Newly inaugurated Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared 21 days of mourning for her predecessor Residents of Tanzania’s main city of Dar es Salaam have been banned from holding any events or festivities whilst the nation mourns the late President John Magufuli, the privately owned Citizen newspaper quotes the city's governor as
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Samia Suluhu Hassan has made history as the first female president of Tanzania. Ms Samia has been sworn in by the Chief Justice Ibrahim Juma at State House Dar es Salaam. She becomes the sixth president of Tanzania following the death of President John Pombe Magufuli on Wednesday, from heart-related
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The 61-year-old president died from heart complications on Wednesday Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country's vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television. Magufuli had not been
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The port of Mombasa is the busiest in the region Kenya's Finance Minister Ukur Yatani has denied reports that the country risks losing its main port to China should it fail to pay huge loans advanced for the construction of a new railway line. The new 472km (293 mile) railway cost
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Cardinal Luis Ladaria (left) of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith signed the response/Getty Images The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, the Vatican office responsible for doctrine has said. It is "impossible" for God to "bless sin", the Congregation for the Doctrine
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AstraZeneca Plc’s vaccine for Covid-19, once expected to be a mainstay of protection for much of the world, remains shrouded in controversy as more countries limit its use even as scientists warn of the need for governments to tread carefully. The Netherlands joined a growing list of about a dozen places,
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Denmark joined other European countries in suspending use of a batch of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid vaccine due to safety concerns, in a further setback for the shot just as immunizations were ramping up. Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said in a tweet that it’s a precautionary move, following “signals of a possible
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The 61-year-old president, nicknamed "The Bulldozer", is serving his second term in office Questions have been raised over the health of Tanzanian President John Magufuli who has not been seen in public for 11 days. Opposition leader Tundu Lissu has told the BBC that according to his sources the president
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken/Bloomberg Two United States Senators have written to the Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeking detailed information about US Policy on Uganda.Senators Cory Booker and Jim Risch who are both members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations expressed concern about the state of
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The Tanzania drugs authority is investigating a company that has reportedly been collecting urine from pregnant women to make human medicine, local newspaper The Citizen reports. The Tanzania Medicines and Drugs Authority (TMDA) is quoted as saying it does not recognise and has never registered Polai (Tz) Co Ltd - the
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