Harris visits Tanzania, hails Samia as 'champion' of democracy
US Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan address a news conference following their meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on March 30, 2023. PHOTO | ERICKY BONIPHACE | POOL | AFP
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday hailed Tanzania's leader Samia Suluhu Hassan as a "champion" of democracy, on the latest leg of her landmark trip to Africa.
Harris, the first Black person and first woman to be elected US vice president, spoke alongside Hassan, Tanzania's first female president who has been rolling back the authoritarian policies of her late predecessor John Magufuli.
