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Tanzania's first female president has defied early hopes that she would ease repression

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who rose from the vice presidency to become the country’s first female leader in 2021, is seeking her first elected term in office in a vote set for Oct. 29

The Independent UK

Tanzania’s Samia Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism: here’s how

As Tanzania’s national elections approach, a familiar humdrum of coverage has emerged. It goes like this. In its crackdowns, censorship and harassment of the opposition, Tanzania is becoming increasingly repressive.

The Conversation

Tanzania’s ruling party has crushed the opposition – the elections are a mere formality

Tanzania has conducted regular polls since the first multiparty elections in 1995. But they have often failed to meet democratic standards. The opposition has been persistently excluded and restricted, and media freedoms and civil rights have been suppressed. This pattern has come to be identified as electoral authoritarianism.

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Tanzania opposition presidential candidate banned from running, again

Tanzanian opposition presidential candidate Luhaga Mpina has been banned from running in next month’s election for the second time, reversing a decision made last week approving his nomination.

Radio France Internationale

Abdulrazak Gurnah: searching for signs of Zanzibar’s most famous writer, all I found was trinkets and tourists

Zanzibar has long been an island of arrivals for traders, sailors, slaves and, more recently, waves of tourists. I arrived as a wedding guest and a reader of the Zanzibar born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, in search of the literary and emotional landscapes that shape his fiction. For a week, I…

The Conversation

‘We won’t let them get away with this’: activists to sue Tanzania’s government over ‘sexual torture’

Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire vow to hold authorities accountable as repression intensifies before October elections

The Guardian - UK

Tanzanian politician's lawyers ask UN to declare his detention arbitrary

Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in a bid to ramp up international pressure for his release.

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Sexually Assaulted And Smeared In Excrement: Uganda Activist Details Torture In Tanzania

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.

International Business Times

‘Tortured’ Ugandan activist dumped at border following arrest in Tanzania

East African rights groups condemn Tanzania after Agather Atuhaire was found at the Ugandan border.

Al Jazeera

Tanzania blocks access to X after it says hackers targeted government accounts

Authorities in Tanzania have blocked access to the social platform X after cyberattacks on some accounts of government institutions resulted in fake or pornographic posts

The Independent UK

Tanzania Opposition Leader Due In Court On Treason Charge

Tanzania's opposition leader Tundu Lissu was set to appear in court on Thursday to face a charge of treason, which carries a potential death penalty, weeks after his party was disqualified from upcoming elections.

International Business Times

Tension high in Tanzania ahead of opposition leader's 'treason' trial

Tension is rising further on the political scene in Tanzania ahead of the trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu. Accused of treason, his Chadema political party was this month excluded from the presidential race scheduled for October, sparking concern among human rights groups.

Radio France Internationale

Tanzania's top opposition party barred from upcoming election

Chadema,Tanzania's main opposition party, has been disqualified from running in this year's general election, the country's election chief said, after it refused to sign an electoral code of conduct. It comes just days after its leader was charged with treason.

Radio France Internationale

Tanzania’s main opposition Chadema party barred from upcoming elections

A treason charge and the exclusion of the main opposition draw attention before October polls in Tanzania.

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International Business Times

Tanzanian Opposition Leader Lissu Charged With Treason

Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu was charged on Thursday with treason, which carries the death penalty, a day after being detained following a rally, one of his lawyers told AFP. The east African nation has increasingly cracked down on its opposition, with Lissu's Chadema party accusing President Samia Suluhu…

The Independent UK

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is sworn in as Namibia's first female leader

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been sworn in as Namibia’s first female president

Radio France Internationale

Tanzania's president Hassan to run in October polls

Tanzania's ruling party on Sunday nominated President Samia Suluhu Hassan as its candidate in general elections due in October in the east African country. Hassan took office in 2021 after the sudden death of her authoritarian predecessor John Magufuli.

The Guardian - UK

Nay wa Mitego, the Tanzanian rapper who has been banned, jailed and threatened but says he won’t stop

Making hip-hop critical of the government has caused him trouble, but Nay insists his music is a force for change

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The Guardian - UK

Tanzania opposition laments its ‘naivety’ over president as repression intensifies

Recent killings and arrests of government critics suggest end of reformist approach under Samia Suluhu Hassan, say political rivals

International Business Times

Opposition Figures Killed As Tanzania Holds Local Election

Tanzanian opposition party Chadema, said two of its members were killed on the eve of Wednesday's local elections, and accused the authorities of rigging the vote.

The Guardian - UK

Tanzania suspends news websites over ad referencing killings of dissidents

Regulator says advert by publisher of the Citizen newspaper ‘likely to harm national unity’

The Guardian - UK

Tanzania opposition leaders arrested amid crackdown on dissent

Protest had been planned against alleged disappearances and killings of government critics by security forces

Al Jazeera

Tanzanian police crack down on planned opposition rally

Leaders arrested following police chief’s warning of tough measures to block protest.

Al Jazeera

Slain Tanzanian opposition figure beaten, doused with acid: Party

Body of Ali Mohamed Kibao, who was removed from a bus by armed men, found with signs he had been beaten, Chadema says.

Radio France Internationale

Freed Tanzanian opposition leaders 'beaten' during mass arrests

Top leaders from Tanzania's main opposition Chadema party and other senior officials were freed on bail Tuesday following their arrests ahead of a planned youth event in the southwestern city of Mbeya. Chadema said they had been badly beaten during their detention.

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