More than 700 demonstrators have reportedly died during three days of protests in Tanzania following the country’s presidential election, which saw the increasingly authoritarian incumbent, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, run unopposed after her main challengers were jailed or barred from standing Reacting to the crisis, Tanzania’s main opposition party, Chadema, said the death toll had…
A former vice president who rose to the presidency after the death of predecessor John Pombe Magufuli, Samia Suluhu Hassan initially gave indications that she would relax the government’s repressive tactics against opposition leaders, civic groups, journalists and others. But as Hassan seeks her first properly elected term in Oct. 29 elections, critics say she…
A man in Tanzania who came to the hospital complaining of pain and pus discharge from his right nipple was shocked to learn that he had been living with a large knife lodged in his chest for eight years, the country’s media reported. Doctors at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania recently published a most…
Tanzanian authorities have blocked citizens’ access to the microblogging platform X after the hackers compromised the country’s police X account. Netblocks, a platform tracking cybersecurity and digital governance, confirmed on Tuesday that the government of the East African country blocked access to X after hackers compromised and deployed Tanzanian police X handle to falsely announce…