Tanzanians have been thrown into mourning again following the death of former Tanzania President Ali Hassan Mwinyi.<\/p>\n
President Samia Suluhu announced on Thursday evening, just 19 days after the death of former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa.<\/p>\n
President Suluhu said Mwinyi died in hospital in Dar es Salaam where he was receiving treatment for lung cancer. He had been receiving treatment since November.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn behalf of the government, I would like to convey my condolences to the family, relatives, friends and all Tanzanians for this loss,\u201d President Suluhu said.<\/p>\n
Mwinyi aged 98, was the second President of Tanzania between 1985 and 1995.<\/p>\n
He was early this month hospitalised for a chest illness.<\/p>\n
Ndugu wananchi, kwa majonzi makubwa nasikitika kutangaza kifo cha Rais Mstaafu wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Mheshimiwa Ali Hassan Mwinyi, ambaye amefariki dunia leo Alhamisi tarehe 29 Februari mwaka 2024 saa 11:30 jioni, katika Hospitali ya Kumbukumbu ya Emilio Mzena, Dar\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/GRy0ztdKgm<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Samia Suluhu (@SuluhuSamia) February 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi passes on<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tanzanians have been thrown into mourning again following the death of former Tanzania President Ali Hassan Mwinyi. President Samia Suluhu announced on Thursday evening, just 19 days after the death of former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa. President Suluhu said Mwinyi died in hospital in Dar es Salaam where he was receiving treatment for lung cancer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}