Abdallah Possi
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| name = Abdallah Saleh Possi
| honorific-suffix = Ambassador
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| office = Tanzania´s Permanent Representative to The United Nations Office, Geneva
| term_start = June 2023
| predecessor = Maimuna Tarishi
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|8|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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| alma_mater = University of Dar es Salaam {{small|(LL.B., LL.M.)}}
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg {{small|(Dr.phil.)}}
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Abdallah Saleh Possi (born 25 August 1979) is a Tanzanian diplomat who serves as Tanzania's Permanent Representative to The United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva. Before, he served as Tansania´s Ambassador to Germany, and was also accredited to Austria (until May 2022), Bulgaria, Czech Republic, the Holy See, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Switzerland.{{Cite web | title=Tanzania Embassy in Berlin, Germany | url=https://de.tzembassy.go.tz | access-date=2025-04-04 | website=de.tzembassy.go.tz}}
Before assuming his first Diplomatic obligations, Possi had served as a Member of Parliament and the Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office responsible for Persons with Disability.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dw.com/en/tanzania-appoints-first-albino-deputy-minister/a-18916274|title=Tanzania appoints first albino deputy minister|last=Makoye|first=Kizito|date=2015-12-15|work=Deutsche Welle|access-date=2019-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151216225853/http://www.dw.com/en/tanzania-appoints-first-albino-deputy-minister/a-18916274|archive-date=2015-12-16|url-status=live}} Previously, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Dodoma in Tanzania; and practiced as an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania. He had also worked as a tutor at the Institute of Judicial Administration in Lushoto, Tanga, Tanzania. He holds LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and a Dr. phil. from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany. Possi is married and has three children.
Works
- POSSI, A. (2018) 'Integrating Persons with Disabilities in the East African Labour Market A Comparative Analysis of Employment and Disability Laws in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda', in J. DÖVELING et al. (eds), Harmonisation of Laws in the East African Community: the State of Affairs with Comparative Insights from the European Union and other Regional Economic Communities, 5 TGCL Series, 213–242.
- POSSI, A. & POSSI, A. 'The identity Question versus Appropriateness of legal Anti-discrimination Measures: Endorsing the Disability Rights Approach to Albinism', African Disability Rights Yearbook, 5 (2017), 118 -140. [http://www.adry.up.ac.za/index.php/section-a-articles-2017/abdallah-possi-ally-possi Abdallah Possi & Ally Possi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621142208/http://www.adry.up.ac.za/index.php/section-a-articles-2017/abdallah-possi-ally-possi |date=2020-06-21 }}
- POSSI, A. 'Implementing Article 33 of the CRPD: Tanzanian approach', African Disability Rights Yearbook, 4 (2016), 191–210. [http://www.adry.up.ac.za/index.php/section-a-articles-4-2016/abdallah-possi Abdallah Possi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622140158/http://www.adry.up.ac.za/index.php/section-a-articles-4-2016/abdallah-possi |date=2020-06-22 }}
- POSSI, A. 'Relating Equality and Disability Approaches in Tanzania: The Law in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar', Zanzibar Yearbook of Law, 5 (2015), 3 – 29. [http://www.zlsc.or.tz/documents/VOLUME%205.pdf ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008121426/http://www.zlsc.or.tz/documents/VOLUME%205.pdf |date=2018-10-08 }}
- POSSI, A. 'Criminal Justice in Disrepute: An Overview of Treatment of Accused Persons and Convicts in Tanzania', The Open University Law Journal, 1/1 (2007), 83–97.
References
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External links
- {{Cite web | title=Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation - Tanzania | url=http://www.foreign.go.tz/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830000444/http://www.foreign.go.tz:80/ | access-date=2025-04-04 | archive-date=2010-08-30}}
- {{Cite web | title=Tansania {{!}} Botschafter in Berlin | url=http://www.botschafter-berlin.de/tansania/ | access-date=2025-04-04 | website=www.botschafter-berlin.de}}
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