STAFF NOTES: MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000400050040-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: November 12, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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MIDDLE EAST -- AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
This publication is prepared for renlonal specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Arica Division. Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional convibutions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles,
Tanzania: Cabinet Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Tanzania
Cabinet S3tifto
President Julius Nyerere has reshuffled his
cabinet and added some new blood in the aftermath
of the recent general elections. The most notable
change is the shift of the regime's most articulate
ideologue, John Malecela, from foreign minister to
minister of agriculture. The US embassy in Dar es
Salaam sees Nyerere's total control of policy as
unchanged.
Malecela's transfer to agriculture reflects in
part Nyerere's determination to pursue his major
goal of completing the transformation of the rural
population from scattered subsistence peasants to
collectivized villagers. Early last year Nyerere
made a commitment to resettle Tanzania's entire
rural population of 14 million into Ujamaa villages
by the end of 1976. In the fall of 1974 concern
over food production and administrative difficulties
caused the government to delay the mass movement of
people into villages. Now that this year's harvest
is in, the government is likely to begin moving
people again, although Nyerere has recently announced
that the earlier goal of having villagers farm com-
munally would be in abeyance. With Malecel:.i, a
socialist stalwart, in charge, it probably will not
be long before the villagers are again pressured to
farm at least some of their lands collectively.
That could result in reduced food production and even
scattered resistance.
Ibrahim Kaduma, the new foreign minister, shares
Malecela's militant third world outlook, and the
embassy sees in his appointment no substantive shift
dealings with him.
in foreign policy direction. Kaduma may b,e easier
to get along with personally than Malecela, however.
He is well respected by USAID personnel who have had
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