Tanzania’s Minister of Constitutional and Legal Affairs Augustine Mahiga has died suddenly today morning aged 72, President Magufuli says he succumbed while being rushed to hospital from his Dodoma home.

Sources indicate that 50 people died yesterday in Dar es salaam, Tanzania as a result of being infected with Covid-19. Tanzania’s leader President John Pombe Magufuli has been bashed by the country’s opposition for continuing to defy social distancing rules by encouraging normality in the country.

 Yesterday, Tanzania suspended Parliament sittings following the mysterious death of another Member of Parliament Richard Ndassa on Wednesday in Dodoma.

Ndassa’s death comes 10 days after the ruling party CCM lost another MP Reverend Gartrude Rwakatare who died in Dar es Salaam.

On Saturday April 25, former Mafia MP Abdul Karim Shah who served between 2005 and 2010 also died in Dare Salaam after a short illness and he was buried the following day according to local media.

Tanzania’s covid-19 infections had now reached a scaring 480 with 196 cases reported in a single day.