{"id":560,"date":"2025-10-30T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=560"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:58:51","slug":"tanzania-police-fire-shots-tear-gas-at-protesters-after-chaotic-election-elections-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania police fire shots, tear gas at protesters after chaotic election | Elections News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Hundreds of people take to streets of Dar-es-Salaam after two main opposition figures barred from presidential poll.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 30 Oct 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">30 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Police have fired gunshots on the streets of Tanzania\u2019s largest city during protests after a tumultuous presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In Dar-es-Salaam, a city of more than seven million people, protesters who defied a curfew on Thursday in the Mbagala, Gongo la Mboto and Kiluvya neighbourhoods were met with tear gas and the sounds of gunfire on the day after the election.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Internet access remained down across the city, where hundreds had set polling stations alight and chanted their discontent on election day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been silent for so long,\u201d one protester shouted in a video posted to TikTok and verified by Al Jazeera. \u201cWhat have we been doing?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s election saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan\u2019s two biggest challengers excluded from the race, infuriating citizens and rights groups who have also decried an intensifying crackdown against opposition members, activists and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the internet blackout, protesters continued to organise on the Zello app, discussing possible marches on government buildings. But roads across the country, including the main road leading to Dar-es-Salaam\u2019s Julius Nyerere International Airport, were blocked, the United States embassy said in a security alert.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan took office in 2021 when her predecessor John Magufuli died in office and has faced rising criticism for what the United Nations has called a pattern of \u201cescalating\u201d attacks, disappearances and torture of critics.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest election this month in Africa to fuel deep-seated anger among citizens after longtime leaders in the Ivory Coast and Cameroon also sought to cling onto power.<\/p>\n<p>Only minor opposition figures were eligible to compete against Hassan in the election after the Independent National Electoral Commission disqualified Tanzania\u2019s main opposition party, Chadema, in April for refusing to sign an electoral code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The move came days after party leader Tundu Lissu was arrested at a rally where he called for electoral reforms and was charged with treason.<\/p>\n<p>The commission also barred Luhaga Mpina, the candidate for the second largest opposition party, ACT-Wazalendo, after an objection from the attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Local and international watchdogs have sounded alarms over election-related violence and repression for months.<\/p>\n<p>In June, a panel of nine UN experts called the government\u2019s actions \u201cunacceptable\u201d and said they had tallied more than 200 disappearances since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>And in September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had documented at least 10 recent instances of politically motivated assault, harassment, abduction and torture as well as \u201cextensive restrictions\u201d on media and civil society organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Nomathamsanqa Masiko-Mpaka, HRW\u2019s Africa researcher, warned at the time that Tanzania\u2019s October elections were at \u201cgreat risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe authorities need to stop muzzling dissenting voices and the media and instead engage in meaningful reforms to ensure free, fair and credible elections,\u201d Masiko-Mpaka added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people take to streets of Dar-es-Salaam after two main opposition figures barred from presidential poll. 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