Tanzania president cancels independence celebration, diverts appropriated $445,000 to needy children's course Tanzanian first female president, Sammie Suluhu Hassan, has cancelled the country's 61st Independence Day celebration scheduled to hold on Friday. Sammie Suluhu Hassan said $445,000 from the 2022 budget that was earmarked for the celebration would be used to build eight dormitories for children with special needs around the country. She said the unnecessary extravagance of the celebrations informed her decision to use the allocated budget to handle a more urgent project. In a statement on Monday, George Simbachawene, the country’s...