TANZANIA GET THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT

Tanzania swears in new president after sudden death of Magufuli

Vice 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.

“I, Samia Suluhu Hassan, promise to be honest and obey and protect the constitution of Tanzania,” said Hassan, dressed in a black suit and red headscarf before dignitaries at a ceremony in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.