From left: Former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa and public health expert Faustine Ndugulile. They are among the prominent Tanzanians who died in 2024.
As Tanzanians prepared to vote in local elections in November, a tragedy struck far from the political fray. Public health expert Dr Faustine Ndugulile, a former deputy minister for Health who had just won a seat as the World Health Organisation's (WHO) regional director for Africa, died in India, where he had been receiving medical treatment.
Ndugulile, 55, died a few months before he was due to take up the post, which would have seen him oversee 47 countries under the WHO's jurisdiction, following his election in August.
