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About 700 killed in Tanzania election protests, opposition says
About 700 people have been killed during three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party has said.
Protests erupted on election day on Wednesday over what demonstrators said was the stifling of the opposition after the exclusion of key candidates from the presidential ballot.
John Kitoka, a spokesperson for the Chadema opposition party, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that hundreds of people had been killedsince then.
“As we speak, the figure for deaths in Dar [es Salaam] is around 350 and for Mwanza it is 200-plus. Added to figures from other places around the country, the overall figure is around 700,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/31/tanzania-election-protests-opposition