Chadema party says deputy secretary general arrested and calls election of incumbent president fraudulent Tanzanian authorities have detained a senior official from the main opposition party, Chadema, amid a spate of arrests in connection to deadly protests during elections last week. More than 1,000 people were killed by security forces during the demonstrations, according to … Read more
The United Nations said at least 10 people had been killed. Opposition leaders claimed the death toll could be in the hundreds, and one official called for the military to step in.
Election monitors and members of the European Parliament have questioned the election’s integrity, and violent protests have rocked the country.
The result hands Hassan, who took power in 2021, a five-year term following opposition repression Tanzania’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has been declared the winner of the country’s disputed election with more than 97% of the vote following violent protests across the country earlier in the week. The landslide result announced by Tanzania’s electoral commission … Read more
Demonstrators took to streets after president’s main challengers were excluded from ballot About 700 people have been killed during three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party has said. Protests erupted on election day on Wednesday over what demonstrators said was the stifling of the opposition after the exclusion of key candidates … Read more