Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanians started the year 2021 with a somber note following the death of President John Magufuli on March 17. President Magufuli, 61, who died from a heart condition, was reelected in October 2020 to lead the east African nation for the second and final …
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The body of the late Magufuli will lie in state in Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Zanzibar, Mwanza and Chato from Saturday until March 25 to enable people to pay their last respects Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Saturday led her fellow citizens in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have said that the late Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has left behind a mixed legacy. Magufuli’s death was announced by Vice President Hassan Samia Suhulu in a televised address on Wednesday. Magufuli, 61, who passed away at a hospital in Dar …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament observed a moment of silence in honor of the late President of the United Republic of Tanzania, John Pombe Joseph Magufuli. Magufuli breathed his last at Mzena Hospital on Wednesday night following heart complications according to a televised address by Tanzania’s Vice President, Hassan …
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Tanzania’s president dies aged 61 after Covid rumours Dar es Salaam | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on March 17 from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President John Magufuli is in good health, the country’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa announced on Friday. “I have spoken to him today. He has sent his regards to all Tanzanians,” Majaliwa said in a statement issued by his office. The statement said the …
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Dar es salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian authorities mull over declaring Kiswahili as the official language of the laws and the language used in the administration and dispensation of justice instead of English. A bill that proposes to amend the Interpretation of Laws Act to declare Kiswahili the language of …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President John Magufuli has cancelled celebrations to mark the country’s Independence Day on December 9 and directed that funds earmarked for the event be used to buy medical facilities, a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday. The statement said President …
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Dar es salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | More than 29 million Tanzanians went to some 80,000 polling stations across the country to cast ballots for the elections of president, members of parliament and councilors on Wednesday. The elections have attracted 15 presidential candidates from 15 political parties, but the race is …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | XINHUA | Thousands of Tanzanians gathered on Tuesday to say a final goodbye to the country’s third president Benjamin Mkapa at a state funeral in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam. In a national address for the funeral, Tanzanian President John Magufuli said Mkapa’s death …
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