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See also:	Other events of 2021 Timeline of Tanzanian history

Events of 2021 in Tanzania.

Incumbents

• President
  • John Magufuli, died March 17^[1]
  • Samia Suluhu, starting March 17
• Vice-President:
  • Samia Suluhu, until March 17
• Vice-President: Philip Mpango
• Prime Minister: Kassim Majaliwa
• Chief Justice: Ibrahim Hamis Juma

Events

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania

January to March

• 16 January – The French Embassy announces it is working with the Association of the Tanzanian Diaspora Living in France to promote the Kiswahili language.^[2]
• 19 January – The United States puts visa restrictions on unnamed Tanzanian officials because of responsibility or complicity in irregularities and violence in the 2020 Tanzanian general election.^[3]
• 25 January – A man is arrested in Austria trying to smuggle seventy-four protected chameleons from Tanzania. Three died, but the rest were taken to the Schönbrunn Zoo.^[4]
• 27 January – President John Magufuli expresses doubts about the COVID-19 vaccines on January 27 during a speech in Chato, Geita Region.^[5]
• 23 February – Maskless Finance Minister Philip Mpango coughs his way through a press conference to announce he is not dead a few days after President Magufuli acknowledged COVID-19 in real.^[6]
• 10 March – Opposition leader Tundu Lissu demands answers about the health and whereabouts of President John Magufuli, 61, who has not been seen in public since 27 February.^[7]
• 15 March – Four people are arrested for spreading rumors that President Magufuli is ill, despite his not being seen in public in four weeks.^[8]
• 17 March - President John Magufuli dies; Vice-President Samia Suluhu takes over.^[1]
• 21 March - 45 people are killed in a stampede at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam.^[9][10]
• 28 March – President Samia Suluhu Hassan orders the suspension of the head of the ports authority over corruption allegations.^[11]
• 30 March – President Hassan picks Philip Mpango, the finance minister, to be her deputy.^[12]
• 25 August – A gunman shoots dead three police officers and a security guard in Dar es Salaam.^[13][14]

Culture

Deaths

• 17 January – Ilunga 'CPwaa' Khalifa, 38, rapper; pneumonia.^[15]
• 20 January – Julius Sang′udi, deputy commissioner of prisons.^[15]
• 21 January – Martha Umbulla, 65, politician.^[15]
• 21 January – Prudence Karugendo, writer and political analyst.^[15]
• 22 January – Emanuel Maganga, former Kigoma Region commissioner.^[15]
• 23 January – Ireneus Kaganda Mbahulira, 78, bishop.^[15]
• 25 January – Gregory Teu, 69, former deputy minister.^[15]
• 12 February – Atashasta Justus Nditiye, 51, former deputy minister; complications after traffic accident.^[16]
• 12 February – Harith Bakari Mwapachu, 81, former minister.^[16]
• 13 February – Regina Rweyemamu, former High Court judge.^[17]
• 15 February – Muhammed Seif Khatib, 70, former minister and owner of Zenji FM.^[18]
• 17 February – Seif Sharif Hamad, 77, First Vice President of Zanzibar and ACT chairman; COVID-19.^[19]
• 17 February – John Kijazi, 64, chief secretary to the President, chancellor of University of Dodoma; heart attack.^[20]
• 20 February – Servacius Likwelile, 63, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance.^[21]
• 22 February – Benno Ndulu, 71, former governor of the Bank of Tanzania.^[22]
• 25 February – Arthur Shoo, Secretary-General, Northern Diocese, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.^[23]
• 17 March – John Magufuli, 61, President; heart complications.^[1]
• 6 April – Alfred Maluma, 65, Catholic bishop of Njombe; traffic accident.^[24]
• 28 April – Moses Beatus Mlula, defence adviser at the High Commission of Tanzania in New Delhi; COVID-19.^[25]
• 18 May – Tumainiel Kiwelu, 79, former commander and chief of staff in the Tanzania People's Defence Force during the Uganda–Tanzania War.^[26]
• 29 June – Patrick Mfugale, 70 or 71, CEO of Tanzania Roads Agency.^[27]
• 22 July – Anna Mghwira, 62, former regional commissioner of Kilimanjaro Region.^[28]
• 30 July – Ambilikile Mwasapile, also known as Babu wa Loliondo, former Lutheran priest turned discoverer of miracle potion.^[29]
• 2 August – Elias John Kwandikwa, 55, Minister for Defence and National Service.^[30]
• 17 August – Basil Mramba, 81, former finance minister; COVID-19.^[31]
• 27 September – William Olenasha, 49, politician.^[32]
• 18 November – 'Nick' Al Noor Kassum Sunderji, 97, former politician and university chancellor.^[33]
• 18 December – 'Baharia' Issa, 64, politician.^[34]