H.E. Ms. Angellah Jasmine Mbelwa Kairuki

H.E. Ms. Angellah Jasmine Mbelwa Kairuki

ANGELLAH JASMINE MBELWA KAIRUKI

Member of Parliament for Kibamba Constituency;

Chairperson of the National Advisory and Monitoring Committee on Generation Equality Forum Implementation in Tanzania, which was established by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Her Excellency Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, the GEF Global Champion. From 2024 to date;

⁠ECDAN champion for Early Childhood Development;

Current Cabinet of Ministers, she serves as the Minister of Communication and Information Technology from November 2025 to date;

Further (between October 2022 and August 2024), she served as the Minister of State in the President’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government) and Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, respectively;

Also Served as Advisor to the President of the United Republic of Tanzania;

In the previous Administrations (2010-2020), she served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office in charge of Investments, the Minister of Minerals, and the Minister of State in The President’s Office is in charge of Public Service Management and Good Governance; Deputy Minister of Land, Housing, and Human Settlement and Deputy Minister of Constitutional and Legal Affairs;

Before entering politics, she worked as a Parliamentary Draftsman in the Attorney General’s Chambers and as a State Attorney in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution;

Thereafter, she joined the Private Sector as Head of the Department of Ethics, Compliance, and Governance at VODACOM Group PTY. In 2012, she was on Forbes Magazine’s 20 Young Power Africans Women’s list. In 2013 and 2014, I was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum;

Law graduate, an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania, and a Member of the Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators;

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    Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Tanzania
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    Minister
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