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Tanzania's new Cabinet begins work tomorrow amid disappointment that greeted the new President's decision to drop 14 of 26 ministers who served in the last government. As the Cabinet was being sworn-in critics inside and outside the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi pointed out that Kikwete had taken the first bold step towards scuttling a ring of powerful individuals that gravitated around his predecessor, Benjamin Mkapa.