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Caption: Released Chadema leader, including vice chairman John Heche (centre). Photo credit: Suleiman Mpochi

Tanzanian police release Chadema opposition leaders

The opposition officials and hundreds of youths from across the country were arrested in the wake of last month’s general elections

A Tanzanian commission investigating deadly unrest following the October 2025 general election has recommended national reconciliation, criminal investigations and fast-tracking a new Constitution by 2028. Photo: Wainaina Mburu

Tanzania’s post-election violence raises doubts over credibility of 2025 polls

Authorities have not released an official death toll, but unconfirmed reports suggest the number of fatalities could exceed 1 000

Tanzania’s President Samia Hassan

Tanzania’s political parties hold final campaign rallies ahead of elections

Tanzanian political parties are winding up their bids to win over the 37.6 million people expected to vote on Wednesday

Politics will shape your tomorrow, whether you participate or not. You can either shape it consciously or be shaped by it painfully. The choice is between vigilance and victimhood.

Security tight in Tanzania ahead of Wednesday’s elections

Tanzanians are using social media to call for mass demonstrations before Wednesday’s poll

Tanzanian presidential hopeful Luhaga Mpina

Tanzania’s court rules against Mpina’s presidential bid

He has vowed to continue his legal fight and his party is still campaigning for the election in two weeks’ time

Luhaga Mpina of the Alliance for Change and Transparency Wazalendo party

Tanzania’s high court to decide on Luhaga Mpina’s presidential bid

Mpina filed an appeal last month against his removal from the race by the Independent National Electoral Commission

Tanzania’s President Samia Hassan

Tanzanians go to the polls with unresolved constitutional reforms

Government critics abducted, the main opposition leader detained and the presidential candidate for the second largest opposition party disqualified indicate a government…

President Samia Suluhu Hassan

Mpina’s removal from Tanzania’s presidential race boosts Samia’s reelection chances

Tanzania’s 2025 general elections campaign has taken a dramatic turn after the removal of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT Wazalendo) party’s candidate — former…

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Road to Tanzania’s presidential election paved with blood and fear

In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera. (Guerecia/AFP)

Malawi elections provide a global lesson in democracy

COMMENT: Opposition candidates and party can increase their chances of success at the polls by putting aside minor differences and presenting a united front

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The October election season: Guinea, Tanzania and Cote D’Ivoire head to the polls

October is election month as three presidents seek another term in office. For two, it will be their third

Bobi Wine addresses supporters outside his recording studio on October 31, 2019 in Kampala, Uganda. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

Bobi Wine presents his presidential credentials

The Ugandan opposition leader believes he is best-placed to lead an opposition coalition