DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — A magistrate court in Tanzania on Tuesday ordered that an opposition leader who was charged with treason last month be brought to court in person next month after he went on ...

Prominent Tanzanian politician Tundu Lissu has been elected chairman of the main opposition party Chadema, ousting long-running leader Freeman Mbowe in an intense race. Lissu campaigned for changes in ...

Multiple death threats, arrests by security officers brandishing pistols, and a late-night race to the airport with a diplomatic escort – opposition leader Tundu Lissu’s experience of Tanzania’s ...

Tanzania opposition leader Tundu Lissu has returned to the country from self-imposed exile in Belgium, where he had lived since surviving an assassination attempt in 2017 when he was shot 16 times.

Polls on October 29 erupted into days of violent protests over claims that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had rigged the polls ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Tanzania's most prominent opposition leader appeared in court Monday to face treason charges after calling for electoral reforms ahead of October’s general election. A ...

Police have been deployed in mostly empty streets in Tanzania’s major cities on Tuesday ahead of planned protests that the ...

The European Parliament has taken an unprecedented and unanimous step against Tanzania following the country’s October 2025 elections. In a decisive vote of 539–0, with 27 abstentions, Members of the ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — The main opposition leader in Tanzania was granted permission on Monday to represent himself in his treason trial after being denied the right to meet his lawyers in private ...