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Tanzanian police detain a man accused of interfering with voting at a Stone Town polling station during the October 29, 2025, presidential elections. [AFP]
Some Tanzanians had hoped to protest on Tuesday against ongoing repression, but fear of government threats and traumatic memories of mass killings during last October's election mean unrest is unlikely.
Riot police, weapons drawn, are visible across the commercial capital Dar es Salaam after calls to protest on July 7, usually a day that celebrates the creation of the African Union of Tanganyika, the party that led Tanzania to independence in 1964.
One officer in an armoured vehicle told AFP it was simply "routine exercises", but the government recently banned all political gatherings, and has spent weeks trying to deter protesters by describing them as "criminals".
