TUNDU Lissu, the opposition’s presidential candidate in Tanzania’s just-ended general election has left for exile in Europe, citing life threats from “unknown people.” Lissu had previously been arrested by police on 2nd November 2020 within the premises of the German Embassy in Dar es Salaam, before the embassy intervened...
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TANZANIA’s opposition candidate in the just-ended general election, Tundu Lissu, is seeking asylum, citing secret reports of President John Magufuli allegedly ordering his squad to eliminate him. Unconfirmed reports...
POLICE in Dar es Salaam have arrested the leader of the opposition in Tanzania, Freeman Mbowe, in an attempt to foil the mass protests over the stolen presidential and...
ON 27th October at his final campaign rally in Dar es Salaam, Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s presidential candidate for the opposition, said that sources within the National Electoral Commission (NEC)...
HAKUNA lugha yenye uwezo wa kueleza kilichotokea katika uchaguzi mkuu wa Tanzania 2020. Waweza kusema “haramu,” “unajisi wa demokrasia”, “ubakaji uliokithiri,” “uhaini dhidi ya mamlaka ya wananchi,” au ”...
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...
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...