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Regional observers now dismiss Tanzania polls in unflattering accounts

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan was announced winner and sworn in.[AFP]

The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) electoral observation mission that monitored presidential elections in Tanzania has in its preliminary report indicated that voters did not freely express their democratic will in most areas of the country.

In some polling stations, the SADC monitors observed multiple orderly stacked ballots in the ballot boxes during voting.

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