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Tanzanians are voting today in the General Elections of the United Republic of Tanzania, where President Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party is expected to defend her position for another five-year term. It is the seventh election since the restoration of the multi-party system in …

Vice Chairman of the Democratic Party for Development and Democracy, CHADEMA, John Heche was arrested this morning while outside the High Court to attend a case facing him and other party leaders, as well as to monitor the progress of the treason case facing the party’s Chairman, Tundu Lissu. Click …

The treason case facing Chadema Chairman, Tundu Lissu, has been prevented from being broadcast live or from publishing evidence after the Court issued a special order to protect confidential civil witnesses. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Reading the decision today, Kisutu Magistrate Franko Kiswaga said the stay was …

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan journalist Agather Atuhaire have recounted horrifying experiences of abuse and torture while in Tanzania, where they had travelled on May 18, 2025, to support opposition leader Tundu Lissu during his treason trial. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel What was meant to be …

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi was deported from Tanzania on Thursday morning and left in Ukunda, Kwale County. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel According to his family, Mwangi appeared frail and injured upon arrival and was immediately taken to a hospital in Diani for medical evaluation. “We received a …

Nelson Koech, Chair of the National Assembly’s Defence, Intelligence, and Foreign Relations Committee, has responded to Tanzania’s decision to deny entry to Martha Karua, leader of the People’s Liberation Party (PLP). Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel In a Monday interview on Citizen TV, Koech acknowledged that while Tanzania …

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi has raised alarm over his safety, claiming that unidentified armed individuals in plain clothes attempted to access his hotel room in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Mwangi, who is in the country to support detained Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, …

A Tanzanian court has charged Tundu Lissu, the leader of the main opposition party CHADEMA, with treason following remarks he made urging the public to resist upcoming elections scheduled for later this year. Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel Lissu, who was the runner-up in the 2020 presidential race, …

Kenya’s Nairobi Senator, Edwin Sifuna, was among a group of prominent African political leaders who were denied entry into Angola on Thursday, despite being invited by the country’s main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). Click here to join our WhatsApp Channel The delegation, …

By: BBC Two leaders of Tanzania’s main opposition Chadema party are among 14 members who have been arrested, as police attempted to block a banned demonstration in the main city, Dar es Salaam. Chadema said on X that its chairman, Freeman Mbowe, was taken into custody as he was preparing …