NAIROBI, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday named the East African country’s ambassador to China, Khamis Mussa Omar, as the finance minister in her new cabinet after last month’s disputed election.
In a televised address, Hassan said she had retained Anthony Mavunde as mining minister and Mahmoud Thabit Kombo as foreign affairs minister in her cabinet.
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Hassan was declared the landslide winner of the October election, but the vote was marred by clashes with security forces over the exclusion of her main challengers.
Rights groups and opposition parties say hundreds were killed in the clashes, though the government disputes those figures as exaggerated.
Reporting by George Obulutsa and Vincent Mumo Nzilani;
Editing by Alexander Winning
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