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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (
/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/ (
listen);
[1] born August 4, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the
Democratic Party, he was the first
African American to be elected to the presidency. He previously served as a
U.S. senator from
Illinois from 2005 to 2008.
Obama was born in
Honolulu,
Hawaii. After graduating from
Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in
Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in
Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the
Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the
University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He
represented the 13th district for three terms in the
Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he
ran for the U.S. Senate. He received national attention in 2004 with his March primary win, his well-received July
Democratic National Convention keynote address, and his landslide November election to the Senate. In 2008, he was nominated for president a year after
his campaign began and after
a close primary campaign against
Hillary Clinton. He was
elected over
Republican John McCain and was
inaugurated on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the
2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
During his first two years in office, Obama signed many landmark bills into law. The main reforms were the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (often referred to as "Obamacare", shortened as the "Affordable Care Act"), the
Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. The
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and
Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 served as economic stimulus amidst the
Great Recession. After a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, he signed the
Budget Control and the
American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, he increased U.S. troop levels in
Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the United States–Russia
New START treaty, and
ended military involvement in the
Iraq War. He ordered
military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi; Gaddafi was
killed by NATO-assisted forces. He also ordered the military operations that resulted in
the deaths of Osama bin Laden and suspected Yemeni
Al-Qaedaoperative
Anwar al-Awlaki.
After winning
re-election by defeating Republican opponent
Mitt Romney, Obama was
sworn in for a second term in 2013. During this term, he promoted inclusiveness for
LGBT Americans. His administration filed briefs that urged the
Supreme Court to strike down
same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional (
United States v. Windsor and
Obergefell v. Hodges); same-sex marriage was fully
legalized in 2015 after the Court ruled that a same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional in
Obergefell. He advocated for
gun control in response to the
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, indicating support for a ban on assault weapons, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning
climate change and immigration. In foreign policy, he ordered
military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by
ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, continued the process of
ending U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan in 2016, promoted discussions that led to the 2015
Paris Agreement on global climate change, initiated
sanctions against Russia following the
invasion in Ukraine and again after
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, brokered a
nuclear deal with Iran, and
normalized U.S. relations with Cuba. During his term in office, America's reputation in global polling significantly improved.
[2]
Evaluations of his presidency among historians and the general public place him among
the upper tier of American presidents. Obama left office and retired in January 2017 and currently resides in
Washington, D.C.[3][4] A December 2018
Gallup poll found Obama to be the most admired man in America for an unprecedented 11th consecutive year, although
Dwight D. Eisenhower was selected most admired in twelve non-consecutive years.
[5
Uki compare na ku contrast hii ya hapa juu ina maelezo ya kutosha, kuanzia shule na career, hii ya hapa chini ni kajanja mno.
Paul Makonda
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Hon Paul Makonda is the regional commissioner of Dar es Salaam. He is currently the most popular politician in tanzania.
He gained popularity during a constitutional amendment referendum, where he was among a few members of a special parliamentary session, commissioned with preparing a draft for a new constitution. He would later gain popularity in Tanzanian politics, first acting as the District commissioner for Kinondoni before being appointed regional commissioner by the current president, Dr John Magufuli.
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Makonda has been a very controversial politician in the city's politics often criticizing the opposition and in recent days staging a war against homosexuality and prostitution acts in Dar es salaam.
Nevertheless, he has been a front runner in championing development as well as undertaking various initiatives to improve the city's image and combating
References[edit]
- ^ AfricaNews (23 February 2017). "Tanzania: Top names listed in drug trafficking racket".
- ^ "Tanzania to publish 'list of gay people' - The Herald".
- ^ Kenya, Coastweek. "Coastweek - The most from the coast".
- ^ "Polisi Tanzania wazuiwa kumkamata Mbowe". 21 February 2017 – via www.bbc.com.
- ^ "Mahakama Kuu Tanzania yatoa amri ya muda Mbowe asikamatwe".
- ^ Tremblay, Sophie (8 August 2016). "'Seeds of hate' sown as Tanzania starts LGBT crackdown" – via The Guardian.
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