Dar es Salaam - Tanzania’s former president, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, is dead. Tanzanian former president Ali Hassan Mwinyi at a ceremony in Zanzibar. Source: Getty ImagesIn a TV broadcast on Thursday, February 29, President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced the veteran politician's death at the age of 98. The late Mzee Ali Hassan Mwinyi will be laid to rest on the 2nd in Unguja, Zanzibar. Mwinyi was the second President of Tanzania after founding president Julius Nyerere.
