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List of events
Events of
2021 in
Tanzania .
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing –
COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania
January to March
16 January – The
French Embassy announces it is working with the Association of the Tanzanian Diaspora Living in France to promote the
Kiswahili language.
[2]
19 January – The United States puts visa restrictions on unnamed Tanzanian officials because of responsibility or complicity in irregularities and violence in the
2020 Tanzanian general election .
[3]
25 January – A man is arrested in Austria trying to smuggle seventy-four protected
chameleons from Tanzania. Three died, but the rest were taken to the
Schönbrunn Zoo .
[4]
27 January – President John Magufuli expresses doubts about the
COVID-19 vaccines on January 27 during a speech in
Chato, Geita Region .
[5]
23 February – Maskless Finance Minister
Philip Mpango coughs his way through a press conference to announce he is not dead a few days after President Magufuli acknowledged COVID-19 in real.
[6]
10 March – Opposition leader
Tundu Lissu demands answers about the health and whereabouts of President John Magufuli, 61, who has not been seen in public since 27 February.
[7]
15 March – Four people are arrested for spreading rumors that President Magufuli is ill, despite his not being seen in public in four weeks.
[8]
17 March - President
John Magufuli dies; Vice-President
Samia Suluhu takes over.
[1]
21 March - 45 people are killed in a
stampede at
Uhuru Stadium in
Dar es Salaam .
[9]
[10]
28 March – President
Samia Suluhu Hassan orders the suspension of the head of the ports authority over corruption allegations.
[11]
30 March – President Hassan picks Philip Mpango, the finance minister, to be her deputy.
[12]
25 August – A gunman
shoots dead three
police officers and a
security guard in
Dar es Salaam .
[13]
[14]
Culture
Deaths
17 January – Ilunga 'CPwaa' Khalifa, 38, rapper;
pneumonia .
[15]
20 January – Julius Sang′udi, deputy commissioner of prisons.
[15]
21 January –
Martha Umbulla , 65, politician.
[15]
21 January – Prudence Karugendo, writer and political analyst.
[15]
22 January – Emanuel Maganga, former
Kigoma Region commissioner.
[15]
23 January – Ireneus Kaganda Mbahulira, 78, bishop.
[15]
25 January –
Gregory Teu , 69, former deputy minister.
[15]
12 February –
Atashasta Justus Nditiye , 51, former deputy minister; complications after traffic accident.
[16]
12 February –
Harith Bakari Mwapachu , 81, former minister.
[16]
13 February – Regina Rweyemamu, former
High Court judge.
[17]
15 February –
Muhammed Seif Khatib , 70, former minister and owner of Zenji FM.
[18]
17 February –
Seif Sharif Hamad , 77, First Vice President of Zanzibar and ACT chairman;
COVID-19 .
[19]
17 February –
John Kijazi , 64, chief secretary to the
President , chancellor of
University of Dodoma ; heart attack.
[20]
20 February – Servacius Likwelile, 63, former Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of Finance .
[21]
22 February –
Benno Ndulu , 71, former governor of the
Bank of Tanzania .
[22]
25 February – Arthur Shoo, Secretary-General, Northern Diocese,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania .
[23]
17 March –
John Magufuli , 61, President; heart complications.
[1]
6 April –
Alfred Maluma , 65, Catholic bishop of
Njombe ; traffic accident.
[24]
28 April – Moses Beatus Mlula, defence adviser at the High Commission of Tanzania in
New Delhi ; COVID-19.
[25]
18 May – Tumainiel Kiwelu, 79, former commander and chief of staff in the
Tanzania People's Defence Force during the
Uganda–Tanzania War .
[26]
29 June –
Patrick Mfugale , 70 or 71, CEO of Tanzania Roads Agency.
[27]
22 July –
Anna Mghwira , 62, former regional commissioner of Kilimanjaro Region.
[28]
30 July –
Ambilikile Mwasapile , also known as Babu wa Loliondo, former Lutheran priest turned discoverer of miracle potion.
[29]
2 August –
Elias John Kwandikwa , 55, Minister for Defence and National Service.
[30]
17 August –
Basil Mramba , 81, former finance minister; COVID-19.
[31]
27 September –
William Olenasha , 49, politician.
[32]
18 November –
'Nick' Al Noor Kassum Sunderji , 97, former politician and university chancellor.
[33]
18 December –
'Baharia' Issa , 64, politician.
[34]
See also
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