 With an outside Africa now, European nation's foreign office says German ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died, barely two weeks into the job. Hecker, who was a foreign policy advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, had just taken up his post on the 24th of August. The embassy in Chinese capital said, in a posting on its social media WeChat account, the cause of death is yet to be confirmed. An embassy spokesperson declined further comments to newsmen.