{"id":26379,"date":"2021-09-14T06:32:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=26379"},"modified":"2021-09-14T06:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:32:35","slug":"tanzania-gets-first-woman-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/tanzania-gets-first-woman-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Gets First Woman Defence Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania&#8217;s President Samia Suluhu has announced the country&#8217;s first woman defence minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stergomena Tax replaces Elias Kwandikwa, who died in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president also revoked the appointment of three cabinet ministers and appointed a new attorney general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those sacked are the Communication Minister Faustine Ndugulile, Leonard Chamuriho (transport) and Medard Kalemani (energy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Suluhu brought back January Makamba whose appointment had been revoked by former President John Magufuli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Makamba will now head the energy ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president appointed Judge Eliezer Feleshi as the new attorney general to replace Adelardus Kilangi who has been appointed an ambassador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s President Samia Suluhu has announced the country&#8217;s first woman defence minister. Stergomena Tax replaces Elias Kwandikwa, who died in August. The president also revoked the appointment of three cabinet ministers and appointed a new attorney general. Those sacked are the Communication Minister Faustine Ndugulile, Leonard Chamuriho (transport) and Medard Kalemani (energy). President Suluhu brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":26381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[6894],"class_list":["post-26379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-samia-suluhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26382,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26379\/revisions\/26382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}