Some people waited 12 hours in line to vote in presidential and legislative polls, billed as the toughest yet for the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) party, in power since Namibia’s 1990 independence from South africa.
The East African country has been deluged by heavy rains in past days, with the government issuing a national disaster alert after reports of flooding and landslides.
President William Ruto has jetted out of the country to champion trade, security, and innovation at the 24th Ordinary Summit of the East African Heads of State in Arusha, Tanzania.
Chadema said in a statement that a candidate, George Juma Mohamed, was shot dead by police after being attacked by ruling party supporters at his home in Mkese in central Tanzania late Tuesday.
The current force is under-staffed and under-equipped as it takes on Haiti’s powerful, well-armed gangs, and shifting to a formal UN mission would provide more money, personnel and logistical support, said Dorothy Shea, the deputy US ambassador to the United Nations.
Besigye, 68, was brought to the General Court Martial in handcuffs and under a heavily armed military escort, his lawyer Erias Lukwago told AFP.
Chama kikuu cha upinzani nchini Tanzania, Chadema, kimeilalamikia mamlaka nchini humo kwamba wagombea wake wengi wamekataliwa “kwa njia isiyo ya haki” kushiriki katika uchaguzi wa serikali za mitaa unaotarajiwa kufanyika wiki ijayo.
Mamlaka ya Uganda, ambayo ilisema kuwa zinachunguza taarifa za kupotea kwa Besigye, zimekuwa zikifanya ukandamizaji dhidi ya upinzani katika miezi ya hivi karibuni, kwa kuwakamata viongozi mashuhuri na kuwashtaki wanachama wa vyama vya upinzani.
Police opened fire in both encounters, killing 10, and then chased down those who fled with the help of self-defense groups, formed by residents opposed to the gangs and their violent rule over swaths of the country.
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, popularly known as “Irro”, won the election with 63.92 percent of the vote, well ahead of outgoing president Muse Bihi (34.81 percent) and Social Justice Party (UCID) leader Faysal Ali Warabe (0.74 percent), election commission chairman Muse Hassan Yusuf announced on Tuesday.
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