Asha Abdullah Juma (born 13 November 1950) is a

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands ...

i politician who is a Member of the

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of Tanzania. She served as a Chama Cha Mapinduzi Member of the

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, and as Minister for Labour, Youth Development, Women and Children in the

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, from 2005 to 2010. She was educated at the

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(MA Gender Analysis and Development, 2000) and the

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(MBA, 2013).

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