After weeks of speculation over his health, Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has been pronounced dead. He leaves behind a mixed legacy of development, authoritarianism, and more recently, COVID-19 denial. The World’s Halima Gikandi reports from Nairobi, Kenya.
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