Tanzania swears in new president after sudden death of Magufuli
Al JazeeraVice President Samia Suluhu Hassan sworn in as president on Friday, after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness. Tanzania’s soft-spoken Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Friday was sworn in as the East African country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. by Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president “It’s not a good day for me to talk to you because I have a wound in my heart,” said Hassan. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi, reporting from Kenyan capital Nairobi, said: “She has just given her maiden speech and it was a very emotional tribute to her predecessor John Magufuli.” “I’ve been speaking to people in Tanzania to get a sense of what she is about and what they’re telling me is that her leadership style is very different from the late president. “It is not the time to point fingers at each other but to hold hands and move forward to build the new Tanzania that President Magufuli aspired to,” she said, amid opposition claims about the cause of Magufuli’s death.
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