Tanzania: Hundreds feared dead in post-election violence
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Diplomats in Tanzania say there's credible evidence at least five-hundred people have been killed in days of clashes between protesters and security forces over disputed election results. The protests broke out after the President's main challengers were excluded from the ballot. A senior opposition politician told the BBC that police and foreign mercenaries were killing "with impunity". Tanzania's foreign minister has denied reports of widespread killings.
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| 0:41.6 | Hello, I'm Paul Moss, and we're recording this edition in the early hours of Saturday, 1st of November. |
| 0:48.3 | Diplomats say there's credible evidence that hundreds of people have been killed during post-election violence in Tanzania, |
| 0:55.4 | an allegation the government denies. U.S. judges have ordered the Trump administration to |
| 1:00.8 | continue funding a program which feeds millions of poor Americans, despite the government's |
| 1:06.1 | shutdown. Also in this podcast, |
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| 1:29.8 | There was a time when Tanzania was seen as a beacon of relative stability in East Africa, |
| 1:35.9 | indeed on the continent as a whole. While other countries succumbed to bitter ethnic conflict, |
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