TANZANIA: First Female Re-Elected President With 98% Illegitimate Votes October 29. 1000 Protesters Killed By Police Accused Of Secretly Dumping The Bodies During 5-day Internet And Power Blackout.

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DW News published November 1, 2025: Tanzania's Hassan declared winner in disputed vote. Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the country's presidential election with nearly 97.66% of the votes, according to the electoral commission's results released on Sarturday.

Firstpost published November 5, 2025: Tanzania Election Violence: Authorities "Secretly Dumping Protesters Bodies". Tanzania faces global outrage after the opposition accuses security forces of "secretly dumping the bodies" of protesters killed during post-election violence. Following the disputed presidential polls on October 29, demonstrations erupted across Dar es Salaam and other cities over alleged vote rigging. Opposition party CHADEMA claims more than 800 people were killed, while President Samia Suluhu Hassan blames foreign interference. Human Rights Watch condemned the deaths during protests after reported excessive use of force and internet blackouts, urging accountability. Observers from the Southern African Development Community also stated the election fell short of democratic standards, intensifying pressure on the Tanzanian government.

Firstpost published November 11, 2025: Tanzania Election Violence Sparks Outrage as Church, Aid Groups Speak Out. Tanzania is reeling from deadly post-election violence that has left hundreds, possibly thousands, dead. At a prayer service in Dar es Salaam, Archbishop Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa’ichi condemned the killings, calling them a “disgrace before God” and warning that the punishment for protest cannot be death. President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s landslide 98% victory has been dismissed by the opposition as a “sham,” amid reports of ballot tampering and intimidation. Rights groups accuse security forces of firing on peaceful demonstrators, while internet blackouts have obscured the true scale of the crackdown. The African Union says the polls failed democratic standards. With opposition leaders facing treason charges and the Church demanding justice, Tanzania now stands at a critical crossroads between accountability and repression.

The Kenyan Historian published November 3, 2025: “The Making of a Dictator: How Samia Suluhu Took Control of Tanzania”. When Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan became president in 2021, she was hailed as a reformer — soft-spoken, calm, and promising change after Magufuli’s hardline rule. But four years later, her government stands accused of tightening control over elections, the media, and opposition parties. In this episode of I, The Kenyan Historian, breaksdown the playbook behind her rise — and how power in Tanzania has become more concentrated than ever.

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Tanzania politicians in shock as cabal takes over after massacre written by Staff

Wednesday November 12, 2025

Gruesome images of dead Tanzanians have flooded the internet in the wake of the October 29 elections that triggered widespread protests over government repression.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan officially won with 98 percent of the vote, but key opposition leaders were jailed or disqualified.

The opposition says more than 1,000 were killed as security forces crushed the protests under cover of a five-day internet blackout.

Two weeks on, the government has yet to give any casualty numbers.

"There are... disturbing reports that security forces have been seen removing bodies from streets and hospitals and taking them to undisclosed locations in an apparent attempt to conceal evidence," UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday.

A senior official in the Tanzanian government who said they were horrified by the events of the past fortnight, agreed to talk to AFP.

The official said they would end up dead if their name was published, but provided AFP with coordinates for two suspected sites of mass graves near Dar es Salaam -- at Kondo and Mabwepande. These could not be independently verified, however.

"People in the government are in shock... there's disbelief," said the official.

"Nobody has the guts to talk... that's the sad part of it. But people do whisper," they said.

AFP has spoken to multiple eye-witnesses who describe seeing people shot at point-blank range by police and unidentified armed men.

Prior to the election, the Tanganyika Law Society had confirmed 83 abductions under Hassan's rule, but said reported disappearances increased significantly in the final days of the campaign.

Some were high-profile, like former government spokesman and ambassador Humphrey Polepole, reported missing from his blood-stained home on October 6 after resigning in a letter that criticised Hassan's government.

Others were unknown individuals in small villages, seemingly targeted for minor online posts.

"Why are you abducting a 20-year-old kid just because they criticised you? You're the president, for crying out loud!" said the government official.

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ABC News

Tanzania President Hassan wins disputed election with more than 97% of vote, official results show

written by Rodney Muhumuza, Associated Press reported from Kampala, Uganda.

Friday October 31, 2025

DODOMA, Tanzania -- Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the country’s disputed election with more than 97% of the vote, according to official results announced early Saturday, in a rare landslide victory in the region.

The result is likely to amplify the concerns of critics, opposition groups and others who said the election in Tanzania was not a contest but a coronation after Hassan's two main rivals were barred or prevented from running. She faced 16 candidates from smaller parties.

The Oct. 29 election was marred by violence as demonstrators took to the streets of major cities to protest the vote and stop the counting of votes. The military has been deployed to help police quell riots. Internet connectivity has been on and off in the East African nation, disrupting travel and other activities.

The protests have spread across Tanzania, and the government has postponed the reopening of universities, which had been set for Oct. 3.

Tanzanian authorities have not said how many people have been killed or injured in the violence. A spokesman for the U.N. human rights office, Seif Magango, on Friday told a U.N. briefing in Geneva by video from Kenya that credible reports of 10 deaths were reported in the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam, alongside Shinyanga and Morogoro towns.

Tundu Lissu, leader of the Chadema opposition group, has been jailed for months, charged with treason after he called for electoral reforms that he said were a prerequisite for free and fair elections. Another opposition figure, Luhaga Mpina of the ACT-Wazalendo group, was barred from running.

At stake for the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or CCM, party was its decades-long grip on power amid the rise of charismatic opposition figures who hoped to lead the country toward political change.

Still, a landslide victory is unheard of in the region. Only President Paul Kagame, the authoritarian leader of Rwanda, regularly wins by a landslide.

Rights groups including Amnesty International cited a pattern of enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings in Tanzania ahead of the polls.

In June, a United Nations panel of human rights experts cited more than 200 cases of enforced disappearance since 2019, saying they were “alarmed by reports of a pattern of repression” ahead of elections.

Hassan oversaw "an unprecedented crackdown on political opponents,” the International Crisis Group said in its most recent analysis. “The government has curbed freedom of expression, ranging from a ban on X and restrictions on the Tanzanian digital platform JamiiForums to silencing critical voices through intimidation or arrest.”

The political maneuvering by Tanzanian authorities is remarkable even in a country where single-party rule has been the norm since the advent of multi-party politics in 1992.

Government critics point out that previous leaders tolerated opposition while maintaining a firm grip on power, whereas Hassan is accused of leading with an authoritarian style that defies youth-led democracy movements elsewhere in the region.

But Tanzania is different, an outlier in the region.

A version of the governing CCM party, which maintains ties with the Communist Party of China, has ruled Tanzania since its independence from Britain in 1961, a streak that Hassan extends with her victory.

CCM is fused with the state, effectively in charge of the security apparatus and structured in such a way that new leaders emerge every five or 10 years. Hassan herself was able to rise to the presidency as vice president without incident when her predecessor, John Pombe Magufuli, died suddenly not long after the start of his second term.

The orderly transition sustained Tanzania’s reputation as an oasis of political stability and relative peace, a major reason for CCM’s considerable support across the country, especially among rural voters.