Chinese ambassador to Tanzania Liu Xisheng runs with the torch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 13, 2008. Dar es Salaam is the eighth stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay outside the Chinese mainland. (Xinhua Photo)

Torchbearer John S. Akhwari (C) runs with the torch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, April 13, 2008. Dar es Salaam is the eighth stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay outside the Chinese mainland. (Xinhua Photo)

The Beijing Olympic torch relay in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, concluded on Sunday afternoon.

The last torchbearer, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN-HABITAT Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka, ran with the torch in the Tanzanian National Stadium at about 4:00 p.m. (1300 GMT).

She finally lit the ceremonial cauldron in the stadium. Applause thundered to embrace the end of the torch relay in Dar es Salaam. A grand celebration ensued.

Tibaijuka was the first African woman elected by the UN General Assembly as Under-Secretary-General of a United Nations program. Her home town was Dar es Salaam which is dubbed as "harbor of peace".