Bernard Kamillius Membe (born November 9, 1953) is a Tanzania

Tanzania

The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

n politician, currently serving as the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation. Membe was appointed to the job by President Jakaya Kikwete

Jakaya Kikwete

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete is the 4th and current President of the United Republic of Tanzania. Kikwete was born in Msoga, Bagamoyo District, Tanganyika in present day Tanzania...

 (himself a former foreign minister) in January 2007 after the previous Foreign Minister, Asha-Rose Migiro

Asha-Rose Migiro

Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro is a Tanzanian lawyer and politician. On January 5, 2007, she was named as the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. She was formally appointed and assumed office on February 1. She is married to Cleophas Migiro, and the couple has two daughters...

, left for the job of United Nations

United Nations

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 Deputy Secretary-General

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General

The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations is an office created to handle many of the administrative responsibilities, help manage Secretariat operations, and ensure coherence of activities and programmes. The post was formally established by the General Assembly at the end of 1997...

. He is a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Tanzania

National Assembly of Tanzania

The National Assembly of Tanzania and the President of the United Republic make up the Parliament of Tanzania. The current Speaker of the National Assembly is Hon. Anna Makinda, who presides over an assembly of 357 members.- History :...

 from Mtama

Mtama

Mtama is a ward in Lindi Rural, Lindi Region, Tanzania. The population was approxmimately 11, 500 as of the 2002 census....

, a rural ward in the Lindi Rural

Lindi Rural

Lindi Rural is one of the six districts of the Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the North by the Kilwa District, to the South by the Mtwara Region, to the West by the Nachingwea District, and to the East by the Indian Ocean and the Lindi Urban District.According to the 2002 Tanzania...

 district of Lindi Region

Lindi Region

Lindi is one of Tanzania's 26 administrative regions. The regional capital is also called Lindi.The Lindi region borders on Pwani, Morogoro, Ruvuma, and Mtwara. Much of the western part of the region is in the Selous Game Reserve....

.

Membe was a national security analyst at the President's Office from 1977 to 1990, and he worked at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2000. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2000 parliamentary election

Tanzanian general election, 2000

General elections were held in Tanzania on 29 October 2000, with sixteen constituencies in Zanzibar voting again on 5 November due to problems with distributing election material...

 and was re-elected in the 2005 parliamentary election as a candidate of Chama Cha Mapinduzi

Chama Cha Mapinduzi

The Chama cha Mapinduzi is the ruling political party of Tanzania.- History :The party was created February 5, 1977, under the leadership of Julius Nyerere as the merger of the Tanganyika African National Union , the then ruling party in Tanganyika, and the Afro-Shirazi Party , the then ruling...

(CCM). He was Deputy Minister of Home Affairs prior to being appointed as Deputy Minister of Energy and Minerals on October 15, 2006.

External links

• Towards a Stronger Commonwealth, a paper by Membe