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00:00Tanzania's Communications Authority is one of protesters' targets.
00:06An internet blackout being part of a crackdown on widespread unrest
00:10following the election win of President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
00:14Rights groups say there have been deaths, but they're still trying to verify how many.
00:19Police are responding to the protests with tear gas and live bullets.
00:25We are urging them to exercise restraint and facilitate the right to protest in Tanzania.
00:33The main opposition party, meanwhile, says hundreds have been killed,
00:37an allegation denied by the government.
00:39None of the excessive force has been used.
00:42And the country cannot use excessive force against its own citizens, for sure.
00:48President Hassan has officially won a second term with 98 per cent of the vote
00:53after opposition candidates were jailed and banned.
00:56She was praised for easing repression after taking office in 2021, but times have changed.
01:02In the run-up to the vote, rights groups say she waged an unprecedented crackdown on opponents,
01:08using extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and arbitrary arrests.
01:13Landslides of this magnitude are rare in East Africa, save for Paul Kagami's Rwanda.
01:18But Hassan's party has dominated Tanzanian politics since independence,
01:23even after the introduction of other parties in 1992.
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