Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu has claimed that President John Magufuli had died from the coronavirus. The country's vice-president announced last night that Mr Magufuli, who had not been seen in public for nearly three weeks, had died in a hospital in Dar es Salaam from a heart condition he had suffered from for a decade.
But Mr Lissu, who ran and lost against Mr Magufuli in a disputed October election, said the 61-year-old leader had succumbed to coronavirus and the government was "lying even now that he is dead". "Magufuli died of corona," said Mr Lissu from Belgium in an interview broadcast on Kenyan network KTN News, citing his sources.