{"id":399706,"date":"2020-07-24T09:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=399706"},"modified":"2020-07-24T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T06:54:40","slug":"former-tanzanian-president-benjamin-william-mkapa-dies-at-age-of-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/former-tanzanian-president-benjamin-william-mkapa-dies-at-age-of-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa Dies at Age of 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article__lead\">\n<p>\u00a0Dar es Salaam<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:Former Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa has died at the age of 81 years, incumbent leader John Magufuli said on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\">\n<p>&#8220;Mzee Benjamin William Mkapa, the third President of Tanzania, has died at a Dar es Salaam hospital where he was admitted,&#8221; Magufuli said, as quoted by The Citizen newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent president also called on Tanzanian people to pray for Mkapa.<\/p>\n<p>Mkapa was the third\u00a0president of Tanzania\u00a0in 1995-2005. Before the presidency, he served as the foreign minister, while after 2005 he worked in the United Nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>SPUTNIK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dar es Salaam(SONNA):Former Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa has died at the age of 81 years, incumbent leader John Magufuli said on Friday. &#8220;Mzee Benjamin William Mkapa, the third President of Tanzania, has died at a Dar es Salaam hospital where he was admitted,&#8221; Magufuli said, as quoted by The Citizen newspaper. The incumbent president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399709,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399706\/revisions\/399709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}