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Tanzanian security forces have announced the release of several members of the opposition party, Chadema and hundreds of their supporters. It comes after they were arrested during a banned youth meeting in the southwest of the country. Human rights organisations have criticised the arrests, with Amnesty International saying, opens new …

A Tanzanian court has acquitted an opposition MP who had been charged with insulting President John Magufuli. The court said it did not find any evidence to support the charge against Halima Mdee. She was charged in 2017 for reportedly saying in Swahili that “the president is talking aimlessly, he …