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Tanzania’s Chadema party has rejected October 29, 2025 elections, demanding a UN‑backed transitional government, new polls, rights reforms and account...
According to the centre, the shutdown paralysed critical services including mobile banking, telehealth, emergency alerts, and access to election-relat...
President Samia described Mhagama's long-standing service to the nation, noting that for 38 years, she had been a prominent member of Chama Cha Mapind...
Ottawa, which has provided about $3.4 billion in development assistance to Tanzania since independence, had long regarded the country as one of East A...
Tanzania’s Legal and Human Rights Centre reports rising 2025 abuses, including over 40 enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and treason cha...
The police recalled an update shared shortly after midnight on December 9, in which they assured citizens that joint security and defence teams would...
Security presence was heightened in several cities. In Dar es Salaam, police and army personnel patrolled major streets.
Government spokesperson Mussa Azzan Zungu said the directive is aimed at balancing national celebration with public order.
Tanzania Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba slammed the alleged financiers, saying the funds could have been used to improve essential public services ins...
The Kenya High Commission in Dar es Salaam has issued a safety advisory to Kenyans in Tanzania ahead of December 9 Independence Day, amid fears of ill...
The decision, which was arrived at on December 4, was announced on Friday in a statement published by its Embassy in Tanzania.
Tanzania's response has been predictable. Officials describe the criticism as foreign interference and insist that the country will not be 'lectured b...
17 diplomatic missions and UN experts are pressing Tanzania to investigate alleged extrajudicial killings after the October 29 elections, release poli...
The US is comprehensively reviewing relations with Tanzania after disputed October 29 elections, as UN experts allege at least 700 extrajudicial killi...
President Samia Suluhu said the deployment was necessary to prevent protesters from toppling her administration, dismissing criticism from neighbourin...
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Thursday condemned the excessive use of force by Tanzanian security forces against protesters, which left...
Karua argued that the AU has taken no action against Samia’s administration despite detailed reports by SADC and AU observers flagging major issues in...
The government said the measure is necessary to curb mobility that could enable unrest during the demonstrations called by youth groups challenging Pr...
Lawyer Juan Carlos Gutierrez, representing victims, claims that as commander-in-chief, “President Samia Suluhu Hassan bears ultimate responsibility fo...
Lissu detailed a series of findings by election observers and international actors, warning that the situation in Tanzania has deteriorated into intim...
The Committee stressed that any investigation must be independent and immediate. “There must be an independent investigation into these tragic acts im...
Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba said the budget allocated for festivities would instead be redirected to repair public infrastructure damaged during th...
According to CNN, its investigation found that police and armed men shot at groups of protesters in the wake of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s re-ele...
East African activists are breaking borders to challenge repression, amplify suppressed voices, and redefine democracy across the region.
President Samia said the investigation would examine the causes of the unrest, the involvement of political parties, and the role of both local and fo...
The CS said efforts to trace Kenyan teacher John Ogutu’s body in Tanzanian hospitals and mortuaries have not yielded results.
CHADEMA said Samia lacks political, legal and moral legitimacy to convene a body tasked with investigating actions it claims were orchestrated by her...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan cautioned that this could undermine the government’s ability to obtain external financing as easily as it had during the...
CHADEMA is demanding that all unlawfully detained citizens, members, and leaders be released immediately and unconditionally.
During his visit, Chakwera is expected to meet government officials, opposition figures, civil society leaders, religious authorities, and internation...
