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Conflicting Reports Over Death Toll In Tanzania Protest On Day 4 https://ift.tt/y1CSV3w #Breaking News #Arusha #Chadema #DaresSalaam #Dodoma #Lissu #Mbeya #Mwanza #Suluhu #Tanzania ©November 1st, 2025 ®November 1, 2025 12:22 pm Reports on Saturday early morning in the Africa country of Tanzania, indicated that thousands of youths in the country have continued mass protest in the Tanzania capital city of Dodoma, also simultaneously in the country former capital city of Dar es Salaam which remains the country's largest city and its main economic hub, while streets in Mwanza, Mbeya, and Arusha have remained occupied by the aggrieved youths who the major opposition political party, Chadema claimed have been shot at, and over 700 of them have been killed by security operatives since the violent protest erupted in the country on Wednesday over the 2025 presidential election allegedly marred by corrupt practices, but, the Tanzania Foreign Ministry dismissed the claim, saying, the Tanzania government is not aware of any death recorded or any of the protesters killed, adding, the government has not used excessive force on the protesters, this, the United Nations, UN Human Rights Office stated on Friday that it has a credible report of at least 10 deaths recorded as a result of killing of protesters by the Tanzania security forces, and information from border communities between Tanzania and Kenya indicated that; on Thursday, October 30, in the afternoon, chaos broke out at the Namanga border checkpoint as Kenyan and Tanzanian youth threw stones at Tanzanian police, and the police responded with live ammunition and tear gas canisters, leading to a casualty of two people shot dead by police and two others, including a Kenyan police officer, were seriously injured, while violent protest continued across major cities in Tanzania, President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Chama cha Mapinduzi, CCM political party was declared winner and the electoral body announced on Saturday early morning that the President secured a re-election figure of 97.66% of the votes, which, represents 31,913,866 ballots, in the October 29, 2025 controversial presidential election boycotted by the country main opposition political party, Chadema, which the Chadema political party did by not signing the electoral code of conduct after the set deadline and the Tanzania electoral body subsequently banned the Chadema political party from participating in the general election and all by-elections till 2030, and this, is in addition to the disqualifications of challengers like Tundu Lissu of Chadema political party, the main opposition leader who remains detained since April 2025 and other serious challenger, Luhaga Mpina of ACT-Wazalendo, was disqualified on technicalities. #OsazuwaAkonedo Why Nnamdi Kanu Refuses To Enter Defence - Kingsley Kanunta Kanu https://ift.tt/2uQq7hg #Law #Biafra #Kanu #Nnamdi ©November 1st, 2025 ®November 1, 2025 6:45 am Kingsley Kanunta Kanu, the younger brother to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in an X post as reshared by Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the coordinating lawyer for the detained Biafra Republic agitation leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has given gh Court in Abuja. #OsazuwaAkonedo Tinubu Revises Self On Pardons Earlier Granted To Murderers, Kidnappers https://ift.tt/M0mDgy9 #Law #Nwike #Oniarah #Ozehekome #Sanda #Tinubu ©October 30th, 2025 ®OPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has issued a revised policy actions over the 2025 Presidential Pardons he had earlier granted to 175 persons, some of whom were convicted murderers, deadly kidnappers; which included Maryam Sanda, who had spent barely six years and eight months at the Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre after she was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging over the killing of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello in Abuja who she stabbed three times repeatedly, this, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his earlier presidential pardon granted to the 37 years old convicted and condemned murderer, Maryam Sanda, had asked her to go home free because of her children, but, following public outcry and condemnation, in the revised version of the presidential pardons signed into law on October 21, 2025 and made available to the publh was also stated to be rd Tinubu had initially made an attempt to release him. #OsazuwaAkonedo