TANZANIAN President Benjamin Mkapa retained most of his key ministers except the finance minister in a new cabinet unveiled this week. Mkapa, whose Chama Cha Mapinduzi party won last month’s disputed polls, named former 1980s trade minister Basil Mramba the new Minister of Finance, in place of Daniel Yona, who took charge of poverty eradication. Mkapa was elected for a second five-year term in October in controversial elections marred by accusations of fraud and violence in the semi-autonomous Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar. – Reuters
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