SILENT OBSERVER, Dar es Salaam TEACHERS in Tanzania are very angry. They have always been the country’s perennial election assistant returning officers. For the first time in the country’s election history, the government did not involve them in overseeing this year’s general election, particularly at polling stations. President John...
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WITH widespread irregularities, the election is already rigged, but Tanzanians are taking part as a sign of protest against a dictatorship they are bent on defeating, anyway. The most...
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Tanzanians circumvent draconian laws to resist Internet shutdown on election day
THE government of Tanzania shut down Internet on the eve of the general election, in an obvious attempt to facilitate the rigging of the election, but the people quickly...
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Magufuli’s police throw tear gas at opposition presidential candidate’s public rally in Kilwa
THE ruling party is wary of the pace of the opposition candidate in Tanzania five days ahead of the election day. Overwhelmed by the people’s massive resistance against the...
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Tanzania’s electoral commission accused of manipulating voters’ register, polling centres
There is every indication that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) in Tanzania is conspiring with the ruling party (CCM) to rig the election in favour of the incumbent, John...
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The US makes a conditional demand on Tanzania’s general election regarding fairness, credibility
The following is an editorial of the US Ambassador to Tanzania, Donald Wright, on the election in Tanzania, reproduced verbatim: I first came to Tanzania over 30 years ago...
WATANZANIA wengi wamesikia malalamiko ya mgombea urais Zanzibar kupitia ACT-Wazalendo, Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, akidai kuwa Tume ya Uchaguzi ya Zanzibar (ZEC) imeongeza majina ya wapigakura hewa 117,000 ili...
THE National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Tanzania and the police force have been colluding to threaten opposition candidates with systemic violence in a bid to rig the general election...
Na Venance Stephen, Dar es Salaam MGOMBEA Urais kwa tiketi ya ACT-Wazalendo, Bernard Membe, ameibuka na kutangaza mbele ya waandishi wa habari kwamba ataendelea kuwa mgombea, licha ya viongozi...
TUNDU Lissu, Tanzania’s phenomenal presidential candidate facing incumbent John Magufuli, has defied a temporary suspension of his campaign by the National Electoral Commission (NEC), saying it is unfair, unlawful...