Samia crackdown intensifies as Lissu charged with Treason over election remarks
On Thursday, a Tanzanian court charged opposition leader Tundu Lissu with treason after he told the public to delay elections that are planned for later this year. Lissu, who leads the country’s largest opposition party CHADEMA and was also the runner-up in the 2020 presidential election, had been arrested a day earlier in the Ruvuma