{"id":25844,"date":"2021-03-25T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=25844"},"modified":"2021-03-25T17:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:42:42","slug":"hillary-clinton-sends-her-best-wishes-to-president-samia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/hillary-clinton-sends-her-best-wishes-to-president-samia","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton sends her best wishes to President Samia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:\u00a0<\/strong> FORMER United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has sent her best wishes to Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan days after she took over the presidency in the East African nation<\/p>\n<p>Samia became the first woman \u00a0President in Tanzania on March 19, following the death of John Magufuli who succumbed to a heart disease on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to her Twitter to congratulate the new president, Clinton sent her best wishes to Suluhu acknowledging she is the first woman to hold the highest political office in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest wishes to @SuluhuSamia, Tanzania\u2019s new president and the first woman to hold the office, as she leads and serves her country,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&#8217;s message came days after US vice president Kamala Harris also gave Samia a shootout and wished her all the best as she took over after Magufuli&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala expressed confidence that Samia was fit for her new role and will steer the country in the right direction and further assured her of the support from her government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States stands ready to work with you to strengthen relations between our countries,&#8221; Kamala Harris said in a tweet sent on Saturday, March 20. 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I want to tell you that whoever has stood here is the president of the Republic of Tanzania whose gender is a woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania:\u00a0 FORMER United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has sent her best wishes to Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan days after she took over the presidency in the East African nation Samia became the first woman \u00a0President in Tanzania on March 19, following the death of John Magufuli who succumbed to a heart disease on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[7790,76],"class_list":["post-25844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-samia-suluhu-hassan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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