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Tanzania government lifts six-year ban on opposition political rallies

Supporters react as Tanzania's main opposition Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe (not in picture), who was arrested in 2021, leaves the High Court in Dar es Salaam on February 18, 2022. AFP - ERICKY BONIPHACE

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a ban on opposition rallies imposed in 2016 by her strongman predecessor, in an overture to political rivals seeking the restoration of democratic norms.

Addressing party leaders invited to State House on Tuesday, Hassan announced that the "ban on political rallies is now lifted".

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