President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic in Africa whose populist rule often cast his East African country in a harsh international spotlight, has died. Magufuli’s death was announced on Wednesday by Vice President Samia Suluhu, who said the president died of heart failure. CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE"Our beloved president passed on at 6 p.m. this evening," said Suluhu on national television. The vice president said that Magufuli died at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, the Indian Ocean port that is Tanzania’s largest city. Soon after the death was announced of the vice president of the semi-autonomous island region of Zanzibar, whose political party had earlier reported that he had COVID-19.

Source: Fox News March 17, 2021 23:03 UTC