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Bumpy road for opposition candidate Lissu as race for Tanzania’s top job hots up

The last time opposition leader Tundu Lissu (pictured) left Tanzania, he was unconscious, aboard a medical flight to Nairobi. Unidentified gunmen had fired 16 bullets into his body outside his residence in Dodoma, in September 2017. He spent nearly three years in exile, first in Kenya, and then in Belgium. He underwent some 20 surgeries.

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