Tough times for Tanzania’s dissenting voices in 2020Tanzanian President John Magufuli joins a clean-up event outside the State House in Dar es Salaam on December 9, 2015. This comes against the backdrop of a vicious, brutal, sometime fatal clampdown on individuals thought to be too critical to Dar es Salaam. At the end of the year, at least 12 opposition politicians, businessmen thought to lean towards the opposition and civil society leading voices were abducted. The latest, Tito Magoti, was abducted on December 20 as he got off a boda boda to enter a mobile phones shop. We would like to inform the public that he was not and there are no incidents of kidnapping in Dar es Salaam,” read a statement by Dar es Salaam Special Zone Commander Lazaro Mambosasa.

Source: Standard Digital December 29, 2019 08:48 UTC