{"id":41738,"date":"2020-07-24T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T09:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-former-president-benjamin-mkapa-dead\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T17:39:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T17:39:27","slug":"tanzania-former-president-benjamin-mkapa-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-former-president-benjamin-mkapa-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania former president Benjamin Mkapa dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mkapa, the East African nation&#8217;s third president who led several regional peace mediation efforts in office and afterward, died while receiving treatment at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Magufuli said, without giving more details.<\/p>\n<p>He declared a seven day mourning period, during which all flags will be flown at half-mast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Magufuli asks all Tanzanians to remain calm, patient, and united during this difficult time,&#8221; a statement from his office said.<\/p>\n<p>Mkapa, 81, also served as an ambassador, minister, and key official of the ruling CCM party, Magufuli said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36301 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mkapa_yagarutse_mu_rwanda_mu_nama_yahuje_abahoze_ari_abakuru_b_ibihugu_muri_afurika_african_leadership_forum_alf_yabaye_ku_wa_2_kanama_2018-ceeee.jpg\" alt=\"Tanzania&#039;s former President Benjamin Mkapa, who served from 1995 to 2005, died in the early hours of Friday,\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s former President Benjamin Mkapa, who served from 1995 to 2005, died in the early hours of Friday, President John Magufuli said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41738"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41738"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}