{"id":22543,"date":"2021-01-28T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=22543"},"modified":"2021-01-28T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:50:02","slug":"magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality","title":{"rendered":"MAGUFULI UPGRADES KAHAMA INTO MUNICIPALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> President John Magufuli has upgraded Kahama town into a municipality effective today.<\/p>\n<p>He made the changes today when addressing Kahama residents after being impressed by the hard work done by the district council leaders in revenue collection and other initiatives in bringing development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have all the reasons for raising this council into a municipality in the entire region of Shinyanga. 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He made the changes today when addressing Kahama residents after being impressed by the hard work done by the district council leaders in revenue collection and other initiatives in bringing development. &#8220;I have all the reasons for raising this council into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[24,7133],"class_list":["post-22543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-john-magufuli","tag-underson-msumba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MAGUFULI UPGRADES KAHAMA INTO MUNICIPALITY - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President John Magufuli has upgraded Kahama town into a municipality effective today.He made the changes today when addressing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MAGUFULI UPGRADES KAHAMA INTO MUNICIPALITY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President John Magufuli has upgraded Kahama town into a municipality effective today.He made the changes today when addressing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-28T19:50:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/abfdb91902a0de82e0ca4b3d95c25c47.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"635\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MAGUFULI UPGRADES KAHAMA INTO MUNICIPALITY\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-28T19:50:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality\"},\"wordCount\":149,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/01\/abfdb91902a0de82e0ca4b3d95c25c47.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"John Magufuli\",\"Underson Msumba\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-upgrades-kahama-into-municipality\",\"name\":\"MAGUFULI UPGRADES KAHAMA INTO MUNICIPALITY - 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