Category: International

* He outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him By Danny Dymond, Royal Correspondent with the BBC And so we have been left with a two-dimensional portrait of the duke; salt-tongued and short-tempered, a man who told off-colour jokes and made politically incorrect remarks. An eccentric great-uncle who’d been around forever and towards whom most people felt affection — but who rather too often embarrassed himself and others in company. With his death will come reassessment….

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The Royal Wedding in 1947 By Sarah Campbell, Royal Correspondent with the BBC In a marriage that lasted more than seven decades, Prince Philip was the Queen’s support in public at significant national moments — and in private the person who knew her best. As one private secretary once put it: “Prince Philip is the only man in the world who treats the Queen simply as another human being. He’s the only man who can.” It was a marriage…

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* To those that doubt that a woman can be President of Tanzania, I say to you that the one standing before you today is a woman, and President! By Grace Kuria, africacgtn.com Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday stamped her authority as the 6th President of the United Republic of Tanzania, saying, “To those that doubt that a woman can be President of Tanzania, I say to you that the one standing before you today is…

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Samia Suluhu Hassan taking her oath of office * Hides her high qualifications and achievements deep in the report * Suluhu holds university qualifications from Tanzania, UK and the US * The Western world did not particularly love the fallen President Magufuli * But Tanzanians themselves are glorifying their new President * Saying her new leadership could bring about positive changes to the country By Duncan Mlanjira Friday marked a new chapter of leadership in Tanzania as the first-ever…

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Mkapa died on July 23, 2020 By Derrick Bacha, Nairobi News Tanzania President John Magufuli’s death is the latest in a string of prominent deaths to rock the East African country in the past year. Magufuli has buried four prominent personalities that included former President Benjamin Mkapa. Born in 1938 Mkapa, served as the third president of Tanzania between 1995 to 2005 and Magufuli announced Mkapa’s death on July 23, 2020. The Makerere University graduate was 81 at the…

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