Sunday, October 12, 2014

Happy Birthday Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka

Happy Birthday Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka (born 12 October). Born in Tanzania, Tibaijuka studied agricultural economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and is fluent in English, Swahili, Swedish and French. She is the widow of the former Tanzanian ambassador Wilson Tibaijuka, who died in 2000. She is the second highest ranking African woman in the UN after Dr Asha-Rose Migiro, the deputy UN secretary general (who is also a Tanzanian). In October 2010 she became MP for CCM for Muleba District, Kagera Region, in the national election.                             Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council-
The steering committee of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council elected Anna Tibaijuka as its new chair on 19 October 2010. Tibaijuka succeeded Roberto Lenton, whose second and final term of office ended in March 2011.

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