Tanzania : President Samia Suluhu Hassan Re-elected

Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has won a landslide victory in the country’s disputed election with more than 97% of the votes. The results announced by the Tanzania’s Electoral Commission, hand President Hassan, who took power in 2021 after the death in office of her predecessor, a new five-year term to govern a country of 68 million people. After the declaration, President Hassan appeared at an event in the administrative capital, Dodoma, to receive the winner's certificate from electoral authorities. Speaking after the reception, President Hassan said, the result showed Tanzanians voted overwhelmingly for a female leader. After the election, “It’s time to unite our country and not destroy what we’ve built over more than six decades,” she said. “We will take all actions and involve all security agencies to ensure the country is peaceful.”
A spokesman for the main opposition party Chadema, which was barred from taking part in the election, slammed Hassan’s victory as a “mockery of the democratic process”, “We are calling for the intervention by a credible body to oversee another fresh election,” John Kitoka told AFP news agency. Chadema told AFP on Friday that “about 700” people had been killed, based on figures gathered from a network checking hospitals and health clinics. On Saturday, Kitoka said the party’s monitors had reported “no less than 800 people” were killed by security forces in protests this week.
African Union Chair, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf congratulated President Hassan in a statement o...