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Mohamed Mchengerwa

Tanzanian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ31752864 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mohamed Mchengerwa (born September 1, 1979) is a current member of the Tanzanian Cabinet and is a Minister in the president's office in Tanzania. He is a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi political party. He was elected MP representing Rufiji in 2015.

Political career

Mchengerwa got his first major cabinet position following the formation of Samia Suluhu Hassan first cabinet on March 31, 2021. He was sworn in as the Minister of State in the Presidents office for Public Service Management and Good Governance. Following the cabinet reshuffle in January 2022, Mchengerwa switched dockets with Innocent Bashungwa and assumed the position of Minister of Culture, Artists and Sports.

In February 2023, he switched dockets with Pindi Chana and became the new Minister of Natural resources and Tourism. In September 2023, in the third cabinet reshuffle, he switched dockets with Angellah Kairuki and assumed a position in the President's office and the minister for Regional Administration and Local Government.

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“Mohamed Mchengerwa” enters the record as tanzanian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mohamed, Mchengerwa and Tanzanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2015, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-09-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mohamed, Mchengerwa and Tanzanian.
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“Mohamed Mchengerwa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mohamed, Mchengerwa and Tanzanian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q31752864. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2015, 2021 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohamed Mchengerwa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.