Tanzania opposition leaders and supporters arrested in crackdown

Senior Chadema party figures including vice-chair detained as well as about 400 people heading to youth gatheringPolice in Tanzania have arrested leaders of the country’s main opposition party and hundreds of its supporters in a crackdown that started at the weekend.Police detained Tundu Lissu, the vice-chair of the Chadema party and a former presidential candidate, as well as the party’s secretary general, John Mnyika, before a gathering in the country’s south-west. Continue r