Opposition Chadema party Chair Freeman Mbowe Vice-Chair Tundu Lissu and Secretary-General John Mnyika were among 500 activists arrested as they sought to attend a rally in Mbeya south-west Tanzania on 11 August...
Makonda has faced numerous accusations related to his authoritarian crackdowns of dissent and alleged involvement in the attempted assassination of opposition politician Tundu Lissu and the disappearance of journalists...
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Police authorities said the arrests which included Tundu Lissu the deputy leader of the opposition Chadema party and its chair Freeman Mbowe were needed to avert the risk of violence...
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She restored civic rights unbanning public rallies and loosening media controls met Tundu Lissu the Chadema leader whom undercover agents attempted to assassinate and proposed an inclusive 'committee of experts' to guide the constitutional review process (Dispatches 1/2/23 Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven years)...
Tundu Lissu his number two had been sceptical about the entente from the beginning...
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The arrest and brief detention of opposition leader Tundu Lissu accused of holding an illegal gathering surprised those who thought that President Samia Suluhu Hassan had consolidated power and was steadily restoring democratic freedoms...
Lissu the former Chadema party leader who returned to Tanzania in January after several years of recovering in Belgium from an assassination attempt by former President John Magufuli's security services has been holding political rallies across the country (Dispatches 1/2/23 Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven years)...
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In mid-February she met Chadema leader Tundu Lissu in Brussels where he was in self-imposed exile after nearly being assassinated in a machine-gun attack widely believed to have been committed by members of Tanzanian intelligence five years ago (Dispatches 1/2/23 Tundu Lissu's return prompts first opposition rallies for seven years)...
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The opposition Chadema party celebrated Tundu Lissu's return to Tanzania after five years in effective exile in Belgium with its first mass campaign rally since 2016 weeks after President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted the ban on political gatherings imposed by her predecessor John Magufuli in 2016 (Dispatches 21/3/22 Exiles return and investors take a look a year after Magufuli's death)...
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On a European tour she met Tundu Lissu former MP and Chadema chief legal officer who went into exile in Belgium after he was shot multiple times while campaigning ahead of the national elections in 2020 in which Magufuli claimed a landslide victory (Dispatches 7/ 3/22 Freeing of opposition leader Mbowe reopens political arena)...
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Tundu Lissu Vice-President of the opposition Chadema party is to return to Tanzania from exile in Belgium a week after Chadema leader Freeman Mbowe was released from prison and terror charges against him were dropped...
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Two weeks ago in another step towards restoring the rights of opposition parties she met Mbowe's predecessor Tundu Lissu in Brussels...
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At the meeting Kabwe urged President Samia Suluhu to look at 'using all legal channels' to have the charges against the Chadema leader dropped phraseology that prompted an angry riposte from Chadema vice chair Tundu Lissu who demanded that the government 'simply scrap the charges without any conditions whatsoever'...
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