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Tundu Lissu plans to return to Tanzania to fight President John Magufuli’s ‘reign of terror’ after spending a year and a half in Kenya and Belgium recovering from a near-fatal attack. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS

Shot 16 times, but still defiant

Tundu Lissu is a Tanzanian MP and a member of Chadema, the main opposition party. In September 2017, two gunmen attacked him outside his house

  • Simon Allison
4 min read
Castro TV series charts 638 assassination attempts
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS

Castro TV series charts 638 assassination attempts

Illness has forced him from public view, but Fidel Castro is back via a television series that celebrates his escape from 638 assassination plots.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read