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Tanzania arrests leader of main opposition party

Freeman Mbowe (Centre), chairman of Chadema, Tanzania's main opposition party, arrives at Kisutu Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania March 10, 2020. [Reuters]

Tanzania's main opposition party has said its leader together with ten other party figures had been arrested, in what it called proof that President Samia Suluhu Hassan was persisting with the authoritarianism of her late predecessor John Magufuli.

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