The detention and torture of Boniface Mwangi, one of Kenya’s most prominent civil society activists, is the latest move by President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s increasingly authoritarian government. Hassan...

Charging opposition leader Tundu Lissu with treason and banning him from this year’s election shows that President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s opening of Tanzania’s political space has ended. Calls...

The kidnapping and subsequent release hours later of the Tanzanian political activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai in Nairobi is the latest in a chilling series of abductions involving the...

The crackdown on Tanzania’s opposition continues ahead of November’s local elections. On Monday, the opposition Chadema party reported that Aisha Machano, its women’s wing publicity secretary, had been...

The leader of the opposition Chadema party, Freeman Mbowe, has urged President Samia Suluhu Hassan to set up a judicial commission to investigate the assassination of his close...