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Tanzania polls open with opposition excluded

A voter casts her ballot while others queue at the Maundi voting centre in Stone Town on October 29, 2025, during Tanzania's presidential elections.[AFP]

Polls opened on Wednesday in Tanzania elections in which the main challengers were either jailed or barred from running, with rights groups decrying a "wave of terror".

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