Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu Stories

Tanzania opposition leader Lissu accuses President Samia of ignoring electoral reforms, fuelling violence amid political crisis
Lucy Mumbi  |  Nov 25, 2025

Lissu detailed a series of findings by election observers and international actors, warning that the situation in Tanzania has deteriorated into intim...

Guinea-Bissau opposition leader Fernando Dias declares victory in presidential race
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 24, 2025

Guinea-Bissau has experienced repeated instability since gaining independence from Portugal more than 50 years ago, including multiple coups and attem...

Gambia hosts Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma amid post-election crisis
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 24, 2025

Tchiroma, a former minister and once a close ally of President Biya, has declared himself the rightful winner of the October 12 vote and vowed to reje...

Opposition leaders file petition challenging IEBC’s 'centralisation of presidential election results'
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Nov 19, 2025

The coalition is asking the High Court to issue far-reaching declarations, including that the results declared by constituency returning officers are...

Besigye's wife demands immediate release of husband after one year in detention
Lucy Mumbi  |  Nov 17, 2025

Besigye, who faces military court charges, has remained in custody despite repeated calls for bail and mounting concerns over his health. He is accuse...

CHADEMA leaders escape Tanzania to Kenya amid rising threats and abductions
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Nov 13, 2025

Facing raids, abductions, and threats to their lives, Tanzanian CHADEMA leaders have crossed into Kenya seeking urgent protection.

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu’s treason trial delayed again amid security concerns in Dar es Salaam
Lucy Mumbi  |  Nov 10, 2025

State Counsel Thawabu Issa told the High Court that the Prisons Department was unable to present Lissu in court, citing safety concerns.

Tanzania’s President Samia extends olive branch, but crackdown on dissent keeps critics wary
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 10, 2025

Despite urging dialogue and reconciliation, President Samia’s government continues to detain key opposition leaders, fueling doubts over her commitmen...

Patrick Herminie wins Seychelles presidency, ends Ramkalawan’s five-year rule
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 12, 2025

Herminie has promised to lower the retirement age from 65 to 63 and to act on the findings of a truth and reconciliation inquiry into human rights abu...

Former CJ David Maraga vows to team up with opposition to unseat Ruto in 2027
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 06, 2025

In what many view as a bold political move that could redefine opposition unity, Maraga’s decision could pose a serious challenge to Ruto’s bid for a...

ODM dismisses claims that Raila Odinga is unwell, says he is on routine foreign trip
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 05, 2025

The party secretariat clarified that Odinga left the country on Friday evening for one of his routine trips this year and is not in Europe, contrary t...

Somali leaders make peace push with future council launch in Nairobi
Abdirahman Khalif  |  Oct 02, 2025

The leaders said the Somali Future Council was designed to advance those goals and provide a framework for addressing differences through discussion r...

High Court asked to declare Besigye, Lutale extradition illegal after alleged covert operation
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 29, 2025

The two accuse the Kenyan Government of colluding with Ugandan authorities in a covert operation that violated their rights and undermined Kenya's sov...

Amnesty International demands release of 36 opposition supporters jailed in Cameroon
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 22, 2025

In a statement on Monday, Amnesty condemned the ongoing detention of members of the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon (MRC), who were among a l...

Opposition gives IEBC two weeks to release by-election records amid fears of constitutional breaches
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 18, 2025

The opposition is pushing for all minutes of plenary sessions and committee meetings from the swearing-in date to the present, as well as staff meetin...

South Sudan opposition calls mass mobilisation after Riek Machar charged with treason
Mwangi Maina  |  Sep 15, 2025

The SPLM/SPLA-IO described President Salva Kiir’s government as “a setup of dictatorship, peace spoilers and state capture that is holding power illeg...

AU welcomes revised electoral framework agreement in Somalia, urges full implementation
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Aug 28, 2025

The agreement, signed on August 25, 2025, brings together Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and a faction of the main opposition alliance, the S...

Besigye orders lawyers to boycott Ugandan judge over bias
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Aug 27, 2025

Lawyer Kato Tumusiime said Besigye and his co-accused, Obeid Lutale, had given "clear instructions" to their legal team not to appear before Justice B...

Tanzania's Chadema slams closed-door trial as court bars live broadcasts of Tundu Lissu case
Mwangi Maina  |  Aug 18, 2025

On August 18, the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam barred live broadcasts of the high-profile case, citing the need to protect stat...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye denied bail as treason trial drags on
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Aug 09, 2025

The refusal comes despite arguments from Besigye’s legal team that he should be released, as he has been held for more than 180 days without trial.

Cameroon’s Maurice Kamto appeals presidential poll disqualification
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 29, 2025

Cameroon's national electoral body, Elecam, approved only 13 out of the 83 applications, leaving out Maurice Kamto, who was the runner-up in the hotly...

Cameroon’s Maurice Kamto barred from presidential race as Biya seeks to extend 42-year rule
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 27, 2025

Kamto previously contested the presidency under the Cameroon Resistance Movement (CRM), but has not yet publicly commented on his latest disqualificat...

Karua dismisses 2027 opposition line-up speculation as premature
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jul 23, 2025

Karua raised concern over what she described as premature and misleading information being circulated, warning those within their ranks against leakin...

Raila Odinga: I regularly engage Ruto and opposition leaders to heal Kenya’s political wounds
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 20, 2025

Odinga said that Kenya’s democracy must mature to a point where political rivals contest as friends and, once elections are over, can shake hands and...

Tundu Lissu treason case returns to court as DPP faces decision deadline
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 15, 2025

The case, filed by the Tanzanian government, has been adjourned twice, with the DPP yet to announce whether the government will pursue the levelled ch...

Gachagua rejects Raila’s dialogue proposal, calls for "ballot-based change" in 2027
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jul 12, 2025

Gachagua claimed that Raila has a pattern of joining governments after electoral losses, only to distance himself when things go wrong.

Opposition calls for boycott of state-linked businesses in fresh push for justice
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 09, 2025

The leaders said rogue security personnel and government-backed gangs have been deployed to intimidate citizens and destroy property in areas seen as...

Opposition leaders: We’ll prosecute Ruto over graft, extrajudicial killings if elected
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 05, 2025

The leaders further blasted Ruto over what they described as unfair public appointments, saying that the presidency had skewed top state jobs to favou...

Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu leads own defense in treason trial, slams case as baseless
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 01, 2025

According to Tundu Lissu, investigators claim they found a supposed plan online, but no tangible proof has been submitted. He also argued that despite...

Why Opposition’s parallel tribunal aimed at tackling State injustice is within legal bounds -expert
Barack Oduor  |  Jul 01, 2025

A section of Kenya’s opposition leaders recently launched the People’s Restorative Justice Commission (PRJC) in response to what they describe as a gr...

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