Damas Daniel Ndumbaro (born 14 June 1971) is a Tanzanian politician, lawyer and cabinet Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. He was a Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism and a politician who presently serves as a Chama Cha Mapinduzi's Member of Parliament for Songea Urban constituency for the second term since 2015. Also was the acting

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of the

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since March 2013. He was an Advocate and a Lecturer of law at the

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before joining politics and won a majority vote election in Songea Urban constituency under the ruling party CCM.

Political career

In 2018, he was appointed by President

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, as the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation. In December 2020 after the 2020 general election, in Magufuli's 2nd cabinet he was appointed the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism. He continued in this docket following the death of Magufuli, however, in April 2022 he was made the new Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Justice in

Samia Suluhu Samia Suluhu Hassan (born 27 January 1960) is a Tanzanian politician who has been serving since 19 March 2021 as the sixth (and first female) president of Tanzania. She is a member of the ruling social-democrat Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) part ...

's cabinet. On 1 September 2023, following Samia Suluhu's cabinet reshfulle, he assumed the new post as Minister of Culture, Arts and Sports.

References

Living people Tanzanian academics University of Dar es Salaam alumni Open University of Tanzania alumni Chama Cha Mapinduzi MPs Tanzanian MPs 2015–2020 Tanzanian MPs 2020–2025 Deputy government ministers of Tanzania Government ministers of Tanzania 1971 births Tanzanian Roman Catholics Academic staff of the Open University of Tanzania {{Tanzania-politician-stub