Yearbook 2006
Tanzania. In January, newly-elected President Jakaya
Kikwete presented a government with a strengthened
representation of women. Of 29 ministers, seven are women -
three more than before - and of 30 deputy prime ministers,
ten are women. According to
CountryAAH, heavy ministries such as the Ministry of
Finance and Foreign Affairs got female managers.
In April, the new Vice President Ali Shein ordered
farmers and livestock herders living in nature-protected
areas to leave immediately. Other environmental measures
were to encourage municipalities and companies to plant
trees and to prohibit the use of thin plastic bags in stores
and in marketplaces. However, the protection of the
environment was also taken as motivation to start deporting
people from Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda who were accused of
illegally staying in Tanzania. In many cases it was about
people who were born in the country and who were previously
treated as citizens by, for example, get to participate in
general elections. Thousands were threatened with banishment
on questionable grounds.
Oppositionists in the semi-autonomous archipelago of
Zanzibar turned to court in April with a request that the
1964 Union Treaty between the islands and the then
Tanganyika be annulled. They argued that the Union lacked
legal grounds. Their request was rejected by the court, but
they announced that the attempts to get the Union dissolved
went ahead. The same court, the High Court, ruled that
party-bound candidates have the right to stand in
presidential and parliamentary elections. The message was
welcomed by the opposition, which considered it would reduce
CCM's great dominance. The government appealed the decision.
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