DAR ES SALAAM: PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has received credentials from nine newly appointed ambassadors representing the United States, France, the European Union and six other countries, formally marking their diplomatic assignments to Tanzania.
The credentials were presented at the State House in Dar es Salaam on October 15 and 16, 2026, by envoys from Austria, the Republic of Congo, Greece, Venezuela, the United States, Egypt, the European Union, Finland and France.
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On October 16, the President received credentials from Austria’s Simone Knapp, Congo’s Leon Francois Yandouma, Greece’s George Pschias and Venezuela’s Moravia Peralta Hernández.
The four ambassadors are based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The previous day, she received credentials from the United States ambassador-designate, William Trachman; Egypt’s Rania Mahmoud Ibrahim Abdelmegied; European Union ambassador-designate Jean-Marc Pisani; Finland’s Anna Merrifield; and France’s Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Vilmer.
The presentation of credentials is a formal diplomatic procedure through which newly appointed ambassadors are accredited to represent their countries or organisations in Tanzania.