Tanzania

[RFI] Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema on Sunday rejected President Samia Suluhu Hassan's landslide victory in elections that triggered deadly protests across the country over the exclusion of her key challengers from the vote.

[The Conversation Africa] In Tanzania, something snapped this year. Protests followed the 29 October 2025 elections. They are unprecedented in their scale, national breadth and political content since the country's independence in 1961.

[RFI] Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, official results revealed on Saturday.

[UN News] The UN is calling for restraint in Tanzania, amid deadly protests following the 29 October general election, as the country remains under curfew and faces widespread internet restrictions.

[RFI] Around 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the midst of an internet blackout.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Tanzania's electoral commission has declared President Samia Suluhu Hassan the winner of Wednesday's general election with nearly 98 per cent of the vote, extending her rule for another five years under the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM). But the announcement has been overshadowed by some of the worst political violence the country has […]

[Nyasa Times] Economic ripples from Tanzania's post-election unrest are now being felt deep inside Malawi, with hundreds of transporters--including fuel tankers--trapped at the Kasumulu Border and supply chains grinding to a halt.

[Nyasa Times] Tanzania was plunged into its worst political crisis in decades Thursday, as nationwide protests against alleged electoral theft turned violently lethal, prompting a military lockdown, a near-total internet blackout, and casting the whereabouts of President Samia Suluhu into mystery.

[Daily Trust] President Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken a commanding early lead in Tanzania's controversial general elections, even as the country reels from violent protests, a nationwide lockdown, and mounting allegations of electoral fraud.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government has heightened security along its borders with Tanzania following unrest triggered by Wednesday's disputed general election, to prevent any potential spillover of violence into Kenya.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan's administration has ordered all government ministries, agencies and regional offices to remain closed, and directed the private sector to comply with stay-at-home instructions, as authorities moved to enforce sweeping security measures a day after violent protests marred the general election.

[Capital FM] Civil society groups in Tanzania have called for the nullification of Wednesday's general election and the formation of an inclusive transitional arrangement, saying the vote was neither free nor competitive after top opposition contenders were locked out of the race.

[RFI] Authorities in Tanzania have imposed a curfew in Dar es Salaam, the country's biggest city, following violent unrest between the police and protesters that erupted during Wednesday's general election which is expected to offer President Samia Suluhu Hassan a second term.

[allAfrica] Tanzania's general elections triggered widespread protests in key cities including Dar es Salaam and Arusha as citizens demonstrated for the first time in 65 years. The absence of credible opposition candidates and the arrest of prominent opposition leader Tundu Lissu sparked the action as thousands of protesters took to the streets in defiance […]

[263Chat] The Director of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, Dr Blessing Vava was denied entry into Tanzania and deported on Tuesday in what the coalition has described as a barbaric act of repression by Tanzanian authorities.

[Daily Maverick] One would have expected Tanzania, as the de facto leader of the Frontline States, to defend the gains of the liberation struggle and to be a leader in democratic practices. But alas, it has projected the worst of practices that are undemocratic in post-independent African states.

[Capital FM] Kisumu -- A prominent Kisumu-based lawyer and former East Africa Law Society president James Aggrey Mwamu has called for urgent electoral reforms in Tanzania, saying the country stands at a "critical democratic crossroads."

[The Conversation Africa] Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used them to define Homo habilis - the earliest known member of our own genus.

[Daily Maverick] Tanzania's election is a coronation, not a poll, amid brutal crackdown with troops in the streets, detained citizens and opposition leader Tundu Lissu on death row.

[Daily Maverick] Tanzania's mainland election is a done deal, but the ACT-Wazalendo opposition is giving the ruling CCM a real fight in Zanzibar.

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- OVER 37 million Tanzanians today are expected to vote across the country, electing their President, Member of Parliaments (MPs) and ward Councillors.

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- AS Tanzania decides in the General Election today, religious leaders have made a united call for peace, urging citizens to protect the country's long-cherished stability as both a national and spiritual duty.

[RFI] Tanzanians are voting on Wednesday in a general election that looks set to keep President Samia Suluhu Hassan in power. But with opposition leaders jailed and political freedoms under pressure, the vote could mark another step back for democracy in one of East Africa's more stable nations.

[Nyasa Times] There comes a time when silence becomes complicity -- and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has once again chosen to be complicit.

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- TANZANIA has overtaken Kenya as East Africa's most attractive investment destination, climbing three spots to ninth in Africa, according to Rand Merchant Bank's "Where to Invest in Africa 2025/2026" report.

[Daily News] Zanzibar -- THE Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) has confirmed that all preparations are complete for today's early voting exercise, which allows members of the security forces and election officials to cast their ballots ahead of tomorrow's General Election.

[Daily News] Morogoro -- The Deputy Secretary General of the Tanzania Union of Government and Health Employees (TUGHE), Mr Amani Msuya, has commended the Petroleum Upstream Regulatory Authority (PURA) after the regulator achieved 94 percent of its performance targets for the 2024/25 financial year.

[Daily News] Mwanza -- AS Tanzania heads to the polls tomorrow, livestock keepers across the country have been urged to turn out in large numbers to vote.

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- AS Tanzania prepares for tomorrow's General Election, Regional Commissioners across the country have assured residents that all necessary measures are in place to guarantee a peaceful, safe and well-organised voting process.

[IPS] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- When COVID-19 hit Tanzania in 2020, Alfred Kisena's life was torn apart. The 51-year-old teacher still remembers the night he learned that his wife, Maria, had succumbed to the virus at a hospital in Dar es Salaam. He wasn't allowed to see her in her final moments.