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Reparations is a big word, 11 letters. But the shorter word it comes from – repair – strikes me as even bigger.As a noun, reparations suggests that a decision has been reached about concrete actions to redress past wrongs.As a verb, repair is a process. That’s where the hard work happens to restore, renew, make whole. But history is history. We can’t go back and undo the horrors of the middle passage or the sundering of families at slave auctions.What restoration is possible centuries later?A first step can be looking back and taking an honest accounting of the past. That’s what researchers working with Saint Louis University are doing to learn about those enslaved by Jesuits at the school.Yet no amount of looking back can recompense historical harms. We have to move forward, somehow.To try to understand what might promote that, I turned to the world’s most-read book, the Bible.This phrase in Isaiah 58 piqued my interest: “repairer of the breach.”Here, the repairer isn’t a carpenter or mason but a caring community. That’s the ideal anyway. People feed the hungry, free the oppressed, undo heavy burdens. And behind those good actions, Isaiah indicates, are good attitudes – compassion and humility. Treating people well comes with thinking of them that way.Having achieved this, the entire community experiences abundance, “like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.” It earns the name “repairer of the breach” and can “build the old waste places.”If today’s debate over repara...

Friday marked a new chapter of leadership in Tanzania as the first-ever female president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, took the oath of office. The inauguration was witnessed by members of the cabinet and former presidents at the statehouse in Dar es Salaam. The 61-year-old Hassan was Magufuli's vice president, first elected with him in 2015 and re-elected last year. She will serve out the remaining four years of the late Magufuli's term, which ends in October 2025. Some Tanzanian citizens say Hassan's new leadership could bring about positive changes to the country.. "We are praying [for] the best to her," Joseph Aboubakar, who lives in Dar es Salaam, told VOA. "Our mother has already taken the country's leadership and we believe she will lead the country in a good direction." Aboubakar added that Hassan is not new to leadership, as she has been in a top position for more than five years. Kyande Muro, a small kiosk owner in Dar es Salaam, said raising people's incomes would be the best thing the new president could do, and that he would like the new president to attract more investment in the country so people in the streets can find jobs. Some see Hassan's presidency as challenging the stereotype that women cannot hold top leadership positions. Rose Reuben, a chairperson of the Tanzania Media Women Association, said she believes that Tanzania is going to move forward under Hassan's leadership. Magufuli died Wednesday in a Dar es Salaam hospital, twenty days after his last public...

In this Tuesday, March 16, 2021, file photo, Tanzania's then Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania. Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in Friday, March 19, 2021, as Tanzania's president, making history as the country's first woman in the position following the death of her predecessor John Magufuli.[AP Photo] Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at State House, the government offices in Dar es Salaam, the country’s largest city. Wearing a hijab and holding up a Quran with her right hand, Hassan took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Ibrahim Jumavowing, in which she vowed to uphold the East African country’s constitution. The inauguration was witnessed by Cabinet members and Tanzania’s former presidents Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Jakaya Kikwete and Abeid Karume. The former heads of state were among the few people in the room wearing facemasks to protect against COVID-19. Hassan’s inauguration comes two days after she announced the death of President John Magufuli, after he had not been seen in public for more than two weeks. Magufuli had denied that COVID-19 was a problem in Tanzania, saying that national prayer had eradicated the disease from the country. But weeks before his death, Magufuli acknowledged that the virus was a danger. A major test of Hassan’s new presidency will be how she deals with COVID-19. Under Magufuli, Tanzania, one of Africa’s ...

Friday marked a new chapter of leadership for women in Tanzania. The first-ever female president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, took the oath of office after the death of Tanzanian President John Magufuli. Hassan is now the first female leader of the East African nation since its independence from Britain in late 1961. • • • • 61-year-old Hassan was Magufuli’s vice president, first elected with him in 2015 and re-elected last year. She will serve out the remaining four years of the late Magufuli’s term, which ends in October 2025. Born in Zanzibar, she began her political career in 2000 with election to the Zanzibar House of Representative. She was immediately appointed minister of trade and tourism by then-President Amani Karume, becoming the only woman in a senior ministerial position in the Cabinet. First ever female president of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan In 2010, Hassan won a seat in Tanzania’s national parliament. Her journey in national politics began in 2014, when she was selected by then-President Jakaya Kikwete as the country’s minister for union affairs. Former Tanzania president Magufuli died Wednesday in a Dar es Salaam hospital, twenty days after his last public appearance. The late president was rumored to be suffering from COVID-19, which he long denied was present in Tanzania. However, Hassan said he died of heart failure. While Hassan has taken the seat following the tragedy, the people of Tanzania are hopeful and proud of the new prospects of their first femal...

Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in on Friday as Tanzania's first female president after John Magufuli died from heart failure. The 61-year-old, dressed in black suit and red headscarf, took the oath of office in Dar es Salaam before inspecting troops at a military parade and receiving a cannon salute. The inauguration was witnessed by members of the Cabinet and Tanzania's former presidents Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Jakaya Kikwete and Abeid Karume. The former heads of state were the only ones in the room wearing facemasks to protect against COVID-19. Hassan then went outside to inspect a military guard of honour. "I, Samia Suluhu Hassan, promise to be honest and obey and protect the constitution of Tanzania," she said before a room of dignitaries, who applauded when the brief ceremony was complete. Under the constitution, Hassan will serve the remainder of Magufuli's second five-year term, which does not expire until 2025. Hassan's inauguration comes two days after she announced the death of President John Magufuli, who had not been seen in public for more than two weeks. In her first public address, she announced 21 days of mourning for Magufuli and public holidays on March 22 and on his burial day which will be on March 25. ``"It's not a good day for me to talk to you because I have a wound in my heart,`` said Hassan. ``Today I have taken an oath different from the rest that I have taken in my career. Those were taken in happiness. Today I took the highest oath of office in mourni...

Read more Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Wearing a bright red headscarf, Hassan was sworn in as the country's sixth president, at a ceremony in Dar es Salaam, where neither she nor the majority of attendees wore a mask, in the Covid-sceptic nation. "I, Samia Suluhu Hassan, promise to be honest and obey and protect the constitution of She becomes the only other current female head of state in Africa alongside Ethiopia's President Hassan was little known outside Tanzania until she appeared on state television on Wednesday night to announce that Magufuli had died from a heart condition after a mysterious three week absence from public view. But questions have been raised over the true cause of his death, after multiple rumours that Magufuli – one of the world's most fervent Covid-sceptic leaders – had caught the virus and had sought treatment abroad. Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu insisted his sources said Magufuli had Covid-19 and had actually died a week ago. Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper, which last week reported an "African leader", in clear reference to Magufuli, was in a Nairobi hospital, on Friday gave more details of his illness. The report also indicated that Magufuli had in fact died last week. Citing sources, the paper said Magufuli was discharged from Nairobi Hospital on life support after it was determined he could not be resuscitated, and returned to Dar es Salaam where he died last Thursday. The paper detailed his init...

When Samia Suluhu assumed Tanzania’s presidency on March 19 2021, she made history as the first female president of Tanzania following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli. Six months after her appointment, President Samia has now confirmed her political ambitions to run for office in 2025 - to become the country's first elected female president were she to win. The Tanzanian President announced at an event to mark the International Day of Democracy in Dar es Salaam, saying her appointment was thanks to "the grace of God" and constitutional requirements. While giving her speech, President Samia urged Tanzanian women to support her political ambition by joining forces to ensure she emerges victorious in the next presidential election. "We have favoured men to become presidents for far too long. God has given us this special opportunity... if we don't grab it with both hands, it will become like a curse upon us (women)," she noted while reiterating her pledge to appoint more women to leadership positions as a way of bridging the political gender gap. President Samia became the first female vice-president in the country’s history upon Magufuli's victory in the 2015 presidential elections. Both Magufuli and Suluhu were re-elected for a second five-year term on 28 October 2020. However, John Magufuli died after a long illness in 2021 and Samia was sworn in as his successor on 19 March 2021 to serve the balance of Magufuli's second five-year. Thanks for signing up for our...