INTERNATIONAL
Tanzania President’s husband dies in Zanzibar hospital
By Staff Reporter
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s husband, Hafidh Ameir Hassan, has died in Zanzibar, where he had been receiving treatment for a heart condition.
The death of the First Gentleman was announced by Tanzania’s Vice-president Deogratius Ndejembi, who laid tributes following the President’s loss.
The Tanzanian leader buried her husband at a family residence in Kizimkazi, a village on the country’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar, on Monday evening.
Ameir was an agricultural academic who largely kept a low public profile.
He became Tanzania’s first First Gentleman after President Samia took office in 2021.
