Dar es Salaam — Tanzania's President John Magufuli has cancelled Independence Day celebrations, and has ordered a clean-up campaign instead.
"It would be shameful to spend huge sums of money on the celebrations when our people are dying of cholera" BBC News quoted President Magufuli as saying.
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