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  "ar": "سامية صلوحي حسن",
  "en": "Samia Suluhu Hassan",
  "ur": "سامیہ صلوحی حسن"
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  "ar": "سياسية تنزانية (ولدت 1960) من زنجبار، وهي سادس رئيس لتنزانيا منذ 19 مارس 2021 وأول امرأة تشغل المنصب. شغلت وزارات في حكومة زنجبار بين 2000 و2010، وكانت عضوة في البرلمان ووزيرة دولة لشؤون الاتحاد، ثم نائبة الرئيس جون ماغوفولي من 2015 حتى وفاته فخلفته في الرئاسة وأعيد انتخابها سنة 2025 في انتخابات متنازع عليها. تنسبها تصنيفات المقالات إلى المسلمين التنزانيين دون أن يسمي نصٌّ مدرستها.",
  "en": "Tanzanian politician (born 1960) from Zanzibar who has been the sixth president of Tanzania since 19 March 2021 and the first woman to hold the office. She held ministries in the Zanzibar government between 2000 and 2010, served as a member of parliament and minister of state for union affairs, then as vice-president under John Magufuli from 2015 until his death, when she succeeded him; she was re-elected in 2025 in a contested election. The articles' categories file her among Tanzanian Muslims, but no text names a school for her.",
  "ur": "تنزانیہ کی سیاست دان (پیدائش 1960ء) جن کا تعلق زنجبار سے ہے؛ وہ 19 مارچ 2021ء سے تنزانیہ کی چھٹی صدر اور اس عہدے پر فائز ہونے والی پہلی خاتون ہیں۔ وہ 2000ء سے 2010ء تک زنجبار حکومت میں وزیر رہیں، رکنِ پارلیمان اور وزیرِ مملکت برائے یونین امور رہیں، پھر 2015ء سے جان ماگوفولی کی نائب صدر رہیں اور ان کی وفات پر صدر بنیں؛ 2025ء میں متنازع انتخابات میں دوبارہ منتخب ہوئیں۔ مضامین کے زمرے انہیں تنزانیہ کے مسلمانوں میں شمار کرتے ہیں، مگر کوئی متن ان کا مذہبی مکتب فکر بیان نہیں کرتا۔"
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  "earliest": 1960.0696112856526,
  "latest": 1960.072349192628
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1960-01-27",
   "hijri": "1379",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give her birth on 27 January 1960 at Makunduchi, in what was then the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The Arabic article's categories also file her under births of 1961 — a category filing only, against the day-precision date in the texts and Wikidata, and not followed. Makunduchi has no place entity in the museum; the born_in relation is written to Zanzibar, the island polity named in the sources. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
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    "value": "Samia Suluhu Hassan",
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    "value": "سامية صلوحي حسن",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "سامية حسن",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "سامیہ حسن",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "roles": [
   "politician"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1960-01-27",
   "hijri": "1379",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give her birth on 27 January 1960 at Makunduchi, in what was then the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The Arabic article's categories also file her under births of 1961 — a category filing only, against the day-precision date in the texts and Wikidata, and not followed. Makunduchi has no place entity in the museum; the born_in relation is written to Zanzibar, the island polity named in the sources. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source names a school for her, and no article text states her religion. Wikidata gives her religion (P140) as Islam, with no branch — a single structured value. The English article's text makes no religion statement; its categories file her under Tanzanian Muslims, Muslim socialists and 21st-century Muslims, and the Arabic and Urdu articles carry equivalent filings. Category filings never attest, so the value stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia revision 1379711509 of 11 October 2026, Arabic revision 76474012 of 8 September 2026 and Urdu revision 10976044 of 16 June 2026, each fetched on 27 October 2026 by its recorded revision id and asserted equal to it; Wikidata item Q16193885 revision 2558232899 of 18 October 2026, read from the Wikidata API. She was verified absent from the museum in both directions: no person file matches her name in any script and no museum record carries Q16193885. Relations written: born at Makunduchi in Zanzibar (place record exists; Makunduchi itself has none). No succession edge is written: she succeeded John Magufuli as president on his death, and Magufuli has no museum record.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلدت سامية في 27 يناير 1960 في مكوندوتشي بزنجبار، ودرست في جامعة مزومبي والجامعة المفتوحة في تنزانيا وجامعة مانشستر، وعملت في منظمات تنموية قبل دخولها السياسة.{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}{cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة في زنجبار والبرلمان",
     "markdown": "شغلت سامية وزارات في حكومة زنجبار شبه المستقلة من 2000 إلى 2010، ومنها وزارة السياحة والتجارة والاستثمار بين 2005 و2010، ثم انتُخبت عضوة في البرلمان عن دائرة مكوندوتشي من 2010 إلى 2015 وكانت وزيرة دولة في مكتب نائب الرئيس لشؤون الاتحاد، وانتُخبت سنة 2014 نائبة لرئيس الجمعية التأسيسية المكلفة بصياغة دستور جديد للبلاد.{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نائبة الرئيس ثم الرئيسة",
     "markdown": "صارت سامية أول نائبة رئيس في تاريخ تنزانيا بعد انتخابات 2015، على بطاقة حزب تشاما تشا مابيندوزي مع جون ماغوفولي، وأعيد انتخابهما سنة 2020.{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en} فلما مات ماغوفولي تولت الرئاسة في 19 مارس 2021 بحكم الدستور. وفي رئاستها اتخذت سياسات للحد من انتشار جائحة كورونا مخالفة لإنكار سلفها خطورتها، وركزت على توسيع البنية التحتية وتدويل الاقتصاد التنزاني عبر المستثمرين والسياحة.{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en} وقبيل انتخابات أكتوبر 2025 مُنع حزب المعارضة الرئيسي تشاديما من المشاركة واتُهم زعيمه توندو ليسو بالخيانة واعتُقل، ويرى باحثون ومراقبون مستقلون ووسائل إعلام — بحسب المقالة الإنجليزية — أن حكمها صار سلطويا على نحو متزايد بعد أن بدأت بصورة إصلاحية.{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة عن السجل",
     "markdown": "سامية امرأة من زنجبار، وسجلها هنا يثبت ذلك كما تثبته المصادر.{cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan} أما الدين، فلا يسمي أي نص من النصوص المستشارة دينا لها ولا مدرسة: فويكيداتا تعطي دينها «الإسلام» دون فرع، وهي قيمة منظمة واحدة؛ ونص المقالة الإنجليزية لا يذكر الدين، وتصنيفات المقالات الثلاث تضعها في «مسلمون تنزانيون» و«اشتراكيون مسلمون» و«مسلمو القرن 21»، والتصنيفات لا تثبت انتماء.{cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan}{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar}{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ur} فسُجّل دينها «غير معروف». وتصنفها المقالة العربية أيضا في مواليد 1961 خلافا لتاريخ 27 يناير 1960 في النصوص وويكيداتا، ولم يُتّبع ذلك التصنيف.{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar}\n\nولا يوجد في المتحف سجل لسلفها جون ماغوفولي، فلم تُكتب علاقة خلافة؛ وكُتبت ولادتها في زنجبار.{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and education",
     "markdown": "Samia was born on 27 January 1960 at Makunduchi, Zanzibar. She studied at Mzumbe University, the Open University of Tanzania and the University of Manchester, and worked in development organisations before entering politics. {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en} {cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career in Zanzibar and parliament",
     "markdown": "She served as a minister in the semi-autonomous Zanzibar government from 2000 to 2010, including as Minister of Tourism, Trade and Investment from 2005 to 2010. She then served as the member of parliament for the Makunduchi constituency from 2010 to 2015 and as Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office for Union Affairs, and in 2014 she was elected vice-chairperson of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting the country's new constitution. {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Vice-president, then president",
     "markdown": "Samia became Tanzania's first female vice-president following the 2015 general election, elected on the Chama Cha Mapinduzi ticket with John Magufuli, and the two were re-elected in 2020. {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en} On Magufuli's death she ascended to the presidency on 19 March 2021. As president she implemented policies to limit the spread of COVID-19, which her predecessor had denied was a serious issue, and focused on expanding infrastructure and globalising the Tanzanian economy through investors and tourism. {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en} Ahead of the October 2025 election the main opposition party, Chadema, was banned from taking part and its leader Tundu Lissu was charged with treason and arrested; scholars, independent observers and media increasingly view her rule as authoritarian, according to the English article, after an early image as a reformer. {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Note on the record",
     "markdown": "Samia Suluhu Hassan is a woman, a native of Zanzibar, as the sources state. {cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan} On religion, no consulted text states hers and none names a school: Wikidata gives her religion as Islam with no branch, a single structured value; the English article's text makes no religion statement, and the three articles' categories file her under Tanzanian Muslims, Muslim socialists and 21st-century Muslims — filings, which never attest. {cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan} {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en} {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar} {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ur} Her faith is therefore recorded as unknown. The Arabic article's categories also file her under births of 1961, against the 27 January 1960 date in the texts and Wikidata; that filing is not followed. {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar}\n\nHer predecessor John Magufuli has no record in the museum, so no succession relation is written; the relation written is her birth in Zanzibar. {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور کیریئر",
     "markdown": "سامیہ 27 جنوری 1960ء کو مکوندوچی، زنجبار میں پیدا ہوئیں، مزومبے یونیورسٹی، تنزانیہ کی اوپن یونیورسٹی اور مانچسٹر یونیورسٹی سے تعلیم حاصل کی، 2000ء سے 2010ء تک زنجبار حکومت میں وزیر رہیں، پھر رکنِ پارلیمان اور وزیرِ مملکت برائے یونین امور رہیں، اور 2015ء میں تنزانیہ کی پہلی خاتون نائب صدر بنیں۔{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}{cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan} جان ماگوفولی کی وفات پر 19 مارچ 2021ء کو وہ صدر بنیں؛ ان کے دور میں کووڈ-19 کے تدارک کی پالیسیاں اپنائی گئیں، جن سے ان کے پیش رو انکار کرتے تھے، اور 2025ء کے متنازع انتخابات میں وہ دوبارہ منتخب ہوئیں۔{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ریکارڈ پر ایک نوٹ",
     "markdown": "کوئی متن ان کا مذہب بیان نہیں کرتا اور نہ کوئی مکتب فکر: ویکی ڈیٹا ان کا مذہب صرف «اسلام» درج کرتی ہے، بلا شاخ، اور تینوں مضامین کے زمرے انہیں «تنزانیہ کے مسلمان»، «مسلم اشتراکی» اور «اکیسویں صدی کے مسلمان» میں شمار کرتے ہیں، اور زمرہ بندی شہادت نہیں ہوتی۔{cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan}{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar}{cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ur} اس لیے ان کا مذہب «نامعلوم» درج کیا گیا ہے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ar}\n- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-samia-suluhu-hassan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-samia-suluhu-hassan}"
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