Former Tanzania president Benjamin Mkapa speaks during a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan when he was the head of the UN Monitor Group for Southern Sudan on November 23, 2010. He died on July 24, 2020 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. FILE PHOTO | AFP
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta led regional and world leaders in mourning former Tanzanian president Benjamin William Mkapa, who passed on on Friday morning at a hospital in Dar es Salaam.
Mr Kenyatta sent his condolences to President John Magufuli, the people of Tanzania and the family of the late, eulogising Mkapa as an “outstanding East African who worked tirelessly for the integration, peace, and progress of the region."
