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Tanzania: Political System

Tanzania is a federal presidential republic in the Commonwealth. The unicameral parliament currently has 274 members. 232 of these are elected, 37 female MPs are elected by the President and another 5 are elected by Zanzibar/ Pemba. See AbbreviationFinder for more information about Tanzania politics, and acronyms as well.

The election takes place every five years. The head of state is also directly elected every five years; re-election is possible once. Zanzibar/Pemba have their own parliament with 75 members. The official name of the country is:

National anthem

National flag

The national flag (country flag) of Tanzania was officially introduced on June 30, 1964. Based on flag descriptions by Countryaah.com, the four colors of the flag are interpreted as follows:

- Green symbolized the fertility of the country

- The black stripe represented the African population.

- The narrow golden horizontal stripes stand for the rich natural resources

- Blue symbolizes the sky and the Indian Ocean

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Tanzania: Known People

Freddie Mercury (1946-1991)

Freddie Mercury was one of the most famous musicians of the 1970s and 1980s. The British frontman of the rock band Queen was born in 1946 as Farrokh Bulsara in the Tanzian city of Zanzibar as the son of a Parsi family from India.

David Adjaye (born 1966)

Adjaye is a renowned English architect who was born in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, in 1966. His father worked there as a Ghanaian diplomat.

Roald Dahl ( 1916-1990)

The famous British writer who became famous with books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach lived and fought in Dar es Salaam for five years during World War II.

John Garang de Mabior (1945-2005)

John Garang de Mabior was one of the most famous South Sudanese rebel leaders. The politician received his secondary education in Tanzania as a child. He also worked from 1967 at the Tanzanian University of Dar Es Salaam.

Laurent-Désiré Kabila (1939-2001)

Kabila was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1997 to 2001. The Congolese politician completed his studies in Tanzania's largest city at the University of Dar es Salaam.

Amani Abeid Karume (born 1948)

Karuma, President and son of the first President of Zanzibar, Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume, was elected to his current office in October 2000 with around 67% and was confirmed in 2005.

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (born 1950)

The politician who has been President of Tanzania since 2005 was born in Msoga. Kikwete received about 80% of the vote in the December 2005 presidential election and was re-elected with about 60% in October 2010. His terms in office, but also the political time before that, were overshadowed by allegations of corruption.

Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro (born 1956)

Born in the Tanzanian Songea, Asha-Rose Migiro was a lawyer and politician who has been Deputy Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon since 2007. After the Canadian Louise Fréchette, Migiro is the (only) second woman to hold this position. She is very involved in the fight for women's rights, for freedom of the press and in questions of the flight of Africans to Europe.

Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella (born 1945)

Gertrude Mongella, the first female President of the Pan-African Parliament of the African Union since 2004, was born in 1945 in Ukerewe, a Tanzanian city on Lake Victoria. Before her current position, she worked as a diplomat for the United Nations and, among other things, chaired the UN World Conference on Women until 1995.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (born 1944)

Museveni comes from Ntungamo, Uganda, and has been President of Uganda since 1986. He was confirmed in his office in 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2011. He completed his studies in law, economics and political science in 1970 at the Tanzanian University of Dar es Salaam. He also lived as an exile in Tanzania from 1971 to 1980.

Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda (born 1948)

The city of Mpanda is in the Rukwa region. It was there in 1948 that Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda was born, who has served as Prime Minister of Tanzania since 2008 and replaced Edward Lowassa, who had resigned on allegations of corruption.

Tanzania: animals

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Tanzania: plants

Trees

A large part of the country consists of dry forests, wet and dry savannas, in which umbrella acacias and baobab trees (baobab) grow. The savannas can be divided into grasslands and tree savannas. There are also tropical rainforests in the mountains in the south and west of the country. The remaining landscapes are semi-deserts and coastal plains, which are partly covered by mangrove swamps with mangrove trees that serve as coastal protection. Other trees worth mentioning are acacias, flame trees, jacaranda trees, liver sausage trees, mango trees, palms, tamarind trees, desert date trees, shrub Sodom's apple.

More plants

Mexican prickly poppies, grasslands, dog-tooth grass, jasmine, around 40 different types of orchid, narrow-leaved cattails, the papyrus plant grows in the papyrus swamps. Between Mount Meru and the Ngurdoto Crater lies the area of the Momella Lakes, which is characterized by swamps, grassy areas and mountain forests. The mountain slopes are covered with tropical rainforest and cloud forest.