Tanzania’s new High Commissioner in London is H.E. Mwanaidi Sinare Maajar. The previous HC, Mr Hassan Omar Kibelloh, has been transferred to Paris.

Ms Maajar, the new Tanzanian High Commissioner in London

Mrs Maajar is an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania her main activities having been in the fields of corporate and commercial law. She is also a past chairperson of the ‘Social Action Trust Fund’ which aims to promote private sector investment. Mrs. Maajar worked earlier with Coopers & Lybrand, now PriceWaterhouseCoopers, as a Corporate Legal Advisor. She was then promoted to the grade of Senior Manager and Head of the Legal and Business Development Department. From 1978 to 1983 Mrs. Maajar joined the Central Bank of Tanzania as a Legal Advisor attached to the ‘Company Matters Department’ under the Directorate of Exchange Control. She founded her own private practice, known as M/s Maajar Law Office, in 1991. She has three children.