In the cities, security forces continued to control movement into frequented public areas such as markets and places of worship

The 97.66 percent landslide victory by President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan is attributed to her dedicated efforts towards the realization of people's welfare. When President Dr Samia was sworn-in to assume the top office for the first term on the 19th of March 2021,

Protests are spreading in Tanzania as electoral authorities count the votes in a disputed presidential election that rights groups, opposition figures and others say was clouded by a climate of fear in the months leading to election day.

The authorities in Tanzania responded to widespread protests following the October 29 elections with lethal force and other abuses.

Election violence in Tanzania that opposition groups say left hundreds dead is damaging investors’ confidence in East Africa and hampering regional trade, Kenya’s trade minister told Semafor. Protests broke out during last Wednesday’s election over ...

Following protests that have followed since Tanzania held its elections last week, the government has worked with service providers to block access to social media. This has brought forth concerns about the government doing this to hide the killing of protestors.

The African nation of Tanzania has reconnected to the internet after a five day outage. As noted by outage-watcher NetBlocks and Cloudflare’s Radar service, traffic to and from Tanzania dropped to near-zero early on October 29th – the date of national elections for a new president.

While a spokesperson from the opposition Chadema party told news agency AFP that "around 700" people had been killed in clashes with security forces, a diplomatic source in Tanzania told the BBC there was credible evidence that at least 500 people had died.