TANZANIA – A REGIONAL FOCUS FOR ACTIVISTS Tanzanian President Suluhu Hassan's rough treatment of regional activists and opposition figures en route to opposition leader Tundu Lissu's treason trial in May brought East Africa's simmering Gen Z crisis to a boil...

Her stance was made brutally clear when Kenyan and Ugandan activists attempting to attend the trial of opposition Chadema leader Tundu Lissu – who faces sedition charges – were arrested tortured and deported (AC Vol 66 No 3 Newsmaker: Lissu rages against the CCM machine & Vol 66 No 9 Karua takes on the autocrats)...

Ahead of Tundu Lissu's court appearance on 24 April the Pan-African Progressive Leaders Solidarity Network founded by Karua demanded the ‘immediate withdrawal of charges against Mr...

It is a similar story in Tanzania where Tundu Lissu elected chair of the main opposition Chadema party in January has been detained indefinitely on treason charges (AC Vol 66 No 3 Newsmaker: Lissu rages against the CCM machine)...

After seizing control of the opposition Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) party Tundu Lissu now faces the gargantuan task of taking on President Samia Suluhu Hassan and the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) machine...

He then spent two years in exile returning in 2023 only after obtaining guarantees of his safety from Samia (Dispatches 1/2/23 Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven years)...