The chilling spate of disappearances haunting Tanzania's election [View all]

[RandySF]

A prominent regime insider-turned-critic of Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan disappeared from his Dar es Salaam home this month, leaving only a pool of blood on the doorstep.

The country’s main opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, has been jailed and is facing treason charges that carry the death penalty.

Lissu’s Chadema party, the main opposition, has in effect been barred.

Dozens of other critics of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party, Tanzania’s long-ruling behemoth, have either exiled themselves or vanished in a chilling spate of abductions blamed by human rights groups on state security services.




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