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Tanzanian President John Magufuli during the 2020 presidential campaign. File photo.
It has been 17 days since the last public appearance of the President of Tanzania, John Magufuli. He is 61 years old and there are rumors that he has contracted covid-19. Despite this, the authorities do not comment on his whereabouts.
Just raising the question of where you are can lead to an arrest.
– Whatever happens, the government is obviously trying to buy time, says Nic Cheeseman, professor of democracy at the University of Birmingham.
Several high-ranking people in Tanzania have recently died or become ill with what is described as respiratory problems or pneumonia. Last month, the Finance Minister appeared at a press conference where he coughed and gasped for breath.
The Tanzanian government stopped reporting statistics on infected and dead in covid-19 in May of last year. The country had 509 infected and 21 dead.
