The government of Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu has admitted that people died following protests witnessed after the October 2025 General Election. The admission was made during an event at State House in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, April 23, 2026, where President Suluhu received the report of the Presidential Commission tasked with investigating incidents of
CHADEMA has intensified its demands, formally calling for the results to be annulled and the creation of a transitional government overseen by the UN for the general election on October 29, 2025. The action takes place in the midst of a worsening political crisis after Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared the winner of
Seventeen Western countries have issued a joint statement calling on the Government of Tanzania to urgently release the bodies of people killed during recent election-related violence, free political prisoners, and uphold fundamental freedoms in the country. In the statement, the countries, among them the United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland,