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Dar es Salaam (AP) - Tanzania's President John Magufuli is dead. He died of heart failure in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, said Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan.

The head of state, whose absence in public had fueled speculation about a Covid 19 disease before his death, long denied the existence of the corona virus in the East African country.

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