‘Hundreds useless’ in Tanzania post-election violence, says Opposition

Around 700 folks have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the primary Opposition get together mentioned on Friday (October 31, 2025), with protesters nonetheless on the streets within the midst of an web blackout.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan had sought to cement her place and silence critics in her get together with an emphatic win in Wednesday’s election, through which her most important challengers had been both jailed or barred from standing.

But the vote descended into chaos as crowds took to the streets of Dar es Salaam and different cities, tearing down her posters and attacking police and polling stations, resulting in an web shutdown and curfew.

With international journalists largely banned from protecting the election and a communications blackout coming into its third day, data from the bottom has been scarce.

The most important Opposition get together, Chadema, mentioned clashes continued between protesters and safety forces within the industrial hub on Friday.

“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,” Chadema spokesman John Kitoka advised AFP.

“The death toll could be much higher,” he warned, saying killings might be taking place in the course of the nighttime curfew.

A safety supply advised AFP they had been listening to studies of greater than 500 useless, “maybe 700-800 in the whole country”.

“We are talking hundreds of deaths,” a diplomatic supply advised AFP.

The United Nations mentioned “credible reports” indicated 10 useless, within the first data launched by a world physique, whereas Amnesty International mentioned it had data of at the very least 100 killed.

Multiple hospitals and well being clinics had been too afraid to speak on to AFP.

Ms. Hassan had but to touch upon the unrest and native information websites had not been up to date since Wednesday.

The solely official assertion got here from military chief Jacob Mkunda late on Thursday (October 30, 2025) who known as the protesters “criminals”.