’ka Marmo Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Hon. Bernard Kamillius Membe Minister for East African Co-operation Hon. Dr. Diodorus Buberwa Kamala Minister for Planning and Finance Hon. Mustafa Mkuro Minister for Industry, Trade and Marketing Hon. Dr. Mary Michael Nagu Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Co-operatives Hon. Prof. Peter Mahmoud Msolla Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Hon. Shamsa Mwangunga Minister for Water and Irrigation Hon. Prof. Mark James Mwandosya Minister for Energy and Minerals Hon. William Ngeleje Minister for Infrastructure Development Hon. Andrew John Chenge Minister for Science, Technology and ICT Development Hon. Dr. Shukuru Jumanne Kawambwa Minister for Health and Social Welfare Hon. Prof. David Homeli Mwakyusa Minister for Education and Vocational Training Hon. Prof. Jumanne Abdallah Maghembe Minister for Labour, Employment and Youth Development Hon. Prof. Juma Athumani Kapuya Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development Ho. Capt. John Zefania Chiligati Minister for Information, Culture, and Sports Hon. George Mkuchika Minister for Defence and National Service Hon. Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi Minister for Home Affairs Hon. Lawrence Kego Masha Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Hon. Mathias Meinrad Chikawe Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children Hon. Margareth Simwanza Sitta Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Development Hon. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli Deputy Ministers and Their Respective Ministries Prime Minister’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government Hon. Celina Ompeshi Kombani Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Hon. Seif Ali Iddi East African Co-operation Hon. Mohamed Aboud Finance Hon. Jeremiah Sumari Hon. Omar Yussuf Mzee Industry, Trade and Marketing Hon. Dr. Cyril Chami Agriculture, Food Security and Co-operatives Hon. Dr. David Mathayo David Energy and Minerals Hon. Adam Malima Infrastructure Development Hon. Dr. Milton Makongoro Mahanga Science, Technology and ICT Development Hon. Dr. Maua Abeid Daftari Health and Social Welfare Hon. Dr. Aisha Omar Kigoda Education and Vocational Training Hon. Mwantumu Bakari Mahiza Hon. Gaudensia Mugosi Kabaka Labour, Employment, and Youth Development Hon . Hezekiah Ndahani Chibulunje Community Development, Gender and Children Hon. Lucy Nkya Home Affairs Hon. Khamis Sued Kagasheki Livestock ang Fisheries Development Hon. Dr. James Mnanka Wanyancha Natural Resources and Tourism Hon. Ezekiel Maige Water and Irrigation Hon. Eng. Christopher Chiza Information, Culture and Sports Hon. Joel Nkaya Bendera Defence and National Service Hon. Dr. Emmanuel John Nchimbi

Still the man: Chief mediator Kofi Annan emerges from closed door talks at Nairobi’s Harambee House with Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga on Friday last week. Pic: Anthony Kamau.

Breakthrough in talks as both sides climb down

By FRED OLUOCH

Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan appears to be on the brink of clinching a peace deal for Kenya.

Getting President Mwai Kibaki to climb down from the position that the election dispute could only be resolved in a court of law was no easy task.

Neither was it going to be easy to persuade Raila Odinga to climb down from the position that the election was stolen and that the only option was for Kibaki to either step down or agree to a re-run of the presidential election.

It is noteworthy that even as a breakthrough was being announced, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka was in the United States lobbying Congress to press Raila to seek redress in court.

Indeed, throughout last week, temperatures remained high at the Serena Hotel where the negotiations are taking place, with Kibaki’s team making it clear that a power-sharing deal was out of the question.

The standard refrain of hawkish elements on their side of the divide, including Finance Minister Amos Kimunya, was that they were not prepared to share power with “losers.”

In the midst of it all, one other factor was causing positions to harden even further on Kibaki’s side: As international pressure mounted on him, with one diplomat after the other issuing threats to members of his administration, his key players began taking exception to what they saw as bullying by foreigners.

Clearly, getting the parties to agree to discuss power-sharing was not going to be easy for Annan’s team.

Still, agreeing to discuss how to share power was the easy part. As long as the stakes for the hardliners on both side of the divide remain high, an agreement on a power-sharing deal may take much longer to achieve.

One on side, there is a group that fears that the mediation process may expose their culpability in the sins that may have been committed at the Electoral Commission of Kenya during the tallying of the presidential votes.

On the other are hardliners who fear revenge for the killings — especially in the Rift Valley. In the middle of the post-election violence, criminal elements have taken advantage, burnt people’s houses and displaced hundreds of thousands of members of President Mwai Kibaki’s community.

Their fear is that if Kibaki is allowed to entrench himself in power, they may face retribution.

Which is why one of the most important achievements by the Annan team was to get the negotiating parties to agree to a truth and reconciliation commission.

Implemented well, truth and reconciliation commissions have proved to be the best medicine for dealing with the fear of retribution for historical injustices.

What options will be on the table as the teams reassemble for negotiations? First is an interim coalition government that will last for a few years to give space for national healing, agreed constitutional reforms and reconstitution of the Electoral Commission.

Second, a grand coalition of all the major parties in parliament.

Third, where Odinga and Kibaki share executive powers — a compromise between what was stipulated in the Bomas Draft constitution and the Kilifi Draft during the constitutional reform debate of 2005.

Success will, however, depend on whether the principals manage to dissuade their agents from engaging in strident rhetoric.

The decision by the government to lift the ban on public rallies, which was announced a day before the “breakthrough” was a good starting point — as it signalled that the government was keen to implement decisions agreed on and signed off on by both parties at the Annan mediation process.

If parliament is recalled, and as long as the mood of hope is maintained, the country may be on the path of reconciliation.

Africa’s most decorated diplomat, Annan has handled more serious conflicts, where the stakes were even higher than in Kenya.

Before becoming secretary-general of the UN, in 1990, it was Annan who facilitated the repatriation of international staff and citizens of Western countries from Iraq after it invaded Kuwait. Subsequently, he led initial negotiations with Baghdad on the sale of oil to fund humanitarian relief.

As secretary-general, Annan used his good offices in several delicate political situations, including an attempt in 1998 to gain Iraq’s compliance with Security Council resolutions, as well as a mission that year to promote the transition to civilian rule in Nigeria.

In 1999, he helped to resolve the stalemate between Libya and the Security Council, and to forge an international response to violence in East Timor.

He has worked to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to resolve their differences through negotiations based on Security Council resolutions and the principle of “land for peace.”

It is Annan’s stature as former secretary general of the United Nations that has made it possible for the man to mobilise international opinion and resolve to return Kenya to normalcy.

Signs that the Kenyan dispute was likely to assume international dimension because of the country’s strategic importance in Africa came early in the dispute when the European Union made it clear that it was not satisfied with the way the poll tallying was done.

The EU was the first to threaten to impose sanctions on Kenya in case nothing was done to rectify the situation. Now Britain, the US and Canada are talking the same language, threatening to ban any individual who might have participated in rigging or violence from travelling to their countries.

Last week, the US issued banning letters to 10 politicians and business personalities whom it considers to have participated in either promoting violence or subverting the democratic process. The focus now is on individuals taking part in the mediation who may be deemed to have derailed the talks.

It is now apparent that the international community is reading from the same script and fears that the Kenyan crisis could overshadow or divert attention from complex cases like Darfur and Chad.

And, with the Kenyan crisis now being discussed at the UN Security Council, the matter has quickly taken on a global dimension.

In a statement, the Council said the only solution to the crisis was dialogue, negotiation and compromise, and strongly urged Kenya’s political leaders to foster reconciliation.

It reaffirmed its support for the African Union and the Panel of Eminent African Personalities led by Mr Annan in their efforts to stem the violence and requested Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report on how the United Nations could further support the mediation efforts in Kenya and mitigate the impact of the crisis on the wider region.

Meanwhile, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes arrived in Kenya on Friday. A fact-finding mission deployed by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour arrived in in the country last week.

The team will conduct research for an initial period of three weeks, as it works to assess allegations of recent grave human-rights violations in the country.

Kenya inayoelekea njia panda Amani au Mchafuko tena yote yapo mikononi kwa wakenya

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Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda akisalimiana na Mkurugenzi wa Utawala katika Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu, Immaculata Ngwalle, baada ya kuwasili kwenye ofisi yake mjini Dodoma jana kwa mara ya kwanza baada ya kuteliwa kwake. Kushoto ni Katibu Mkuu wa Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu, Vincent Mrisho na kulia kwa Waziri Mkuu ni Naibu Katibu Mkuu katika ofisi hiyo, Andrew Nyumayo. (Picha na Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu).

HABARI INAYOONGOZA LEO:: Kikwete atoboa siri RAIS Jakaya Kikwete amepasua jipu kwa kusema kuwa Baraza la Mawaziri alilolivunja lilishindwa kukidhi matarajio yake na ya

Mvua inapofanya kazi yake

Kilichotokea hapa
Dereve wa hiko scania alipotaka kupaki pembeni basi
likatitia taratibu bila kuguswa

Sweeping changes

JK kazi ni nzuri kaza buti na chukua tano

Tz leo

Rais JK ametangaza Baraza jipya la mawaziri, baada ya kuvunja baraza la mawaziri ya kufuatia Edward Lowasasa kujiuzulu baada ya kukumbwa na kashfa ya Richmond.

Akizungumza katika ukumbi wa Tamisemi mjini Dodoma amesema baraza hilo limepunguzwa na kubakia na Mawazirii 26 badala ya 29 wa awali na Manaibu 21 badala ya 31.

(Menejimenti utumishi wa umma)Hawa Ghasia.

(Ofisi ya Rais muungano)Seif Mohamed Khatib.

(Mazingira) Batilda Burian.

(Ofisi ya waziri mkuu utaratibu wa bunge)Philipo Marmo.

(Tamisemi Tawala za mikoa na serikali za mitaa)Stephen Wasira,naibu Serena Kombani.

(Wizara ya mipango na Fedha) Mustafa Mkulo, manaibu Jeremia Sumari, Omari Yusuph Mzee.

(Afya na ustawi wa jamii) Prof Mwakyusa, Naibu Asha Kigoda.

(Ardhi Nyumba na maendeleo ya makazi) John Chiligati.

(Elimu na mafunzo ya ufundi) Prof Jumanne Maghembe, Manaibu Gaudensia Kabaka , na Mwantum Mahiza.

(Mawasiliano na Sayansi na Technologia) Shukuru Kawambwa Naibu Maua Daftari.

(Miundo mbinu) Andrew Chenge Naibu Milton Mahanga.

(Habari Utamaduni na Michezo) George Huruma Mkuchika, Naibu Joel Bendera.

(Kazi Ajira na maendeleo ya Vijana) Prof Juma Kapuya Naibu Ezekiel Chibulunje.

(Maji na Umwagiliaji) Mark Mwandosya, Naibu wake ni Engineer Christopher Chiza.

(Kilimo Chakula na Ushirika) Peter Msola, Naibu Mathayo David Mathayo.

(Maendeleo ya jamii Jinsia na Watoto) Magreth Sitta naibu Lucy Nkya.

(Maendeleo ya mifugo na uvuvi) Johhn Pombe Magufuli, Naibu DR. James Wanyancha.

(Maliasili na utalii) Shamsa Mwangunga, Naibu Ezekiel Maige.

(Mambo ya Ndani) Lawrence Masha naibu Hamis Kagasheki.

(Wizara ya Sheria) Mhe. Chikawe.

(Mambo ya nje na Ushirikiano wa kimataifa) Bernard Membe, naibu Seif Ally Idi.

(Wizara ya madini) Wiliam Ngereje, Naibu ni Adam Malima.

(Wizara ya Ulinzi) Hussein Ally Mwinyi, Naibu Emmanuel Nchimbi.

(Wizara Ya Afrika Mashariki) DR. E Kamala.

(Viwanda na Masoko) Mary Nagu naibu Cyril Chami.

Awali kabla ya kutangaza baraza hilo Rais Kikwete alisema kuna mawaziri walioomba kupumzika baada ya kutumikia serikali kwa muda mrefu na watabaki katika kushauri tu.
ambao ni Mzee Kingunge Ngombare Mwiru, na Joseph Mungai.

• SOURCE: Alasiri

Ngoma bado nzito kwa watazamaji ,waliochaguliwa wameshajijua wenyewe

Masikio na macho ya Watanzania yako kwa Rais Kikwete na Baraza lake jipya la mawaziri.