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5 unusual facts about Dodoma


Dodoma

United States architect James Rossant developed a master plan for the new capital in 1986, sponsored by the United Nations.

Rose Mhando

She started her music career as a choir teacher in Dodoma's Saint Mary’s Choir for the Chimuli Anglican Church.

Tanzanite

Correct identification was also made by mineralogists at Harvard University, the British Museum, and Heidelberg University, but the very first person to get the identification right was Ian McCloud, a Tanzanian government geologist based in Dodoma.

Thomas Ulimwengu

Ulimwengu grew up in Dodoma, the Tanzanian capital, where he played for local club team Area C. At the age of 14 he was selected for the Dodoma Region U-17 team.

Trans-African Highway network

Trans-African Highway (TAH 4), Cairo–Gaborone–(Pretoria/Cape Town) Highway, 10,228 km: the completion of the stretch of highway from Dongola to Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan and the road from the Galabat border crossing in North-Western Ethiopia leaves only 2 stretches unpaved: between Isiolo and Moyale in northern Kenya (dubbed 'the road to hell' by overland travellers) and the gravel section through Dodoma in central Tanzania.


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Igandu train disaster

The shortage of doctors at Dodoma hospital was so severe that the Tanzanian health minister, Mrs Anna Abdallah was obliged to help with the more than 400 people badly injured.

Ving

Ving'hawe, administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania


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