Leaders of main Tanzanian opposition party released

The leaders of Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema have been released on bail, a party spokesperson said on Tuesday, a day after they were detained in the southwestern town of Mbeya ahead of a youth day rally.

In a post on X, the party spokesperson said Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe and his deputy Tundu Lissu -- both former presidential candidates -- "have been returned to Dar es Salaam by police and have bailed themselves out."

AFP