Tanzania president vows to investigate vote violence, acknowledges deaths

Record ID: 2277583

  • Title: Tanzania president vows to investigate vote violence, acknowledges deaths
  • Date: 14th November 2025
  • Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (NOVEMBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE GENEVA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND SERVICES, VINCENT SUBILIA, SAYING: “Whatever a tariff is, even 1% is 1% too much, that's for sure. But in the current circumstances and in light of the tariffs that have been imposed to our first trading partner, i.e. the EU, I believe th
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  • Keywords: address chadema court election opposition parliament politics tanzania
  • Location: DODOMA, TANZANIA
  • City: DODOMA, TANZANIA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Topics: Africa,Lawmaking,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA003208814112025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:      Tanzania's president promised on Friday to investigate violence during last month's elections and offered condolences to bereaved families, in her most public acknowledgement to date of the impact of the clashes.
         Samia Suluhu Hassan said the state would set up a commission and work towards "reconciliation and peace."   
         There was no immediate reaction from the main opposition party, CHADEMA, which has said security forces killed more than 1,000 people.
         The U.N. said this week it believes hundreds were killed during the protests, which were driven by the exclusion of the two leading opposition candidates and what activists called a crackdown on dissent - charges dismissed by the government.
         In her first address to parliament since winning the October 29 election with almost 98% of the vote, Hassan called for a moment's silence and told lawmakers: "I extend my condolences to all families who lost their loved ones."
    "The government has taken the step of establishing an inquiry commission to investigate what happened, so that we may know the root cause of the problem," she added, without saying who was behind the violence.
         The government has dismissed opposition statements on deaths and injuries as exaggerated, but not given its own estimates of the impact of the turmoil which plunged the East African country into its biggest political crisis in decades.
    (Production: Edwin Waita)
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