The electoral body on Thursday announced through state television that President Hassan had taken an early lead, garnering 96.99% of the votes in 8 out of 272 constituencies tallied early Thursday
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00:00The aftermath of two days of protests in Tanzania as opposition parties challenged Wednesday's presidential election.
00:08Turnout was low, but unrest soon broke out, with demonstrators setting fire to a bus and petrol station and vandalizing police stations and polling centers.
00:19Two people died.
00:21The government responded by shutting down the Internet, imposing a curfew and deploying the military to the streets.
00:27Main opposition leader Tundu Lisu was imprisoned before the poll, charged with treason for calling for electoral reform.
00:36Luhaga Mpina, the presidential candidate for the second largest opposition party, was barred from running.
00:43On Thursday, the country's electoral commission declared that President Samia Suluhu Hassan's ruling CCM party had taken an early lead,
00:51with just under 97 percent of the vote in a handful of constituencies.
00:56Members of the European Parliament have said the vote was neither fair nor free,
01:01and urged democratic partners to stand firm in the defense of democracy and human rights.
01:07A win for Hassan would extend the CCM's lengthy rule.
01:10A version of the party has held power in the country since 1961.
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