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Kwaheri Magufuli, the popular bulldozer of Tanzania politics

Tanzania's fifth president John Magufuli died of heart disease. [File, Standard]

John Pombe Magufuli, Tanzania’s fifth president, was pronounced dead last night, bringing to an end weeks of uncertainty in the East African nation and its neighborhood.

Magufuli died in Mzena Hospital in Dar es Salaam, where he was receiving treatment for a heart condition, a shaken Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan told the nation in a television address.

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