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ARREST

‘Don’t vote, overthrow the dictators’

Tanzania’s opposition leader, who is again in exile, says ‘instead of telling people to vote, we should be telling them to prepare for popular revolt

  • Simon Allison
6 min read
ACT WAZALENDO

Tanzania’s opposition leader on reggae, resistance and his own resurrection

Sixteen bullets and 27 operations later, Tanzania’s main opposition leader has recovered from a brutal assassination attempt – and is now in the middle of an even bigger fight

  • Simon Mkina
4 min read
Braving it: Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s former MP with the Chadema opposition party who was shot in 2017, returns from exile to challenge President John Magufuli in elections later this year. (STR/AFP)
ACT WAZALENDO

Tanzania’s opposition finds that forming a united front is not so easy

Having missed the chance to form a coalition, a so-called ‘endorsement’ may be the next-best step

  • Simon Allison
  • Simon Mkina
3 min read