VIDEO: Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is deadIn a televised address on Thursday night, Tanzania vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan said that President John Pombe Magufuli had died of heart complications.
Hassan said that Magufuli was hospitalised on March 6 at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute.
She also announced that the country would get into a 14-day period of mourning as arrangements for the burial are made.
During this period, all flags in Tanzania will fly at half-mast, Hassan announced.
This comes after weeks of speculation on his whereabouts with the suspicion that he had been hospitalised for Covid-19.
Magufuli was born on October 29, 1959 in Chato, Tanzania and has been in office since 2015 as the fifth president.
He has previously served as a deputy minister and minister in previous administrations in Tanzania.
Magufuli was serving his second term that was to run until 2025 after controversially winning the Presidential election in 2020.
Source-https://www.the-star.co.ke/
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VIDEO: Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is dead
