Tanzania Diplomat Hon Amb Liberata Mulamula (MP) has on Wednesday March 31 been named as a Member of Parliament and the foreign minister replacing Prof Palamagamba Kabudi who now takes over as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. Ambassador Mulamula is set to be sworn-in on Thursday April 1, at State House Dodoma.
She becomes the 16th Foreign Affairs Minister and only the second woman to serve in that position after Dr Asha-Rose Migiro who was at the helm between January 2006 and January 11, 2007.Ambassador Mulamula is a skilled career diplomat with 35 years of experience is now tasked to head Tanzania’s diplomacy given her vast experience of working in foreign missionsOver the years she has served in various capacities at the Tanzania Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Diplomatic missions in New York (Permanent Mission to the UN), Canada and the USA.
Ambassador Mulamula is a graduate of St. John’s University in New York where she obtained an M.A. in Government and Politics, as well as a postgraduate diploma in International Law. She received her B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from University of Dar-es Salaam.