2022 in Tanzania

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See also:	Other events of 2022 Timeline of Tanzanian history

Events of 2022 in Tanzania.

Incumbents

• President
  • Samia Suluhu
• Vice-President:
  • Philip Mpango
• Prime Minister: Kassim Majaliwa
• Chief Justice: Ibrahim Hamis Juma

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania; 2022 Africa floods

• 19 March – Twenty-two people are killed and 38 more injured during a bus–truck collision in Melela Kibaoni, Morogoro Region, Tanzania.^[1]
• 24 March – The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.^[2]
• 5 October – Lawyers for Maasai herders, who say the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land to make way for a luxury game reserve, have lodged an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case.^[3]
• 23 October – A fire, spread by strong winds, occurs on the slopes of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro.^[4]
• 6 November – Precision Air Flight 494^[5]

Culture

See also: 2022 in African music

Sports

• 2021–22 Tanzanian Premier League
• Tanzania at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Deaths

• 10 February – Mwele Ntuli Malecela, 58, civil servant
• 23 December – Sir Ashok Jivraj Rabheru, 70, Tanzanian-born British businessman^[6]

See also

• 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
• COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
• East African Community
• International Conference on the Great Lakes Region

References

1. "Tanzania bus and truck collision kills at least 22: Presidency". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
2. "Polio vaccination campaign kicks off in Malawi and neighboring countries". News-Medical.net. 2022-03-24. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
3. "'Shocking blow to Indigenous land rights' as court dismisses Maasai herder claim". the Guardian. 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
4. Salaam, Agence France-Presse in Dar es (2022-10-23). "Firefighters tackle blaze on Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
5. "At least 19 people dead after plane crashes into Lake Victoria". the Guardian. 6 November 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
6. Bhat, Chandrashekar (25 December 2022). "Genisys Group founder Sir Ashok Rabheru, 70, dies". EasternEye.

External links

• Media related to 2022 in Tanzania at Wikimedia Commons