NAIROBI — Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Friday the country should unite and avoid pointing fingers after the death of John Magufuli, her COVID-19 skeptic predecessor, urging the east African country to look forward with hope and confidence.
Wearing a red hijab, she took her oath of office on the Koran in a ceremony at State House in the country’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam. She is the first female head of state in the country of 58 million.
Hassan, vice president since 2015, gave a brief and somber address after she was sworn in, addressing a heavily male crowd that included two former presidents and uniformed officers.
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