Samia Suluhu Hassan
Wednesday, 12 Jan 2022 18:00 pm
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- Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania's sixth president and first-ever female leader in March 2021, following the death of President John Magufuli.
- She rose to the position from vice-president, a role to which she was first elected in 2015.
- In September, she became just the fifth-ever female African leader to address the U.N. General Assembly. She used her remarks to criticize Covid vaccine inequality.
- Suluhu has differentiated her leadership from her predecessor by implementing stricter Covid protocols, including mandatory quarantines for travelers coming from countries with new variants.