Tanzania Elections

Zanzibar has formally annulled October's elections meaning a rerun appears more likely, despite continued negotiations to strike a political deal on Tanzania's semi-autonomous islands.

Tanzania's new leader John Pombe Magufuli rose from humble beginnings to win the presidency of east Africa's most populous nation in the country's hardest ever fought elections.

Tanzania's ruling party candidate, John Magufuli, was declared winner on Thursday of a presidential election, after the national electoral body dismissed opposition complaints about the process and a demand for a recount.

Votes were being counted today in what is expected to be Tanzania's tightest election race ever, with the governing party facing the first major challenge to its dominance in decades.

Tanzania votes in presidential and general elections today, in what is expected to be the tightest race in the history of East Africa's most populous country.

A demonstrator was shot dead and two others wounded in southern Burundi on Monday, a local official and witness said, in one of the first confirmed reports of civil unrest erupting outside the capital Bujumbura.

Their limbs hacked off and babies and children abducted or killed, albinos in Tanzania live in fear of another horrific spate of attacks against them ahead of elections in October.

Zimbabwe's elections received cautious approval on Friday from two African observer missions despite allegations by the main challenger to President Robert Mugabe and a local monitoring group that the vote was heavily rigged.

Zanzibar has formally annulled October's elections meaning a rerun appears more likely, despite continued negotiations to strike a political deal on Tanzania's semi-autonomous islands.

Tanzania's new leader John Pombe Magufuli rose from humble beginnings to win the presidency of east Africa's most populous nation in the country's hardest ever fought elections.

Tanzania's ruling party candidate, John Magufuli, was declared winner on Thursday of a presidential election, after the national electoral body dismissed opposition complaints about the process and a demand for a recount.

Votes were being counted today in what is expected to be Tanzania's tightest election race ever, with the governing party facing the first major challenge to its dominance in decades.

Tanzania votes in presidential and general elections today, in what is expected to be the tightest race in the history of East Africa's most populous country.

A demonstrator was shot dead and two others wounded in southern Burundi on Monday, a local official and witness said, in one of the first confirmed reports of civil unrest erupting outside the capital Bujumbura.

Their limbs hacked off and babies and children abducted or killed, albinos in Tanzania live in fear of another horrific spate of attacks against them ahead of elections in October.

Zimbabwe's elections received cautious approval on Friday from two African observer missions despite allegations by the main challenger to President Robert Mugabe and a local monitoring group that the vote was heavily rigged.