Dar es Salaam, March 2 -- TANZANIA: PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan, in a very sombre mood, announced the death of Ali Hassan Mwinyi, former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, in the early evening of Thursday, February 29, 2024, at the ripe old age of ninety-eight years.

The late President Mwinyi had also served as President of Zanzibar, a partner State in the Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

One ancient Roman poet, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, who lived before Christ (BC), penned the following lines in one of his poems: “Pale Death kicks his way equally into the cottages of the poor and the castles of kings.” Whave no choice but to say, “Kwa heri, Buriani Mzee Rukhsa.”

As another Roman satirist of the sa...