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| Tanzania''s President Samia Suluhu Hassan wins re-election by 97.66%, UN rights office concerned about protesters killed | |
| 2025-11-02 | |
The final result, declaring Hassan the winner three days after polls closed, confirms what many had anticipated in an election where her main rivals were disqualified or imprisoned months earlier. The outcome delivers her a first elected term after she initially ascended to the presidency in 2021 following the death of her predecessor, John Magufuli. ELECTION MARRED BY BOYCOTTS AND EMPTY POLLING STATIONS International observers noted an extremely low voter turnout, with reports of largely empty ballot boxes. The credibility of the process was further undermined when demonstrators, in acts of defiance, were filmed stealing ballot boxes and scattering ballots. The election took place without the participation of the country's two main opposition parties, whose leaders were barred from the race. United Nations rights office alarmed by killings in Tanzania protests [AFRICANEWS] The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... rights office said on Friday it was alarmed by the deaths and injuries that have occurred in the ongoing election-related protests in Tanzania. They began on Wednesday as voting took place, with demonstrators angry at the exclusion of the two main challengers to President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The main opposition party claims that about 700 people were killed in protests across the country, which the government has referred to as ''isolated incidents''. Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Seif Magango, said it has received reports from ''credible sources'' that at least 10 people have died. ''We call on the security forces to refrain from using unnecessary or disproportionate force, including lethal weapons, against protesters, and to make every effort to de-escalate tensions,'' he said, adding that protesters should demonstrate peacefully. Amnesty International, meanwhile, said it had received information that at least 100 people had been killed. An overnight curfew imposed on Wednesday remains in place in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, and internet access has been disrupted. Magango urged the authorities in Tanzania to uphold its ''obligations under international human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... law. ''They must promptly reinstate access to the internet and facilitate citizens' full enjoyment of their rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly,'' he said. | |
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