Unidentified people abducted, beat and seriously injured a senior Tanzanian opposition party official before dumping her in a forest, her party said on Sunday, a month after a similar abduction and murder of another of its party leaders. Chadema, the leading opposition party, said its women's wing publicity secretary, Aisha Machano, was abducted in Kibiti town in the eastern part of the country while she was on official duties. Machano is the second senior opposition official to be abducted and tortured within two months. Kibao's body was later found on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam with signs he had been beaten and acid had been poured on his face, his party said then. In September, Chadema organised demonstrations against Kibao's death and other reported abductions and disappearances of individuals and opposition party officials in Dar es Salaam, which police thwarted.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 21, 2024 12:49 UTC