Tanzanian parliament overwhelmingly endorses PM appointment

The Tanzanian parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed President Benjamin Mkapa's re-appointment of Frederick Sumaye as prime minister.

President Mkapa -- who is expected to appoint the rest of his cabinet in the next two days -- was re-elected for a second term earlier this month. On Wednesday, Zanzibar's President , Amani Abeid Karume , appointed journalist Shamsi Vuai Nahodha as his chief minister. The main opposition party, the Civic United Front, has said it doesn't recognise the results after what it says were gross irregularities in the elections on Tanzania's semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service