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Former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu and at least 500 youth supporters among those detained.
Police in Tanzania have detained opposition leaders and rounded up several hundred supporters as they halted a planned rally.
Leaders of the opposition Chadema party, including former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu, were arrested on Monday in the southwestern city of Mbeya, a party official announced on X. The police had previously banned the rally, claiming that violence was planned.
The Tanzanian police action comes amid a wave of protests that has swept other parts of sub-Saharan Africa…
