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A Tanzanian commission investigating deadly unrest following the October 2025 general election has recommended national reconciliation, criminal investigations and fast-tracking a new Constitution by 2028. Photo: Wainaina Mburu

Tanzania’s post-election violence raises doubts over credibility of 2025 polls

Authorities have not released an official death toll, but unconfirmed reports suggest the number of fatalities could exceed 1 000

Tanzania’s President Samia Hassan

Tanzania’s political parties hold final campaign rallies ahead of elections

Tanzanian political parties are winding up their bids to win over the 37.6 million people expected to vote on Wednesday

Politics will shape your tomorrow, whether you participate or not. You can either shape it consciously or be shaped by it painfully. The choice is between vigilance and victimhood.

Security tight in Tanzania ahead of Wednesday’s elections

Tanzanians are using social media to call for mass demonstrations before Wednesday’s poll

Tanzanian presidential hopeful Luhaga Mpina

Tanzania’s court rules against Mpina’s presidential bid

He has vowed to continue his legal fight and his party is still campaigning for the election in two weeks’ time

Luhaga Mpina of the Alliance for Change and Transparency Wazalendo party

Tanzania’s high court to decide on Luhaga Mpina’s presidential bid

Mpina filed an appeal last month against his removal from the race by the Independent National Electoral Commission

Tanzania’s President Samia Hassan

Tanzanians go to the polls with unresolved constitutional reforms

Government critics abducted, the main opposition leader detained and the presidential candidate for the second largest opposition party disqualified indicate a government…

(Alinanuswe Mwanguku/AFP)

Road to Tanzania’s presidential election paved with blood and fear

In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government

When going home is a risky gamble

Opposition leaders find it hard to fight dictators from abroad, but may place their families in danger when returning home

‘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

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

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)

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

Bobi Wine addresses supporters outside his recording studio on October 31, 2019 in Kampala, Uganda. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)

Bobi Wine presents his presidential credentials

The Ugandan opposition leader believes he is best-placed to lead an opposition coalition