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| President Jakaya Kikwete chats with Tanzania's ambassador to the US Liberata Mulamula who paid him a visit at the Johns Hopkins Hospital after surgery Sunday. [PHOTO: STATE HOUSE, DAR ES SALAAM] |
DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete underwent a successful prostate surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, US over the weekend, the president's office said.
Kikwete, 64, has led Tanzania, east Africa's second-biggest economy since 2005 but must step down next year at the end of his second and final term in office.