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 * Tanzania**

President: Jakaya Kikwete

References:
 * George Bush, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton from the US
 * AU - Was appointed head of the AU for a term.
 * Kenya - They share many views on global issues

Tanzania is relatively flat towards the center of the country, with mountainous highlands to the north and south of the country. With Mount Kilimanjaro in this area, tourism is heightened since most think it is an easy climb, though it in fact isn't. Aside from this tourism racking in some money, most of the country's economy is heavily weighted on agriculture. With roughly 60% of the population of 44 million people working in agriculture, a lot of people work in agriculture, mostly subsistence farming. The major religions in this country are Christianity and Islam.

Kikwete, the current president of Tanzania, is very well liked within and out of the country. He learned economics while at school and trained in the military at Tanzania's top military training institution, Tanzania Military Academy, to become better with his leadership skills. He became lieutenant upon completing the course at the academy. A few years later, he came back to the academy to train to become a colonel, gaining the rank lieutenant-colonel. During his military contributions, he started going into politics at the academy. Since then, he has decided to go full-time into politics, slowing climbing up the ladder of political fame, working in departments such as energy resourcing, treasury and foreign affairs. In 2005, Kikwete became Tanzania's fourth president by a landslide victory of 80%.

Ibrahim Index (55) - With Tanzania marked 16th on the index does not necessarily mean that the country should not get the prize. Compared to the other countries, Tanzania marks high in the second quartile in the ranking.

Safety and Rule of Law (62) - Tanzania scores mid-high range in this category
 * Personal Safety (51)
 * Rule of Law (55) - Rule of law here is acknowledged, but most likely with most poverty-stricken areas, crime to attain money is high.
 * Accountability and Corruption (48) - Kikwete aims to stop all corruption because he realizes that it wastes many precious things. He reformed the legislation and increased the staff to prevent corruption.
 * National Security (93) - This grade is relatively high. The Tanzanian police and Tanzania Peoples Defence Forces (TPDF) have a good handle within the country. An example of this is when the election that was coming up in 2010 had stirred up tensions within the country that could have led to a civil war was stopped with the help of the police and TPDF.

Participation and Human Rights (56) - Tanzania scores mid-high range in this category
 * Participation (52) - Although the people know how to reach out to the government, there is a bit of issue over having a structure on the government meeting the people. Elections were held, which allows citizens to partake in
 * Rights (50) - Tanzania has high freedom to speak out, even stirring up trouble at points.
 * Gender (67) - Most of the womens' rights are contributed to tradition in tribes, where females did not have as much power, but there are attempts to stop this inequality. It is all a matter of whether people choose their tradition over their government or vice versa. There are a few groups that have cropped up to combat this problem.

Sustainable Economic Opportunity (53) - Although Tanzania has one of the poorest economies in the world, the work of Kikwete has increased the GDP by 7%. Kikwete has started a seven year program (worth about 2.1 billion USD) to start modernizing agriculture to be more effective (through irrigation) and to produce more, which would help the economy generate more money.
 * Public Management (64)
 * Private Sector (62) - Tanzania is investing in these private sectors in order to increase economic growth.
 * Infrastructure (18) - Although Tanzania scores low here, Kikwete has plans to increase infrastructure by putting it at the number two spot for where development should be, after education. Kikwete wishes to make roads better so farmers have more ease of access to moving food to markets and other places by making a road budget and giving money to rural areas to make passable roads that open up new areas to the people. Electricity demands have also increased and the president is increasing how much power they are using. The president has suspended buying vehicles for the government to supply tractors for farmers and is smart in finding that when the farmers pay back the tractor, they will just buy more tractors for more farmers.
 * Environment and the Rural Sector (67) - Much of Tanzania is rural, saving the biggest cities in few areas.

Human Development (49)
 * Health and Welfare (57) - Kikwete puts health care third in his list of needing the most attention.
 * Education (41) - Kikwete believes that education is the where most of the development budget should be going

Foreign relations with this country has almost always been positive. Tanzania houses many refugees from many countries. At one point, Kenya had expressed concern when the presidents of the US and Tanzania were talking about Kenya, but overall they have a good relation.

Works Cited:

Mosoba, Thomas. "Tanzania: National Security Forces Warn Against Election Chaos."AllAfrica.com: Home. 01 Oct. 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. .

"SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI DURING THE OFFICIAL DINNER IN HONOUR OF PRESIDENT JAKAYA KIKWETE OF TANZANIA AT THE GRAND REGENCY HOTEL, NAIROBI, ON 24TH MARCH, 2006." //The Official Website of State House, Kenya//. 24 Mar. 2006. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. .

"Tanzania." //U.S. Department of State//. 13 Dec. 2010. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. .

"Tanzania Country Profile." //BBC News//. 13 Jan. 2011. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. .


 * "Tanzania: Kikwete Hopeful for Action On Climate Change, Optimistic On Africa's Future." //AllAfrica.com//. 18 Dec. 2009. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. .