Tanzania

Following meetings with leaders of opposition Chadema party, President Jakaya Kikwete announced that the government would submit a bill to the National Assembly which will amend the Constitutional Review Act. The National Assembly, which is dominated by Kikwete's Chama Cha Mapinduzi, approved the act, which will guide the country's constitution-making process, in late 2011, despite vehement opposition from Chadema. The main source of Chadema's concern was that the act gave Kikwete complete power to appoint members of the Constitutional Review Commission. The amendment bill will reportedly see the president elect the members of the committee from a list put together

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