Augustine Mahiga
| Dr Augustine Mahiga | |
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| 14th Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 12 December 2015 |
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| President | John Magufuli |
| Preceded by | Bernard Membe |
| United Nations Special Envoy for Somalia | |
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In office 9 June 2010 – 3 June 2013 |
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| Appointed by | Ban Ki-moon |
| Preceded by | Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah |
| Succeeded by | Nicholas Kay |
| Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations | |
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In office 2003–2010 |
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| Preceded by | Daudi Mwakawago |
| Succeeded by | Ombeni Sefue |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 August 1945 |
| Nationality | Tanzanian |
| Political party | CCM |
| Alma mater |
UDSM (BA) UToronto (MA), (PhD) |
Augustine Philip Mahiga (born 28 August 1945) is a Tanzanian diplomat who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tanzania since 2015. He previously served as the Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations from 2003 to 2010 and as the UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia from 2010 to 2013.
In December 2015, he was nominated as a Member of Parliament by President John Magufuli and thereafter appointed to the Cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Mahiga was born in 1945. In 1971, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (Education) at the University of East Africa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. That same year, Mahiga completed a Masters of Arts at the University of Toronto (U of T). He also received a PhD in International Relations in 1975 from the same institution.
Mahiga is married and has three children.
Mahiga served as Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations from 2003 to 2010.
Between 2010 and 2013, he also served as the United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Political Office for Somalia. He was appointed to the positions by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on 9 June 2010, replacing Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah.
On 9 June 2011, Mahiga, along with the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, oversaw a signed agreement in Kampala between Somalia's incumbent President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden. After months of political infighting over whether to hold presidential elections in August 2011, the two politicians agreed to postpone the vote for a new President and parliamentary Speaker for one year in exchange for the resignation of the Premier within a period of thirty days. The signed Kampala Accord would also see the well-regarded technocratic Cabinet that Prime Minister of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed had assembled in November 2010 re-composed to make way for a new government. Political analysts have suggested that the agreement may have been a bid on President Sharif Ahmed's part to fend off attempts by the Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan to force him from power by pre-emptively "sacrificing" the Premier. Sharif Hassan is also reported to harbour presidential ambitions of his own.
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