Pressure on Samia to stop repression, account for torture

President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania appears determined to frustrate opposition leaders through trumped-up charges, their arbitrary arrests and the torture of civil society activists.

Political analysts think her aim is to stifle chances of the opposition mounting a credible challenge to her and the ruling CCM party’s grasp on power, akin to what Kenya's former ruling party Kanu used to do during the single-party era.