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John Magufuli, coronavirus-denying president of Tanzania, dies at 61
By Matt Schudel
March 17, 2021 at 5:21 p.m. EDT
John Magufuli, who presided over an increasingly authoritarian regime as president of Tanzania and, during the final year of his reign, rejected scientific evidence of the coronavirus pandemic, urging his citizens to raise their voices in prayer rather than cover their faces with masks, died March 17 at a hospital in Dar es Salaam. He was 61.
The death was announced in a statement by Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who cited heart complications as the cause. There had been earlier unconfirmed reports from opposition leaders, which Mr. Magufulis government denied, that he had been hospitalized in Nairobi for covid-19. He was last seen in public on Feb. 27.
Mr. Magufuli, who was trained as a chemist and once was a teacher, served as Tanzanias minister of public works from 2005 to 2015, earning the nickname the Bulldozer as much for his blunt, domineering manner as for his building projects.
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John Magufuli, coronavirus-denying president of Tanzania, dies at 61
By Matt Schudel
March 17, 2021 at 5:21 p.m. EDT
John Magufuli, who presided over an increasingly authoritarian regime as president of Tanzania and, during the final year of his reign, rejected scientific evidence of the coronavirus pandemic, urging his citizens to raise their voices in prayer rather than cover their faces with masks, died March 17 at a hospital in Dar es Salaam. He was 61.
The death was announced in a statement by Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who cited heart complications as the cause. There had been earlier unconfirmed reports from opposition leaders, which Mr. Magufulis government denied, that he had been hospitalized in Nairobi for covid-19. He was last seen in public on Feb. 27.
Mr. Magufuli, who was trained as a chemist and once was a teacher, served as Tanzanias minister of public works from 2005 to 2015, earning the nickname the Bulldozer as much for his blunt, domineering manner as for his building projects.
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Obituaries John Magufuli, coronavirus-denying president of Tanzania, dies at 61 (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2021
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Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)1. Karma if he.died of covid
tanyev
(42,567 posts)2. "trained as a chemist"
Hugin
(33,163 posts)3. I was trained as an astronaut...
Yeah, me and Sarah Palin.
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