Tanzania: Killings, Crackdown Follow Disputed Elections

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A Tanzanian police water cannon shoots water at opposition party supporters during a protest in Kigoma, Tanzania, on October 30, 2025, a day after Tanzania's presidential and legislative elections. © 2025 Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The authorities in Tanzania responded to widespread protests following the October 29 elections with lethal force and other abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 1, Tanzania’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission, announced that the incumbent president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, won the…

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