The first inauguration of Jakaya Kikwete as the 4th president of Tanzania took place on Wednesday, 21 December 2005. It marked the commencement of the first five-year term of Jakaya Kikwete as President and Ali Mohamed Shein as Vice President.[1]
Date | 21 December 2005 |
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Location | Uhuru Stadium, Dar es Salaam |
Participants | President Jakaya Kikwete Ali Mohamed Shein |
Kikwete won the 2005 presidential election by a landslide receiving 80.28 percent of the popular vote.[2][3]
Heads of state and government | ||
Botswana | President | Festus Mogae |
Burundi | President | Pierre Nkurunziza |
Comoros | President | Azali Assoumani |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | President | Joseph Kabila |
Ethiopia | Prime Minister | Meles Zenawi |
Kenya | President | Mwai Kibaki |
Lesotho | King | Letsie III |
Malawi | President | Bingu wa Mutharika |
Mozambique | President | Armando Guebuza |
Rwanda | President | Paul Kagame |
South Africa | President | Thabo Mbeki |
Sudan | President | Omar al-Bashir |
Uganda | President | Yoweri Museveni |
Zambia | President | Levy Mwanawasa |
Zimbabwe | President | Robert Mugabe |
Government leaders | ||
Angola | Foreign Minister | João Bernardo de Miranda[4] |
South Africa | Foreign Minister | Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma[5] |
United States | Assistant Secretary of State | Jendayi Frazer |
Former leaders | ||
Kenya | President | Daniel arap Moi |
Tanzania | President | Ali Hassan Mwinyi |