* 1950 – Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician

The head of state is President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, elected in 2005.

In December 2005, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete was elected the 4th president for a five-year term.

| Jakaya Kikwete

In 2008, Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete tried to silence the matter when he addressed the nation in a live conference by saying that Zanzibar is a state internal but semi-state international.

He was succeeded by Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania on 31 January 2008.

* Jakaya Kikwete, the current President of Tanzania, has often been referred to as " Dr. Kikwete " for his honorary degree received from the University of St. Thomas ( Minnesota ) in 2006.

President Jakaya Kikwete appointed Mustafa Nyang ` anyi, a veteran politician and diplomat Ambassador as the Board Chairman and former Parastatal Pensions Fund Director General, David Mattaka as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.

* Led by President Jakaya Kikwete, in office since 21 December 2005

* Presidential election, 2005: Jakaya Kikwete ( CCM ) 80. 3 %

Ibrahim Lipumba placed a distant second to CCM candidate Jakaya Kikwete, winning 11. 68 % of the vote.

In 2010, the unsuccessful Chadema presidential candidate, Willibrod Peter Slaa, received 55. 6 % of the popular vote in the Moshi Urban District compared to 43. 5 % for the nationwide winner, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of the Chama cha Mapinduzi party.

In the national elections for Tanzania's presidency and National Assembly, held on 14 December 2005, Foreign Minister and CCM candidate Jakaya Kikwete won with 80. 28 % of the vote.

On 31 October 2010, Jakaya Kikwete is reelected president with 62. 8 % of the vote, while CCM obtains 186 out of the 239 direct seats.

Tanzania's current president, Jakaya Kikwete, has led the party since 2006.

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete ( born October 7, 1950 ) is a Tanzanian politician who has been the 4th President of Tanzania since December 2005.

George W. Bush welcomes Jakaya Kikwete in New York City.

His replacement, Abass Kandoro, was appointed that month by President Jakaya Kikwete.

They include President George W. Bush's visit in February 2008 ( the first ever official visit by a sitting U. S. president and the longest visit by a U. S. president in a single African nation ), Tanzania ’ s hosting of Sullivan Summit VIII ( the first Sullivan Summit in East Africa ), President Kikwete ’ s White House visit in August 2008, and the signing of the largest Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ) Compact in history.

Introducing candidate Kikwete at a campaign rally in Dar es Salaam on 21 August 2005, President Mkapa described him as a super-diplomat, in recognition of his role in the search for peace in neighboring Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Between 1959 and 1963, Kikwete went to Karatu Primary School in Tanzania before continuing with middle school education at Tengeru School from 1962 to 1965.

Similar forms of African socialism were introduced inter alia in Ghana by Kwame Nkrumah (" Consciencism ") and Tanzania by Julius Nyerere (" Ujamaa "), while in Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko, a much less " benevolent " ruler than Kaunda or Nyerere, was at a loss until he hit on the ideal ideology – ' Mobutuism '.

In a statement read out by its January President, Augustine Mahiga of Tanzania, the Council also called on Syria to take measures to stop movements of arms and personnel into Lebanon.

* 1925 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania

The President of Tanzania, and the members of the National Assembly, are elected concurrently by direct popular vote for five-year terms.

Judges are appointed by the Chief Justice of Tanzania, except for those of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, who are appointed by the President.

Politics of Tanzania takes place in a framework of a unitary presidential democratic republic, whereby the President of Tanzania is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, under the administration of President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania undertook a number of political and economic reforms.

* October 14 – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania ( b. 1922 )

* April 13 – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania ( d. 1999 )

" My plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism ", Raitt recalled.

* At Arusha, Tanzania, President Pierre Buyoya of Burundi and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the Hutu insurgents Forces for the Defense of Democracy ( FDD ), signed a cease-fire accord.

He has admitted to at one stage contemplating the assassination of Idi Amin while Foreign Secretary but settled instead to backing with money for arms purchases to President Nyerere of Tanzania in his armed attack on Uganda which led to the exile of Amin to Saudi Arabia.

Benjamin William Mkapa ( born November 12, 1938 ) was the third President of the United Republic of Tanzania ( 1995 – 2005 ) and former Chairman for the Revolutionary State Party ( Chama Cha Mapinduzi, CCM ).

Julius Kambarage Nyerere ( 13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999 ) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1961 until his retirement in 1985.

| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania

After the 1977 coup, a significant portion of the population ( including the deposed President Mancham ) fled to the UK and South Africa due to political persecution and fear of the new government's alignment with the Soviet Union, Tanzania and North Korea.

On June 8, 2007 President George W. Bush announced Mark Green's nomination to be Ambassador to Tanzania.

The colours of the flag have been specified by the Planning and Privatisation department of the President ’ s Office of Tanzania.

He was the second President of the United Republic of Tanzania from 1985 to 1995.

The President of the United Republic of Tanzania () is the head of state and head of government of Tanzania.