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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - Tanzania's prime minister and two Cabinet ministers have resigned over a corruption scandal involving a contract with a nonexistent firm supposedly based in the United States, and the president dissolved the entire Cabinet as a result.
The decision, announced late Thursday, comes a week before a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush, which has been considered a sign of approval for the government. More than half of Tanzania's budget comes from foreign aid.
"I have written to the president to relieve me of my duties after serving the government for two years," Prime Minister Edward Lowassa told parliament Thursday in Dodoma, 250 miles north of Dar es Salaam.
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