The trial has added to rising concerns across East Africa about threats to democracy.

The trial has added to rising concerns across East Africa about threats to democracy.
Trade dispute between the southeast African neighbours left Malawian fruit sellers struggling for produce and income.
A treason charge and the exclusion of the main opposition draw attention before October polls in Tanzania.
In South Africa alone, funding cuts could lead to 500,000 deaths in 10 years, experts warn.
A Maasai human rights lawyer fights to stop the evictions of his people from their homelands in Tanzania.
From 2020-2024, fish production dropped 20% in the world’s longest freshwater lake serving Tanzania and its neighbours.
Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.
Rescue workers continue to search for survivors two days after a 4-storey building collapsed in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
Leaders arrested following police chief’s warning of tough measures to block protest.
Body of Ali Mohamed Kibao, who was removed from a bus by armed men, found with signs he had been beaten, Chadema says.
Former presidential candidate Tundu Lissu and at least 500 youth supporters among those detained.
Biodiversity preservation in conservation areas does not require the forced relocation of Indigenous communities.
Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
Seeking to support conservation and tourism, Tanzania has been clearing people from ancestral lands.