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With Tundu Lissu the leader of the main opposition party Chadema still in prison facing treason charges and Chadema banned from standing candidates few doubt that President Samia Suluhu Hassan will be re-elected with a landslide and that her ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) will win almost all the parliamentary seats (AC Vol 66 No 11 President Hassan turns bulldozer)...
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Her main potential opponent Chadema leader Tundu Lissu is in jail facing trumped up treason charges having already been banned from standing...
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Vol 66 No 13 |
- EAST AFRICA
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...
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Vol 66 No 11 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Mwangi says that he was held for four days in Tanzania where he was hoping to attend the trial of Tundu Lissu leader of the opposition Chadema party who faces sedition charges...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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Vol 66 No 2 |
- KENYA
- TANZANIA
Last year Tanzanian opposition politicians including Freeman Mbowe and Tundu Lissu were detained and beaten by police (Dispatches 22/10/24 Opposition cries foul over latest brutal attack and poll rigging)...
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