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Deaths feared in locked-down Tanzania after election chaos
AFP, Published on 30/10/2025
» DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - Tanzania was on lockdown with a communications blackout Thursday, a day after elections turned into violent chaos with unconfirmed reports of many dead.
Tanzania polls open with opposition excluded
AFP, Published on 29/10/2025
» ZANZIBAR — Polls opened on Wednesday in Tanzania elections in which the main challengers were either jailed or barred from running, with rights groups decrying a "wave of terror".
Sexually assaulted and smeared in excrement: Uganda activist details torture in Tanzania
AFP, Published on 25/05/2025
» KAMPALA - Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands of security forces in Tanzania this week.
Ugandan activist details torture in Tanzania
AFP, Published on 24/05/2025
» KAMPALA - Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands of security forces in Tanzania this week.
Tanzania opposition leader defiant as he appears for treason trial
AFP, Published on 19/05/2025
» NAIROBI - Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu appeared in court on Monday for his latest hearing in a treason trial in which he faces a potential death penalty.
Tanzania's Tundu Lissu: jailed, shot and exiled, but unbowed
AFP, Published on 25/01/2023
» DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzanian opposition stalwart Tundu Lissu has been arrested countless times, pumped full of bullets in an assassination attempt and lived largely in exile for more than five years.
Tanzania opposition stalwart Lissu to return from exile
AFP, Published on 25/01/2023
» DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu was heading home from exile on Wednesday to "write a new chapter" following the president's lifting of a ban on political assembly.
Tanzania swears in first female president after Magufuli's sudden death
AFP, Published on 19/03/2021
» DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country's first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery.
Tanzania President Magufuli dies of 'heart condition'
AFP, Published on 18/03/2021
» DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian President John Magufuli died Wednesday aged 61 from a heart condition, his vice president said, after more than five years of divisive, authoritarian rule capped by his refusal to take Covid-19 seriously.
The mystery of Tanzania's missing president
AFP, Published on 16/03/2021
» DAR ES SALAAM - Where is Tanzania's President John Magufuli?