27 November – Several politicians, including the prime minister
Mizengo Pinda,
Housing Minister Anna Tibaijuka and Attorney General Frederick Werema, were exposed to be involved in the
Tegeta Escrow Scandal.[2] Tibaijuka and Werema later left their positions due to the scandal.[3]
Deaths
28 March –
Godfrey Mdimi Mhogolo, bishop of Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika (born 1951)