Tanzania president John Pombe Magufuli is dead.
This message was revealed by Tanzania Vice president,Samia Suluhu Hassan that magufuli died of heart complications.
Samia said that magufuli was hospitalized on March 6 at the Jakaya Kikwete cardiac institute and died in Mzena State Hospital in Dar es Salaam.
She announced that the country would have a 14-day period of mourning’s as arrangements for burial are made.
During this period all flags will fly at half-mast.
This comes after weeks of speculation on his whereabouts with the suspicion that he had been hospitalized for Covid-19.
After hours of frenzied social media speculation on whether Magufuli had been admitted to the Nairobi Hospital with Covid-19, the government put a statement in March 10 put out a statement saying he was in in Kenya.