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Edward Lowassa

Politician

Edward Lowassa is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Edward Lowassa · Edward Ngoyai Lowassa · Έντουαρντ Λογουάσα · Эдвард Ловасса · אדוארד לוואסה · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Edward Lowassa · Edward Ngoyai Lowasa · Edward Ngoyayi Lowasa · Edward Ngoyayi Lowassa · Lowassa Ngoyai Edward · 6 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Lowassa · エドワード・ロワサ · 爱德华·恩戈亚·洛瓦萨				[sources]
Birth date	1953-08-26				[sources]
Place of birth	Arusha				[sources]
Death date	2024-02-10				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Tanzania				[sources]
Country	Tanzania				[sources]
Citizenship	Tanzania				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Edward				[sources]
Last name	Lowassa				[sources]
Political association	Party of the Revolution				[sources]
Title	The Right Honourable				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q451885				[sources]
Position	Member of the National Assembly of Tanzania · National Assembly (member, 2005-2010) · National Assembly (member, 2010-2015) · Prime Minister of Tanzania (2005-2008)				[sources]
Education	University of Bath · University of Dar es Salaam				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-19	Last processed	2026-01-19	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Tanzanian politician (1953–2024)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-03-20

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Assembly	-	-
Prime Minister of Tanzania	2005-12-30	2008-02-09

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,576

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,938

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,490

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-c91a12e6-9ed4-4e66-a8b3-908d145d39a0

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