Tanzania: Reports of violence, fake ballots dominate local elections
While polls opened on Wednesday for voting in Tanzania local elections widely seen as a litmus test for parliamentary and presidential elections due next year. Opposition party Chadema on Wednesday said three of its members were killed in incidents linked to local elections and accused the authorities of rigging the vote.
Tanzania local elections: Opposition says three members killed ahead of vote
Tanzania's main opposition party says three of its members have been killed on the eve of local elections.
Opposition candidates killed in Tanzania local election
Tanzanian opposition party Chadema, said two of its members were killed on the eve of Wednesday's local elections, and accused the authorities of rigging the vote. Chadema said another local party leader,
Tanzania Opposition Leader Arrested Ahead Of Local Polls
One of Tanzania's main opposition leaders, Freeman Mbowe, was detained by police on Friday, his Chadema party said, after officers dispersed an opposition rally with tear gas just days before local elections.
Three opposition candidates killed as Tanzania holds local election
Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe said on X that one of its candidates, Modestus Timbisimilwa, was shot dead by police in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam as he attempted to stop "fake and invalid ballots" being delivered to a polling station.
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