Tanzania President

Tanzania Swears In East Africa's First Woman President, Samia Suluhu Hassan   Tanzania has a new president in the person of Samia Suluhu Hassan, who two days ago was vice president of the East African country. She has made history becoming the first female president of the United Republic of Tanzania. Suluhu was, this morning, sworn in by the Chief Justice Ibrahim Juma at State House in Dar es Salaam. She becomes the sixth president of the country taking over from deceased former boss President John Pombe Magufuli who died on Wednesday, from heart-related complications. The 61-year-old has been Magufuli’s…

BREAKING!!!:Tanzania President John Magufuli Dead   Vice President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu has announced on a State television that, President has John Magufuli has died.     In a televised address to the nation late on Wednesday, he said the 61-year-old president had died of heart failure.   A vocal COVID-19 sceptic, Magufuli had last appeared in public on February 27and top government officials had denied that he was in ill health, even as speculation swirled online that he was sick and possibly incapacitated from illness.   More to follow.