Tanzania: Vice President Nchimbi Resigns

BREAKING: Tanzania's Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi resigns, effective September 4, just weeks after urging rights groups to 'fight' for a new constitution.

Tanzania's Vice President just resigned, a month after telling citizens to fight for a new constitution.

Emmanuel Nchimbi, and here he is, says he'll leave office on September 4. His explanation, President Samia Suluhu Hassan wants a change, and he promised her back in August 2025 that he'd step aside whenever she felt the need. His words, I am fully satisfied without a doubt that the President desires a change.

But rewind to July 24. At a human rights meeting in Dar es Salaam, Nchimbi told Tanzanians, and I quote, fight to get a new constitution. Strong stuff in a country where the reform process has been stalled since 2014. Then local media started reporting pressure on him to quit, and one outlet got suspended for its trouble.

So the man who told people to fight is retiring from politics entirely. He says he'll remain a good citizen of Tanzania. In Dar es Salaam right now, that sentence carries a lot of weight.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.