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Tanzania police ban opposition protest

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan. [AFP]

Tanzanian police said Friday they were banning the main opposition party from holding a protest against killings and abductions of its members.

The Chadema party had called a mass rally in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam on September 23 unless recent disappearances were investigated and missing members "brought back alive or dead".

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