Samia Suluhu Hassan has made history when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president after the death of her controversial predecessor, John Magufuli. The 61-year-old Samia Suluhu Hassan took the oath of office at State House this Friday.
A major test of Samia Suluhu Hassan’s new presidency will be how she deals with the pandemic. Tanzania is also one of Africa’s most populous countries with 60 million people, made no efforts to obtain vaccines or promote the use of masks and social distancing to combat the virus. This policy of ignoring the disease has endangered neighboring countries.
Samia Suluhu Hassan will complete Magufuli's second term that began in October. She has had a meteoric rise in politics in a male-dominated field. After Magufuli selected her as his running mate in 2015, Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania's first female vice president. She was the second woman to become vice president in the region, after Uganda’s Specioza Naigaga Wandira who was in office from 1994 to 2003.
A major test of Samia Suluhu Hassan’s new presidency will be how she deals with the pandemic. Tanzania is also one of Africa’s most populous countries with 60 million people, made no efforts to obtain vaccines or promote the use of masks and social distancing to combat the virus. This policy of ignoring the disease has endangered neighboring countries.
Samia Suluhu Hassan will complete Magufuli's second term that began in October. She has had a meteoric rise in politics in a male-dominated field. After Magufuli selected her as his running mate in 2015, Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania's first female vice president. She was the second woman to become vice president in the region, after Uganda’s Specioza Naigaga Wandira who was in office from 1994 to 2003.
