TANZANIAN CHIEF JUSTICE SWEARS IN SAMIA SULUHU HASSAN AS COUNTRY’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT.
Written by wave FM on March 19, 2021
Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery.
Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025.
Wearing a bright red headscarf, Hassan was sworn in as the country’s sixth president, at a ceremony in Dar es Salaam, where neither she nor the majority of attendees wore a mask, in the Covid-sceptic nation.
Editor: George Ukaegbu
