Following the late President Magufuli’s recent death, Vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has been sworn in as his successor, making her Tanzania’s first woman president. Magufuli, who won a second term in October 2020, dramatically centralised power and pursued an interventionist economic policy agenda. He courted controversy on a number of fronts, most recently, by claiming that Tanzania – contrary to mounting evidence – was Covid-free.
