Anna Mghwira

Anna Mghwira
Regional Commissioner Kilimanjaro Region
In office
2016–2021
Appointed byJohn Magufuli
Preceded byLeonidas Gama
Succeeded byNicholas Kigaigai
Personal details
Bornorder
(1959-01-23)23 January 1959
Mungumaji, Tanganyika (now Tanzania)
Died22 July 2021(2021-07-22) (aged 62)
Mount Meru Hospital, Arusha
Resting placeorder
Political partyACT-Wazalendo
Other political
affiliations
CHADEMA
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Anna Elisha Mghwira (23 January 1959 – 22 July 2021[1]) was a Tanzanian politician and the one-time chair of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT), the youngest political party in Tanzania. She was educated in the United Kingdom at the University of Essex and the University of Dar es Salaam as well as Tumaini University.

In 2015, she was the sole female candidate to contest the presidential seat in Tanzania's general election in October that year.

  1. ^ "Former Kilimanjaro RC Anna Mghwira dead at 62". Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.