Through a televised address on Wednesday night, Tanzania vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed the death of Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli and his real cause of death.
According to Hassan, Magufuli died of heart complications after spending weeks in Hospital.
She also stated that Magufuli was hospitalised on March 6 at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute and died at Mzena State Hospital in Dar es Salaam.
Ms. Hassan did not specify the nature of Mr. Magufuli’s underlying illness in her brief remarks, but said that he had suffered from chronic atrial fibrillation for more than a decade. She said that flags will fly at half-staff nationwide and that funeral arrangements were underway.
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