Tanzania election violence Stories
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...
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...
The senators described the October 29 elections as a sham, citing vote manipulation, abductions, and state-sponsored suppression.
Mwigulu Nchemba succeeds Kassim Majaliwa, who had held the position for a decade.
The Tanzanian Parliament is set to approve the appointment later on Thursday following Suluhu's decisive win in the October 29 polls.
The arrests and detentions followed post-election violence in the country, which left one Kenyan teacher shot dead and led to hundreds of deaths and i...
The call comes amid reports that security forces may have taken bodies to undisclosed locations, leaving families struggling to locate their loved one...
State Counsel Thawabu Issa told the High Court that the Prisons Department was unable to present Lissu in court, citing safety concerns.
The two said their ordeal began at military checkpoints and escalated at police stations where they were held in inhumane conditions with dozens of ot...
Khama, who served as Botswana’s president from 2008 to 2018, also criticised Cameroon President Paul Biya, recently sworn in at 92 years old, saying t...
The released citizens, lawyer Fredrick Lorent Obuya and financial professional John Gitahi Nderitu, had been taken into custody as part of a wider cra...
Golugwa becomes the third senior party leader to be detained in recent weeks, following the arrests of Chairperson Tundu Lissu and Vice-Chairperson Jo...
Ogutu, a teacher at Sky Schools in Dar es Salaam, was shot dead on October 29, 2025, while his compatriot, Fredrick Lorent Obuya, was unlawfully arres...
The activists said President Samia Suluhu Hassan had lost legitimacy, forfeited the moral mandate to govern, and now presides over what they termed ma...
Among those killed were journalists Master Tindwa of Clouds Media, who was shot at his home in Temeke, and Kelvin Lameck Mwakangondya of Baraka FM, wh...
Amnesty International Kenya, Vocal Africa and Defenders Coalition condemned the ongoing violence, human rights violations and breakdown of the rule of...
The groups warn that the country is facing its worst human rights crisis in decades and are calling for urgent regional and international intervention...
Interior PS Omollo said that the Kenyan Embassy in Dar es Salaam has been engaged to coordinate arrangements for recovering Ogutu’s body for autopsy a...
Mudavadi said Nairobi had reported a number of cases where the rights of Kenyans had been infringed and that these incidents "have been formally submi...
The State Department of Foreign Affairs urged Kenyans to share the names and contacts of those at risk through its official channels to enable quick a...
The advisory comes after human rights group Vocal Africa called on the Kenyan government to intervene following reports that two Kenyans were caught u...
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has written to Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, expressing concern over the reported killing of Ogutu.
Tanzania's opposition party CHADEMA says at least 700 civilians were killed in a three-day crackdown following disputed polls, as the UN and rights gr...
