NAIROBI: Around 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the midst of an Internet blackout. President Samia Suluhu Hassan had sought to cement her position and silence critics in her party with an emphatic win in Wednesday’s election, in which her main challengers were either jailed or barred from standing.

Government critics abducted, killed or arrested in run-up to vote as Samia Suluhu Hassan faces first electoral test

Opposition members accuse President Samia Suluhu Hassan of cracking down on dissent to stay in power.