Young people have taken to the streets to protest restricted election choices and harassment of opposition leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hundreds of demonstrators have squared off with police in Tanzania\u2019s commercial capital for a third day of protests, following a disputed and chaotic election, to demand the national electoral body stop announcing electoral results.<\/p>\n The latest developments on Friday came as the government has deployed the military onto the streets and enforced an internet shutdown. On Thursday, in Dar-es-Salaam, a city of more than seven million people, protesters who defied a curfew in the Mbagala, Gongo la Mboto and Kiluvya neighbourhoods were met with tear gas and the sounds of gunfire.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Chaos erupted on Wednesday afternoon as young people took to the streets to protest the restricted election choices and harassment of opposition leaders. Several vehicles, a petrol station, and police stations were set ablaze by protesters.<\/p>\n Amnesty International has reported the deaths of at least two people this week.<\/p>\n State television was broadcasting the mainland results of Wednesday\u2019s vote in which the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, which has governed Tanzania since independence in 1961, was seeking to extend its time in power.<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s election saw President Samia Suluhu Hassan\u2019s\u00a0two biggest challengers excluded from the race, infuriating citizens and rights groups that have also decried an intensifying crackdown against opposition members, activists and journalists.<\/p>\n 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 It\u2019s the latest election this month in Africa to stir deep-seated anger among citizens after longtime leaders in the Ivory Coast and Cameroon also sought to cling on to power.<\/p>\n Only minor opposition figures were eligible to compete against Hassan in the election after the Independent National Electoral Commission\u00a0disqualified\u00a0Tanzania\u2019s main opposition party, Chadema, in April for refusing to sign an electoral code of conduct.<\/p>\n The move came days after party leader Tundu Lissu was arrested at a rally where he called for electoral reforms and\u00a0was charged with treason.<\/p>\n 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 Local and international watchdogs have sounded alarms over election-related violence and repression for months.<\/p>\n 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 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 Nomathamsanqa Masiko-Mpaka, HRW\u2019s South Africa researcher, warned at the time that Tanzania\u2019s October elections were at \u201cgreat risk\u201d.<\/p>\n \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 The ruling CCM retained the presidential seat in the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, which remained calm Friday with a heavy military presence.<\/p>\n The electoral commission in Zanzibar said Thursday the incumbent, President Hussein Mwinyi, had won 78.8% of the votes.<\/p>\n The opposition said there was \u201cmassive fraud\u201d in Zanzibar\u2019s results and announced it would reveal its next steps.<\/p>\n The protests have spread across the country, and the government has postponed the reopening of colleges and universities, which had been set for next Monday.<\/p>\n The army chief, Jacob John Mkunda, condemned the violence and said on Thursday that the military would work with other security agencies to contain the situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Young people have taken to the streets to protest restricted election choices and harassment of opposition leaders. Hundreds of demonstrators have squared off with police in Tanzania\u2019s commercial capital for a third day of protests, following a disputed and chaotic election, to demand the national electoral body stop announcing electoral results. 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