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Tanzania arrests opposition leaders to thwart protests

By Reuters Tanzanian police arrested three opposition leaders again on Monday, their party and police said, to stop anti-government protests in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam. The main opposition party CHADEMA’s chairman Freeman Mbowe was detained on the street, while his deputy Tundu Lissu was taken from his home amid plans to demonstrate against alleged killings and abductions of government critics CHADEMA said later on Monday that police arrested another senior official and an unspecified number of party members and staff and guards at two of their offices in Dar es Salaam. Police also took into custody three journalists covering the protests, according to their employers Mwananchi Communications Ltd and East Africa TV. One of its journalists was later released, […] The post Tanzania arrests opposition leaders to thwart protests first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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