Mbaraka Islam
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/ 19 December 2005

Tension in Zanzibar as ruling party tightens control

Tanzania’s Revolutionary Party cemented its four-decade grip on power on Sunday when presidential election results confirmed victory for its candidate, Foreign Minister Jakaya Kikwete. Kikwete took 80% of the vote in Wednesday’s polls, demolishing nine challengers in the country’s third elections since the introduction of multiparty politics in 1992.