Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is dead. He was aged 62 years.
Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu has just announced in a televised statement
The Vice President said Magufuli died of heart attack which has been treating for the last ten years.
Itās been more than two weeks since Tanzanians last saw Magufuli in public. Last year, Tanzania lost its former President Benjamin Mkapa died of similar incidence. However, the public said he had died from #Covid-19.
Magafuli becomes the second president to die from ‘heart complications’ from East Africa after former Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza.